There are lots of things that I will probably never experience in this life. Military combat. Being dictator of a small central American country. Dunking a basketball. Being a famous rock star. Or walking on Mars. But one thing I have been, and will always be, is an entrepreneur.
You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck – and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee – or you can go out and become an entrepreneur.
Obviously, many people may remember me as the first winner of ‘The Apprentice,’ but prior to that, I was an entrepreneur. I started my first business when I was in college, and then getting my lucky break was when Donald Trump hired me on.
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.
I don’t consider myself a social entrepreneur, but I’m thrilled to be doing good, if that’s what I’m doing.
Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.
The key to finding financial freedom is to unlock your entrepreneurial intelligence, work your network and lead the time.
Without question, the single most important attribute of a successful entrepreneur is integrity. And that’s not some philosophical or theoretical malarkey; it’s hard-nosed fact.
Opportunists seek for a chance. Entrepreneurs make new chances.
For almost the first year of The Muse’s life, I would do 5 to 8 networking events a week. And I don’t necessarily think that’s the right path for everyone, but I realized that as an entrepreneur, one of my strengths was finding the right people who could help us. I didn’t come into startups with any network.
Being an entrepreneur is my dream job, as it tests ones tenacity.
I’ve gotten more press than any entrepreneur could dream of – certainly more than I deserve – and I’ve never had a public relations firm working for me.
Entrepreneurs see the “no diving” sign and back-up to get a running start.
You can never be satisfied as an entrepreneur, and the basis of any successful, growing business is new clients.
Growing up in a group home, and with an undiagnosed learning disability to boot, the odds of success were not on my side. But when I joined the high school football team, I learned the value of discipline, focus, persistence, and teamwork – all skills that have proven vital to my career as a C.E.O. and social entrepreneur.
I think if you’re an entrepreneur, you’ve got to dream big and then dream bigger.
As a new entrepreneur, you need a stake in the game, but you can’t risk it all.
Anyone who wants to be an entrepreneur like someone else is actually looking in the wrong direction. You don’t look out for inspiration, you look in. You have to ask yourself how can I be better today, at solving the problem I am trying to solve for my company. I wouldn’t encourage anyone to be like me. Just be like you.
Every entrepreneur talks about the passion you have for your work, and I think that’s what’s missing with a lot of women in business.
I have to prioritize: father first, and then a pastor and a recording artist and entrepreneur. I try to put everything in proper perspective, and then the proper priority.
The one thing all entrepreneurs have in common is that they started. The one thing everyone else has in common is that they haven?t.
Entrepreneurship isn’t about luck, it’s about vision, time management, creativity, determination and goals.
Being an entrepreneur means the ability to think out of the box by putting away our fear of any risk, including financial.
I’m an optimist. You can’t be an entrepreneur if you’re not essentially an optimist, so I’m an optimist by nature.
To be an entrepreneur in Europe, there is a stigma attached to it. There’s a reason why England is known as a nation of shopkeepers. Part of it is the idea that it’s better to have a shop and keep it up and running than close the doors and try to do something much more significant.
Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That’s the classic great entrepreneur.
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
Entrepreneurs adopt the ways of the adept and adapt to a changing environment. Actually, entrepreneurs are more enterpreneurs, because they are forever entering into new territory.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It?s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.
Who’s more likely to succeed – someone with high skill and no ambition, or no skill and high ambition? If you’re an entrepreneur, you can hire as many skilled people for your business as you want.
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