Entrepreneur Quotes

Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

I hate the title of being called ‘the richest woman in India,’ but it’s the recognition that this was the value that I had created as a woman entrepreneur, and that makes me very, very proud.

My son is now an ‘entrepreneur.’ That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job.

Anybody who is an entrepreneur is a person who essentially has impaired judgment. The odds of success are zilch.

I learned I’m not a good executive, I’m an entrepreneur and I’m creative. I have to go with my gut and do what I want to do.

It’s the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there’s nothing more powerful.

But as an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you’re confident that you’ll catch a bird flying by. It’s an act of stupidity, and most entrepreneurs go splat because the bird doesn’t come by, but a few times it does.

Becoming an entrepreneur was the furthest thing from my mind. I actually had an identity crisis when I realized I had become one.

Seeing the world around you clearly is a critical step in developing an idea for a business, carrying out that idea, and then thriving with an ongoing concern. Through choice, predilection, lack of education, impatience, or other causes, the entrepreneur lives, in a way, outside the mainstream.

Entrepreneur, you have to be known for something, not anything, but something specific, why? That’s your distinction.

To be an entrepreneur, be a doer first. it takes ?you? to be that!

If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker’s bet. Sure, some entrepreneurs make a lot of money, but if you calculate the amount of stress-inducing work and time it takes and multiply that by the low likelihood of success and eventual payoff, it is not a great way to get rich.

To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you’re a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.

I’m definitely a serial entrepreneur and a serial snacker. And when it comes to snacks, I’m more of a salty snacker, though I’ve been known to have a craving for sweets from time to time.

Today’s developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

The life purpose of the true social entrepreneur is to change the world.

Konosuke Matsushita was a visionary entrepreneur. He started working very young as a teenager, and he eventually created Panasonic to become a truly global company.

I have had some great successes and great failures. I think every entrepreneur has. I try to learn from all of them.

Entrepreneur – your last 20 tweets has to be about your brain, brand and business.

I think of myself more as a designer than a serial entrepreneur. As a designer, the easiest way to see that something happens is to start a company and then be the boss, and then people have to do what you say.

The IPO is no exit for the entrepreneur; it’s the start of purgatory.

I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold. No matter what I do – outside of sticking my tongue out – I tend to make money, and quite a bit in non-KISS stuff.

I’m an entrepreneur. I’m not a politician.

Imagine the world of mobile based on Nokia and Motorola if Apple had not been restarted by a missionary entrepreneur named Steve Jobs who cared more for his vision than being tactical and financial.

I consider myself an inventor first and an entrepreneur second. In real life, my hero is Thomas Edison. He was a great inventor, but also an outstanding entrepreneur who was able to sell his inventions to the masses. He didn’t just develop the light bulb; he invented the entire electric grid and power distribution system.

Nothing turns off an investor more than when an entrepreneur comes in with a ridiculous valuation.

As a young entrepreneur starting an enterprise company, be prepared for the fact that you’ll need to get involved in enterprise sales. Everyone wants to speak to the founder, and this is also how you’ll get feedback on your product. It’s worth bringing in early somebody with enterprise sales experience.

If you’re an entrepreneur, and you have a choice to go to a place where there are 250 VC firms or somewhere else where there might be one or two, you’re gonna go where all the money is.

About 10 million people start a business each year, and about one out of two will make it. The average entrepreneur is often on his or her third startup.

I enjoy what I do because it keeps evolving – when I was a cook, I wanted to be a chef de partie; when I was a chef de partie, I wanted to be a chef; when I was a chef, I wanted to be a restaurateur, and now I am a chef entrepreneur. I am still fulfilling my dream.