Entrepreneur Quotes - Page 34

• Successful entrepreneurs figure out when to drive their ideas forward and when to listen to constructive criticism.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Successful, Ideas, Criticism

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• The reason I do Shark Tank isn't to try take make more money of the deals, even though every deal I want to make money off of and even more so I want the entrepreneurs to be very successful and make money, but Shark Tank sends a message to everybody that the American Dream is alive and well.

  Mark Cuban

  Dream, Successful, Sharks

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• In the information age, the richest people are entrepreneurs. We may not become a king or queen, but we can all be entrepreneurs.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Kings, Queens, People

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Dec 21, 2012

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• ...most entrepreneurial types are free-wheelers who like to do a variety of things and do not enjoy routine tasks. But a smart entrepreneur will eventually learn that while ideas start businesses, organization makes them successful.

  Larry Burkett

  Smart, Successful, Organization

  Larry Burkett (1998). “Business By The Book: Complete Guide of Biblical Principles for the Workplace”, p.36, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Superior quality is a prerequisite to entering the game. By definition, an entrepreneur is undercapitalized relative to the status quo. Therefore, if you enter a product that is either at parity with the leaders, or not as good, you won't even get to the starting line.

  Gary Hirshberg

  Games, Leader, Quality

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• The entrepreneur must be the best salesperson and marketer in his business.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Being The Best, Marketers, Salesperson

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• If you cannot sell, you cannot be an entrepreneur. If you cannot sell, you cannot raise money. if the thought of sales terrifies you, get a job at a dept. store and start there. Or get a job with a company like Xerox that requires that you go around to businesses and knock on doors. As your courage increases, you may want to try a company in network marketing or direct sales that is willing to train you.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Jobs, Doors, Marketing

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• For startups, SM is now crucial: it has never been cheaper and easier to reach one's customers. Entrepreneurs should thank God for Twitter, Facebook.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Thank God, Sms, Easier

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• Our Government is fostering economic growth in Kitchener, Cambridge and all of the Waterloo Region by investing in our innovative businesses. Today's announcement is a great example of how we are helping high-potential companies bring great ideas to market faster. Helping our entrepreneurs and original thinkers export their products and services to the rest of the world creates jobs, growth and economic prosperity here at home.

  Gary Goodyear

  Jobs, Home, Ideas

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• This is what I want for entrepreneurs, especially for women: to believe in themselves, to dream bigger, reach higher, and to achieve success beyond their wildest expectations.

  Kay Koplovitz

  Dream, Believe, Expectations

  Kay Koplovitz (2014). “Been There, Run That”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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• Economic growth creates jobs, and countries grow when they educate their people and pursue policies that encourage households to save, existing businesses to invest, and entrepreneurs to innovate and create new markets.

  Peter Blair Henry

  Country, Jobs, People

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• Google the phrase "the most hated man in America." And this guy is one of the first people to pop up. Martin Shkreli, aka Pharma Bro, a 32-year-old drug company entrepreneur and former hedge fund manager who has a lot of money and loves to talk about how he spends it.

  Joy-Ann Reid

  Men, Aka, Years

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I spend a lot of my downtime studying different businesses and learning from a lot of entrepreneurs when I'm not playing football. They can help me evaluate different ventures to see if they'll work. I was aggressive with my initial investments, trying to hit a homerun each time. But now, I'm stepping back and being more patient, giving them due diligence.

  Kamerion Wimbley

  Football, Giving, Trying

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• Creative avoidance is the type of procrastination that affects home business entrepreneurs the most. It is unconsciously filling our day with trivial, unimportant work.

  Rory Vaden

  Home, Procrastination, Creative

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• The franchise model is great, because most people who are entrepreneurial want flexibility and time to do what they love. A lot home business entrepreneurs struggle because they have to do everything.

  Rory Vaden

  Struggle, Home, People

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• f the government is going to put money into the automobile sector, it should break up GM and Chrysler as a condition of financial aid, and it should be even-handed in its treatment of start-up firms like Tesla, Miles, Fisker, and others. It would be terrible to kill the entrepreneurs who have taken great risks to bring new automotive technologies to market by pumping tax dollars into the behemoths that have done everything wrong for the last years.

  Denis Hayes

  Taken, Technology, Government

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Do more and understand that all wealth came from poor people either as the entrepreneurs or the consumers who buy the product that keeps the entrepreneurs in business.

  John Hope Bryant

  People, Wealth, Poor

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• China's economy became more complex. By now there is a large number of small- and medium-sized companies that work quite differently from big, state-owned enterprises. They don't follow any long-term business plan and don't rent office space for years to come. They start out and need an office right away, for a week, a month or half a year, and they want to be among other entrepreneurs like themselves.

  Zhang Xin

  Office Space, Years, Numbers

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Many Chinese entrepreneurs are now donating for education; others support foundations in health care and research. None of us wants to be the richest guy in the cemetery.

  Zhang Xin

  Support, Guy, Chinese

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm always an entrepreneur, but I'd probably be a teacher. I like teaching kids, whether that's tennis on the courts or history in the classroom.

  Boris Kodjoe

  Teacher, Teaching, Kids

  "Boris Kodjoe The ‘Addicted’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. October 7, 2014.

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• "Joy" is based, albeit loosely, on the life of Joy Mangano, an entrepreneur, inventor and QVC shopping network star with the mega-selling Miracle Mop. Jennifer Lawrence is excellent as Joy, but the film starts off on the wrong foot with woeful depictions of her background as the only sane person in her dysfunctional family.

  Kenneth Turan

  Stars, Shopping, Feet

  "'Joy' Sinks Into A Morass As Its Protagonist Faces Irritating Obstacles". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 25, 2015.

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• As all entrepreneurs will say, "surround yourself with good people". That is the hardest thing : finding good people.

  Ronnie Apteker

  People, Surround Yourself, Hardest

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• I think most entrepreneurs would refer to themselves as "accidental". No one looks for stress and pain. You stumble on to it.

  Ronnie Apteker

  Pain, Stress, Thinking

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• An entrepreneur needs to have values. Values that are wholesome.

  Ronnie Apteker

  Needs, Values

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• Entrepreneurs need to listen. They don't need to be good listeners (although it can only help) but they need to know when to listen.

  Ronnie Apteker

  Needs, Helping, Be Good

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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