Lowe has broken from the Christianity of his parents, a faith that now seems hopelessly out of date. The meek shall no longer inherit the earth; the go-getters will get it and everything that goes with it. The Christ who went among the poor, the sick, the downtrodden, among lepers and prostitutes, really had no marketing savvy. He has been transfigured into a latter-day entrepreneur, the greatest superstar sales person of all time, who built a multinational outfit from scratch.
Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.
Problems are just businesses waiting for the right entrepreneur to unlock the value.
Any entrepreneur worth their salt knows that their brand is worthless if it doesn’t somehow contribute to society or the overall good of the planet.
Once in a while, I see my fellow TV investors praise a business just because they like the entrepreneur behind it. That kind of thinking might make you feel warm and fuzzy inside – but let’s get back to reality.
To become a distinguished entrepreneur, you need to have an undeniable, unquestionable and unmovable passion for your vision.
There is something indefinable in an entrepreneur, and I saw that in Steve,” he said. ” He was interested not just in engineering, but also the business aspects. I taught him that if you act like you can do something, then it will work. I told him, ” Pretend to be completely in control and people will assume that you are.
My advice is never let a publicist call you a ‘visionary.’ I’ve hung out with the visionaries at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. I’ve been a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur. I wouldn’t touch ‘visionary’ with a 10-foot pole.
I’m not really sure where it comes from, but every time I meet someone who says ‘I really want to be an entrepreneur’ but has no idea what they want to do, I really just think: ‘This person is totally aimless.’
I left Sudan when I was 25 or 26 years old. If I had stayed, I would never have ended up being an entrepreneur. You can have the qualities, but if you don’t have the environment, you just wither away. It’s like a fish: take it out of water, it will not survive.
I’m not a non-profit person. I think of myself as an entrepreneur who wants to work on global education.
Every venture capitalist says at some point, ‘I wish I could run this company myself’ – to be the entrepreneur instead of the investor.
I discovered early in my career as an entrepreneur that I’m not good at many things, and I said ‘I need help.’
Smart entrepreneurs learn that they must fail often and fast.
Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps.
I value an entrepreneur I can get behind and trust, because I know they are attempting to move forward in life.
Good entrepreneurs can manage, but no one but an entrepreneur can entrepreneur, let alone help build and lead the world’s community of leading social entrepreneurs and their top business entrepreneur allies.
I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% – still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.
An entrepreneur is born, when a person has more reasons to drive his dreams against his excuses.
An entrepreneur is someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.
I?m an entrepreneur at heart. I?m not afraid of starting up, starting over or even failing for that matter, because the fact that I try new things in itself is a victory.
We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality.
How I see my career is very much as an entrepreneur in the field of philanthropy.
Youngsters want to change world. Elders want to enjoy their works. The entrepreneur sells anything needed by both to win their desires.
As an entrepreneur, one of the biggest challenges you will face will be building your brand. The ultimate goal is to set your company and your brand apart from the crowd. If you form a strategy without doing the research, your brand will barely float – and at the speed industries move at today, brands sink fast.
Thinking big is only one part of being a successful entrepreneur.
I have lived the life of the entrepreneur, and so I know the pain they are feeling. I know the daily ups and downs they go through. You know, they have their highs and lows sometimes within a matter of hours in a day.
My father, an entrepreneur but hardly a technologist, was looking to buy a computer to ‘automate’ our family business. In 1981, he characteristically dove head first into computing and bought an Osborne I.
If anyone tells you that you’re too old to be an entrepreneur or that you have the wrong background, don’t listen to them. Go with your gut instincts and pursue your passions.
Kim Kardashian’s marriage to Kris Humphries famously lasted 72 days, and was reported in the tabloids as being all about the big bucks paid by magazines for the bridal photos: it is a spectacle of a bride-to-be as entrepreneur, not as romantic heroine; the groom, in this scenario, is nothing but a prop.
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