Entrepreneur Quotes - Page 35

• Entrepreneurs need to be positive. Always. Entrepreneurs need to be brave, often. And lastly, entrepreneurs need to be obsessed.

  Ronnie Apteker

  Brave, Being Positive, Needs

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• Well you'd see a very dramatic change in the perspective of small businesses, entrepreneurs, middle-size businesses, and perhaps even some large multinationals. They'd say, you know what, America looks like a good place to invest again, a good place to take risk, a good place to hire again.

  Mitt Romney

  America, Perspective, Risk

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• We demonstrated what you could do when a band of entrepreneurs settles an empty country with vast resources. The Chinese have a billion people and are running out of water. Tougher problem for sure.

  Charles R. Morris

  Running, Country, People

  Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. December 17, 2012.

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• Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier.

  Paula Nelson

  Success, Decision, Becoming

  Paula Nelson (1977). “The Joy of Money: The Woman's Guide to Financial Freedom”, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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• Before you dismiss a beginner's work, remember how much you sucked when you started. You probably sucked worse, actually.

  Jason Fried

  Life, Beginners, Remember

  Twitter post from Feb 6, 2014

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• What business entrepreneurs are to the economy, social entrepreneurs are to social change. They are the driven, creative individuals who question the status quo, exploit new opportunities, refuse to give up, and remake the world for the better.

  David Bornstein

  Giving Up, Opportunity, Creative

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• According to the management expert Peter F. Drucker, the term "entrepreneur" (from the French, meaning "one who takes into hand") was introduced two centuries ago by the French economist Jean-Baptiste Say to characterize a special economic actor-not someone who simply opens a business, but someone who "shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield." The twentieth-century growth economist Joseph A. Schumpeter characterized the entrepreneur as the source of the "creative destruction" necessary for major economic advances.

  David Bornstein

  Hands, Two, Yield

  David Bornstein (2004). “How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas”, p.2, Oxford University Press, USA

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• At the end of our lives we all ask, did i live? Did i love? Did i matter?

  Brendon Burchard

  Matter, Ends, Our Lives

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• It's simple until you make it complicated.

  Jason Fried

  Simple, Complicated

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• The Obama administration believes in experts and blue-ribbon panels. They believe in creating new agencies and boards. They believe in all that, but they just don't trust the entrepreneur's ability to grow her own business and to create jobs.

  Sher Valenzuela

  Jobs, Believe, Blue

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• The only right reason to be an entrepreneur is to change the world.

  Phil Libin

  World, Changing The World, Reason

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• I pay for things cause I want that slight edge over others.

  Yanik Silver

  Causes, Want, Pay

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• Too many start up business fail simply because their owners continue to think and act like employees.

  Michael LeBoeuf

  Thinking, Failing, Owners

  Michael Leboeuf (1997). “The Perfect Business”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• There are many wrong reasons to want to be an entrepreneur. I think there's only one good reason: to change the world.

  Phil Libin

  Thinking, World, Want

  "The Only Good Reason to Launch a Company" by Phil Libin, www.inc.com. January 22, 2013.

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• In general, I think what Donald Trump's message is, is: I'm a very practical, execution-oriented entrepreneur who built a successful business. I've demonstrated an ability to go global with my business. I can get along with a lot of different people. There are certain problems in the United States right now born from faulty policy. So what is happening right now is the lower and middle class are being left behind by the globalization and by the global elite. I think that's basically his message, and Bernie Sanders' is similar.

  Anthony Scaramucci

  Successful, Thinking, Class

  Source: gawker.com

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• Is it more fascinating, perplexing, unbelievable that women are entrepreneurs?

  Reese Witherspoon

  Unbelievable, Fascinating

  "Reese Witherspoon on How She's Shaking Up Hollywood, and Why She Feels Like Gloria Steinem Told Her to Do Legally Blonde". Interview With Jennifer Siebel Newsom, www.glamour.com. October 29, 2015.

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• I am an entrepreneur and my goal is to create invention to the solution of human trafficking and extreme poverty.

  David Batstone

  Goal, Poverty, Human Trafficking

  Source: forums.juniper.net

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• Since there are a wide range of entrepreneurs fundraising at any given time, I looked at each opportunity as it has arisen and on its own merits. Then I've sat down with my financial advisers, we've looked at the numbers and gone for the businesses I believe have real potential.

  Andy Murray

  Real, Believe, Opportunity

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• You've got the principled people who maybe are on salaried jobs, or CEOs, entrepreneurs, and all of those that are great people, but if you're not appealing - the permanent coalition is to join that with traditional Americans who feel like, that things aren't going well for them, and to develop policies that improve their lifestyle, not just upper-income lifestyles. And once that's believed by working people, that it's serious and a commitment and you care about people like me, for a change, Republicans could create a new majority.

  Jeff Sessions

  Jobs, Commitment, People

  Source: www.politico.com

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• We'll have a national dispute - debate about it, and the goal should be to bring in - to help respectfully appeal to those voters that can make the difference, the ones who are not going to be entrepreneurs, are never going to be - run a - be a CEO in some big business, and they know it, but they would like to have their Social Security, they would like to have Medicare as they paid for all their years, and they'd like rising wages rather than falling wages.

  Jeff Sessions

  Running, Fall, Years

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Entrepreneurs are the seekers of solutions, and that they will go into these places where both market and traditional aid has failed or traditional charity has failed.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Charity, Aids, Solutions

  "The Marriage of Love & Power: Conversation w/ Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

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• By going from the bottom-up again, we see where successes work, and you can also see where the status quo can be the biggest obstacle or roadblock to success. The kind of entrepreneurs in whom we need to invest are the kind who are willing to fight that status quo, bureaucracy, complacency, and corruption.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Fighting, Needs, Complacency

  "The Marriage of Love & Power: Conversation w/ Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

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• All successful people - not just entrepreneurs - have got things wrong over and over again before finding the right solution.

  Richard Branson

  Successful, People, Findings

  "'Our obsession with ownership is at a tipping point': As he gives £1m to UK start-ups Richard Branson reveals why he's backing the sharing economy". Interview with Eleanor Lawrie, www.dailymail.co.uk. June 30, 2016.

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• Failing can provide invaluable lessons and making mistakes and experiencing setbacks is part of the DNA of every successful entrepreneur.

  Richard Branson

  Mistake, Successful, Dna

  "'Our obsession with ownership is at a tipping point': As he gives £1m to UK start-ups Richard Branson reveals why he's backing the sharing economy". Interview with Eleanor Lawrie, www.dailymail.co.uk. June 30, 2016.

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• I also know, as an entrepreneur myself, you face new obstacles every day and you need to have the perseverance to see them through.

  Richard Branson

  Perseverance, Needs, Faces

  "'Our obsession with ownership is at a tipping point': As he gives £1m to UK start-ups Richard Branson reveals why he's backing the sharing economy". Interview with Eleanor Lawrie, www.dailymail.co.uk. June 30, 2016.

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