I have always thought of myself as an inventor first and foremost. An engineer. An entrepreneur. In that order. I never thought of myself as an employee. But my first jobs as an adult were as an employee: at IBM, and then at my first start-up.
You know, being an entrepreneur is super hard work, and if you’re not passionate about what you’re doing, you’re probably not going to succeed.
An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.
Entrepreneur, your distinction can be found on Twitter, so, is your thought leadership impressing or depressing?
It would be wonderful to become what Oprah has become: she is in such a class of her own, as an entrepreneur, as a performer and an icon. The idea of building a series of programmes and choosing people that I think have talent to do them would be a very interesting idea. I would love to show that television can have soul, depth and range.
Entrepreneur, you’re either raising the bar of excellence or your exhaling at the bar which is expensive.
I think every entrepreneur in Canada owes the next generation a road map of how to do it again.
I’ve always defined myself not as a cartoonist, but as an entrepreneur. That was true before I tried cartooning. I always imagined cartooning would be how I got my seed capital. I always thought my other businesses would be the less dominant part of my life.
Unstructured play gives kids the space they need to tinker and take risks – both vital for the budding entrepreneur.
Entrepreneur, if your distinction isn’t angering the mediocre, it’s actually mediocre.
My transition from scientist to entrepreneur? Some would say that I still haven’t made that transition.
I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.
Entrepreneurship isn’t for everyone, and not everyone is going to be an entrepreneur, but women who turn to business, turn to economics, because there are people depending on them, I think that their creativity, their resilience, their spirit, embody what’s best about entrepreneurship.
I advise all of the entrepreneurs that I know to attend at least one entrepreneurship event every week. The worst thing an entrepreneur can do is to confine his or herself to a cubby hole.
Entrepreneurs are all unique. One way to build a business and turn it into a brand is to know who you are.
I’ve heard people say South Africans are arrogant, that they act no differently from their colonial masters. That needs to change. It’s in your business interest as an entrepreneur to form meaningful partnerships. That’s how you do well for your shareholders.
I have always been driven by the ambition to solve every problem I face, whether as a scientist, engineer or entrepreneur.
When you are an entrepreneur, you have founded your own firm, it is so easy to find that you exist – you are the main shareholder of your company; it is very easy to look at the stock market position of your company to know how rich you are.
There’s no single right place to be an entrepreneur, but certainly there’s something about Silicon Valley.
Every entrepreneur needs ideas, vision, and creativity – no matter what the product or service. Not only that, but the product should truly delight customers and become an essential part of their lives.
I want to be an entrepreneur too; I like the business side of things. When I was younger I wanted to be a vet or a tightrope walker. But I have no sense of balance and I can’t bear animals dying, so I abandoned both ideas.
Entrepreneur, your message, mindset and mandate is connected to your brand, business and brain.
As an entrepreneur, I try to push the limits. Pedal to the metal.
I’ve always been an entrepreneur, but it’s never been about the money. I like a challenge, the harder the better.
Entrepreneur, don’t just read history, write it so people can see the future in the present.
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
But while my inner voice was clearly telling me I was at my core an entrepreneur, it’s inconvenient to decide at twenty-three that you can’t really work for other people.
When I was coming up as an entrepreneur, I had to fight for everything I got, and there was no clear roadmap of how to be successful.
There are a lot of people building small ideas now. There’s an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.
I don’t like indecent, unearned wealth. But it is legitimate for an entrepreneur who has created something to make a good living.
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