The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and actualizer. He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen.
The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.
The key to unlock your entrepreneurial spirit is your imagination.
Fourth, to assure every entrepreneur and every job creator that their investments in America will not vanish as have those in Greece, we will cut the deficit and put America on track to a balanced budget.
My message to students is that if you want to become an entrepreneur and save the world, definitely don’t skip college. But go to a school that you can afford. You’ll be freed from the chains of debt and succeed on your own ambition and merit.
To any entrepreneur: if you want to do it, do it now. If you don?t, you?re going to regret it.
I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn’t really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.
Growing up in a family of doctors, I wanted to be a brain surgeon for a while. But ultimately, I get most excited about creating things, which is why I decided to become an entrepreneur.
I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last… Whether it’s tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.
In America, everybody thinks they’re an entrepreneur. That’s the problem. It’s not a title that anybody should call oneself.
I?m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.
At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining.
Any self-respecting entrepreneur has borrowed money from their mother at some point.
I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny.
What does an entrepreneur do? The first thing is they’ve given themselves permission to see a problem. Most people don’t want to see problems… Once you see a problem and you keep looking at it, you’ll find an answer.
If you want to be an entrepreneur, it’s not a job, it’s a lifestyle. It defines you. Forget about vacations, about going home at 6 pm – last thing at night you’ll send emails, first thing in the morning you’ll read emails, and you’ll wake up in the middle of the night. But it’s hugely rewarding as you’re fulfilling something for yourself.
What I’ve learned in my career is that it takes the same amount of effort to build a $10bn company as it does a $1bn company; you as the entrepreneur are going to put your entire life, your entire effort into it.
I’ve been lucky enough to be involved in a number of great startups, including eBay and Wikia as an entrepreneur and LinkedIn and Paypal as an investor.
I love the incredible variety of demands directing makes on you, from the entrepreneur to the hustler to the deal-maker to the writer; to directing actors and the camera and working with music, sound, marketing and promotion. It uses so many sides of your brain.
People always ask is it hard being an entrepreneur and a mum, and the answer is ‘yes.’
The heart of the entrepreneur can beat freely in anyone.
I think a great entrepreneur is learning every day. An entrepreneur is somebody that doesn?t take no for an answer ? they?re going to figure something out. They also take responsibility. They don?t blame anybody else. And they?re dreamers in one sense but they?re also realistic and they take affordable steps when they can.
For an entrepreneur: wealth invites fame. For a celebrity: fame invites wealth.
I have this ratio that if you divide age of entrepreneur by market cap of company. For Facebook it’s one. Every year of his life Zuckerberg has been making $1 billion for investors.
If you’re an entrepreneur and you’re starting a company, I think the first thing you do is you go and talk to a bunch of people. But then the next thing you probably should do is figure out if there’s a broader demand than just people you know. That’s where I think SurveyMonkey is pretty valuable to people.
As an entrepreneur, if you’re the originator, you need to be faster than ever.
Being an entrepreneur is tough. Really, really tough.
Part of the challenge of being an entrepreneur, if you’re going for a really huge opportunity, is trying to find problems that aren’t quite on the radar yet and try to solve those.
Entrepreneur, if you’re going to start up, make sure you start up with excellence in mind.
Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production.
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