I think I’m very much an entrepreneur, but I know I have the ability to start a company in a lot of ways than other people who are more qualified because I have this existing brand as an actress.
We listen to the entrepreneur. We try to have a fine tuning fork to understand what they are saying and whether that makes sense and know it when we see it. We don’t try to do too much predicting.
Entrepreneurs see what others can’t, do what others won’t, and accomplish what others dream.
I want to see a world in which every entrepreneur has access to the resources he or she needs to succeed, and where through the power of supportive communities – that means you and me – every resource can be made available.
Entrepreneur, either your brand is distinct or your brand is distant.
It is human nature, especially as we get older, to look for stability in our lives. But if you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you have to fight against that somewhat, as starting a business requires movement. You cannot stay still.
Even as a college professor at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford, I saw myself as an entrepreneur, and I went out, took risks, and tried to invent new things, such as participating in the DARPA Grand Challenge and working on self-driving cars.
I never knew anything other than wanting to be an entrepreneur. I tried my first business when I was 6 years old, and I started another business when I was 8. I don’t think I knew anything besides that.
Entrepreneur, the development of your daily discipline will determine then deliver your desired distinction.
There’s an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.
I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.
Never take both hands off the pump. As an entrepreneur, you need to be on constant lookout for opportunity, and that will involve risk. But you minimize those risks by keeping one hand on the pump that is producing for you.
It’s good to work for someone else. Because then you appreciate it more when you are an entrepreneur.
I’m an entrepreneur. ‘Ambitious’ is my middle name.
Entrepreneur, you’re either raising the bar of excellence or, you’re exhaling at the bar which is expensive.
An entrepreneur must deal with more uncertainty than a professional with a well-defined role.
I want to create an environment where I can create technology, get it into the hands of someone to market it, and move on to other technologies so I can keep innovating. I want to be a serial entrepreneur: Incubate an idea, get it to a good state, and make that an enabler to get to the next state. It’s every researcher’s fantasy.
I’m an accidental entrepreneur.
Everyone is an entrepreneur. The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur: an ability to fail, an ability to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on those ideas, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure.
Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.
I’m a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.
For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.
As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don’t get out of bed.
Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.
You must, as an entrepreneur – if that’s your position – be doing things that really move the needle.
We all have a little entrepreneur inside of us. Wanting to leverage it is what gives us an entrepreneurial spirit and an entrepreneurial mind. Actually doing it makes one an entrepreneur.
Narcissists only play for their own business, whereas Distortionists play with other?s business only to gain personal advantage. If you are both, then you aren?t an entrepreneur.
Society flourishes when people think entrepreneurally.
I’ll say this: I can’t think of one instance in my 20 years in venture capital in which I have wanted to sell a company before the entrepreneur.
As an entrepreneur, the pressures of a startup can be enormous, but it’s rarely life or death.
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