Entrepreneur Quotes - Page 31

• Marketing, when done well, is about story telling.

  Evan Williams

  Marketing, Stories, Done

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• In 2007, Stanford Business School Advisory committee asserted that self awareness was the most important attribute a leader should develop. The challenge for the modern entrepreneur is to take that path.

  Kevin Kelly

  School, Self, Leader

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• How do entrepreneurs survive their early failures? They don't view their failures as failures - they view these experiences as feedback, and a prelude to future success.

  Kevin Kelly

  Views, Feedback, Prelude

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• It's not easy for an entrepreneur to find the time to blog. But for those who do it, it is a great tool to communicate with the various stakeholders in their business and build a reputation for thought leadership.

  Fred Wilson

  Tools, Reputation, Easy

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• The problem isn't that Silicon Valley is keeping women down or not doing enough to encourage female entrepreneurs. The opposite is true. No, the problem is that not enough women want to become entrepreneurs.

  Michael Arrington

  Opposites, Female, Valleys

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• Everywhere I go, I always look for creative entrepreneurs, whether it's artisans and craftsmen, small farmers and gardeners, or restaurateurs who use fresh, locally sourced ingredients. I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.

  Martha Stewart

  Self, Creative, Looks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The payouts for starting a business are just terrible when you account for risk. A tiny minority of entrepreneurs ever get rich. And the majority of entrepreneurs would probably make far more money, and have more stable personal relationships, if they just worked for someone else.

  Michael Arrington

  Risk, Majority, Minorities

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• Perhaps our most debilitating rut as a culture is a dependence on experts. Until we kick this dependency, how can we rise above the statistics and become a nation of entrepreneurs and leaders? The answer, as challenging as it is, is for entrepreneurs to show us the way, and to keep at it until more of us start to heed.

  Oliver DeMille

  Leader, Challenges, Experts

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• This is the crisis! Difficulty getting credit, slow growth, high unemployment, low consumer confidence-these are challenges entrepreneurs can overcome with hard work, smart risk and tenacious teamwork. This is precisely what entrepreneurs do!

  Oliver DeMille

  Teamwork, Smart, Hard Work

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• Lawyers can't tell you you can't do something. They can warn you about risks, and in extreme cases tell you that something is such a bad idea you'll need to get someone other than them to do it but the judgment call of whether the risk is worth it is the entrepreneur's.

  Bram Cohen

  Ideas, Risk, Needs

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• I think that my original drive as an entrepreneur was precisely that desire to get away from the image of the shipping magnate's son.

  Stelios Haji-Ioannou

  Son, Thinking, Desire

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Entrepreneurs are always taking feedback, especially from their customers, bankers, workers, and sales force. Without straightforward feedback, entrepreneurs cannot make sound decisions.

  Donald Trump

  Decision, Bankers, Sound

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• There is a clear connection between developing the skills and talents of young people, and our economic success as a province. Initiatives like the Make Your Pitch competition and the Ontario Social Impact Voucher help us nurture the next generation of business leaders. We will continue creating an inviting environment for our next generation of entrepreneurs, ensuring they develop the right skills needed to succeed in a globally competitive economy and build the future of Ontario.

  Brad Duguid

  Skills, Creating, Impact

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• The journey from employee to entrepreneur was a complex and taxing one for an immigrant like me.

  Ruchi Sanghvi

  Journey, Employee, Like Me

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• Entrepreneurship is the engine fuelling innovation, employment generation and economic growth. Only by creating an environment where entrepreneur- ship can prosper and where entrepreneurs can try new ideas and empower others can we ensure that many of the world’s issues will not go unaddressed.

  Klaus Schwab

  Ideas, Creating, Issues

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• An entrepreneur in debt is an entrepreneur in business.

  Duncan Bannatyne

  Debt

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• The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.

  Edward Abbey

  Vocabulary, Taught, Developers

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.46, RosettaBooks

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• The word entrepreneur is associated with success and adventure. From my life, the only thing I can tell you that's consistently associated with entrepreneurship is failure, and the only thing consistently associated with invention is frustration. There is a long road between the idea and the reality.

  Dean Kamen

  Adventure, Frustration, Reality

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• I think what people love about the Steve Jobs story is not just the track record at Apple, but that comeback story, that he was thrown out of Apple, came back and built the company even greater. And that perseverance is so important in terms of entrepreneurship. And nobody is a better role model for that, for all entrepreneurs all over the world than Steve Jobs.

  Steve Case

  Perseverance, Jobs, Thinking

  "What Does Future Hold for Tech World, Apple Without Jobs?". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2011.

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• Not to let anyone convince you that your dream, your vision to be an entrepreneur is something that you shouldn't do. What often happens is that people who are well meaning, who really care for us are afraid for us and talk us out of it.

  Cathy Hughes

  Dream, People, Vision

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• All human beings are entrepreneurs.

  Reid Hoffman

  Humans, Human Beings

  Ben Casnocha, Reid Hoffman (2012). “The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career”, p.3, Random House

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• A lot of entrepreneurs let ego get in the way. You've got to be the conductor. You can't play all the instruments yourself. You have to get others to work together.

  Bill Rancic

  Play, Ego, Working Together

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• Failure is important because the first time you win (or lose), it could be luck, it could be timing, or it could be talent. It's only after you fail once or twice and learn to rely equally on thought, analysis, and anticipation-in addition to speed, talent, and execution-that you can really call yourself an entrepreneur ... In the long run, it's mind over muscle, strategy over strength, and a healthy perspective-not just a lot of perspiration-that make someone a real success in his or her business and in the equally important rest of his or her life.

  Howard A. Tullman

  Running, Real, Winning

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• AT&T invented the cellular telephone, but saw no future in it. It takes entrepreneurs, who are angels of destruction, to take advantage of things which the inventor cannot or does not see.

  Lester Thurow

  Angel, Doe, Saws

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• A social entrepreneur is somebody who knows how to make an idea reality.

  Eboo Patel

  Reality, Ideas, Social

  Source: www.pbs.org

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