Entrepreneur Quotes - Page 32

• I made the decision (that), if I was gonna do this, I was gonna do it 100% because before in my life I had been an entrepreneur. It was weird. I would wake up in the morning (saying) "You know what? I'm gonna do this." (I'd) set out (and) in three months (I'd) have a new business on its way. I didn't stop and think about the repercussions of anything. I just did it. I moved forward in doing it to succeed.

  Drew Waters

  Morning, Thinking, Decision

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I had so many other things I could fall back on as an entrepreneur (with multiple businesses). When I finally was true to myself and what I wanted to do - and acting was it - there was nothing else I could think of. I thought "If I fail, I'm falling hard (because) I don't have anything else to fall back on. Am I going to accept that?"...I never looked back. I never (let myself) put it in my mind to fail.

  Drew Waters

  Fall, Thinking, Mind

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I didn't really know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down. I was a very public failure.

  Steve Jobs

  Focus, Adults, Generations

  "'You've Got to Find What You Love,' Jobs Says". Commencement address at Stanford, news.stanford.edu. June 12, 2005.

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• Without question, the notion of the doctor as a legitimate fee-for-service entrepreneur, making his fortune from misfortunes of his patients, is old-fashioned, distasteful, and doomed.

  Michael Crichton

  Doctors, Patient, Fortune

  Michael Crichton (1970). “Five Patients: The Hospital Explained”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage.

  Mark McKinnon

  Law, America, Self

  "America’s Artists Are the Ultimate Entrepreneurs: Let’s Give Them a Hand" by Mark McKinnon, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2011.

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• ...countries don't create economies. It is entrepreneurs and companies that create and revitalize economies. The role of the governments should be to create a nourishing environment for entrepreneurs and companies to flourish, not to get in the way of economic development.

  John Naisbitt

  Country, Government, Roles

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• What is entrepreneurship, after all? Bigness is not the issue. Poor people are the ones who take challenges every day. The guy who sells a hot dog on the street is as much an entrepreneur as anyone else. Getting his $50 loan to start could be as difficult as finding $50 million for someone else. All people are entrepreneurs.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Dog, Issues, People

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• In times of recession there are massive opportunities and fortunes to be made, so for new up and coming entrepreneurs, this is the time to go and start a business.

  Richard Branson

  Opportunity, Made, Fortune

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• Outsiders think of Silicon Valley as a success story, but in truth, it is a graveyard. Failure.. is Silicon Valley's greatest strength. Every failed product or enterprise is a lesson stored in the collective memory of the country. We not only don't stigmatize failure, sometime we even admire it. Venture Capitalists actually like to see a little failure in the resumes of entrepreneurs.

  Michael Malone

  Country, Memories, Thinking

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• Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur... Eventually

  Ben Horowitz

  Successful, Yeah, Successful Entrepreneurs

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• 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.

  Michael Arrington

  Basketball, Country, Stars

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• There are so many opportunities to make a bad decision in building a robot company on top of all the normal ways that entrepreneurs screw up that it is incredibly difficult to truly create value because it is so cost-sensitive.

  Colin Angle

  Opportunity, Decision, Robots

  "iRobot CEO: Enough with the gimmick 'bots (Q & A)". Interview with Martin Lamonica, www.cnet.com. November 4, 2011.

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• We are the leaders that we have been waiting for. We are the social innovators and entrepreneurs that we have been seeking.

  Duane Elgin

  Leader, Waiting, Social

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• People who need certainty are unlikely to make good entrepreneurs.

  Peter Drucker

  People, Needs, Unlikely

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.41, Routledge

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• When I talk to entrepreneurs today, I feel like the grandfather who was in the Civil War.

  Marc Andreessen

  War, Grandfather, Today

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• Entrepreneurs constantly confuse what they do with who they are.

  Howard A. Tullman

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• Generally speaking, experience counts for something. So you'd expect entrepreneurs who've been through the ups and downs of a tech startup to have an advantage over the newcomers. Or at least have an equal chance at success. But in fact the opposite may be true. A number of venture capitalists I've spoken with have said that too many "old guard" entrepreneurs are not being bold enough in their business decisions, and it's hurting their startups.

  Michael Arrington

  Hurt, Opposites, Numbers

  "The Twice Shy Entrepreneur". techcrunch.com. December 9, 2007.

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• The university is a series of individual entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance about parking.

  Clark Kerr

  Together, Common, Individual

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• Management and entrepreneurship are only two different dimensions of the same task. An entrepreneur who does not learn how to manage will not last long. A management that does not learn to innovate will not last long.

  Peter Drucker

  Two, Long, Doe

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Management Challenges for the 21st Century”, p.33, Routledge

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• You can take the smartest kid at Wharton, the one who gets straight A's and has a 170 IQ, and if he doesn't have the instincts, he'll never be a successful entrepreneur.

  Donald Trump

  Kids, Successful, Instinct

  Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.45, Ballantine Books

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• Entrepreneurs are visionaries - they see things other people don't see.

  Anita Roddick

  People, Visionaries

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• A real entrepreneurs who do not need protection nets underneath

  Henry Kravis

  Real, Needs, Protection

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• I roll out of bed in the morning, whenever I want, and I work right away because, to me, that's the life. That's freedom. The whole point for me is that I love the freedom of being an entrepreneur that I do what I want to do when I want to do it.

  Lori Greiner

  Morning, Bed, Want

  "Shark Tank's Lori Greiner and Robert Herjavec on What Makes a Great Boss" by Kim Lachance Shandrow, www.foxnews.com. June 26, 2015.

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• Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.

  Tom Peters

  Memories, Views, World

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• The average for entrepreneurs is 3.8 failures before they finally make it in business.

  John C. Maxwell

  Average

  John C. Maxwell (2012). “The Complete 101 Collection”, p.315, Harper Collins

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