Entrepreneur Quotes - Page 40

• You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Dad, Party, Giving

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• At President Obama's direction, the U.S Department of Agriculture is working hard to unleash the power of America's innovators and entrepreneurs to build a green energy economy.

  Tom Vilsack

  Work, Agriculture, America

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• Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps.

  Fred Wilson

  Caring, Supportive, Helping

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• The more entrepreneurs in the world that are getting their ideas financed, the more great companies there are going to be that we can all invest in.

  Fred Wilson

  Ideas, World, Great Company

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• Kim Kardashian's marriage to Kris Humphries famously lasted 72 days, and was reported in the tabloids as being all about the big bucks paid by magazines for the bridal photos: it is a spectacle of a bride-to-be as entrepreneur, not as romantic heroine; the groom, in this scenario, is nothing but a prop.

  Naomi Wolf

  Magazines, Tabloids, Bucks

  "How chick-flicks are breaking the conventions of wedded bliss" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2012.

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• All human beings are born entrepreneurs. Some get a chance to unleash that capacity. Some never got the chance, never knew that he or she has that capacity.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Chance, Born, Capacity

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• In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they do not have the opportunities to turn their creativity into sustainable income.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Creativity, Opportunity, Order

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• The developing world is full of entrepreneurs and visionaries, who with access to education, equity and credit would play a key role in developing the economic situations in their countries.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Country, Keys, Play

  "Access to Quality Education" by Muhammad Yunus, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 26, 2013.

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• I try not to dwell on big mistakes but to move on when I make a mistake. I make mistakes most of the times and that's part of the risk profile being an entrepreneur. I guess one big mistake I did was not to start my own company earlier. I spent nine years working for others before starting Kazaa in 2000.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Mistake, Moving, Years

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• I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Real, Mean, Thinking

  "Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Talks to Diane Sawyer as Website Gets 500-Millionth Member" by Ki Mae Heussner, abcnews.go.com. July 21, 2010.

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• We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that's something we're proud of.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Moving, Jumping, Years

  "Startup School". Interview with Jason Kincaid, www.washingtonpost.com. October 24, 2009.

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• I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.

  Felix Dennis

  Artist, Routine, Businessman

  "Felix Dennis talks iPad poetry, Apple approvals and tablets for the elderly". Interview with Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2011.

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• Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected to run it. Control is mandatory.

  Felix Dennis

  Running, New Ventures, Rich

  Felix Dennis (2011). “The Narrow Road: A Brief Guide to the Getting of Money”, p.31, Penguin

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• Body piercing and baggy clothes express identity among black youth, and not just beginning with hip-hop culture. Moreover, young black entrepreneurs like Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs and Russell Simmons have made millions from their clothing lines.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Clothing Line, Black Youth, Clothes

  "Is Bill Cosby Right?". Book by Michael Eric Dyson, www.today.com. 2005.

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• Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department.

  Truman Capote

  Inspirational, Motivational, Bananas

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.61, Vintage

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• Apparently, sir you Chinese are far ahead of us in every respect, except that you don’t have entrepreneurs. And our nation, though it has no drinking water, electricity, sewage system, public transportation, sense of hygiene, discipline, courtesy, or punctuality, ‘’does’’ have entrepreneurs. Thousands and thousands of them. Especially in the field of technology. And these entrepreneurs—"we" entrepreneurs—have set up all these outsourcing companies that virtually run America now.

  Aravind Adiga

  Running, Business, Drinking

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.8, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience. But they don't. They are products of history and community, of opportunity and legacy. Their success is not exceptional or mysterious. It is grounded in a web of advantages and inheritances, some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky - but all critical to making them who they are. The outlier, in the end, is not an outlier at all.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Lying, Math, Opportunity

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• The thing that's wrong with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur

  George W. Bush

  Bushism

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• I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead.

  Anne Lamott

  Men, Calling, Understood

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• No matter how great a writer, artist, or entrepreneur, he is a mortal, he is fallible. He is not proof against Resistance. He will drop the ball; he will crash. That’s why they call it rewriting.

  Steven Pressfield

  Work, Artist, Balls

  Steven Pressfield (2014). “Do the Work!: Overcome Resistance and get ouf of your own way”, p.67, Black Irish Books

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• To stay vigorous, a company needs to provide a stimulating and challenging environment for all these types: the dreamer, the entrepreneur, the professional manager, and the leader. If it doesn't, it risks becoming yet another mediocre corporation.

  Howard Schultz

  Leader, Challenges, Risk

  Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang (1997). “Pour your heart into it: how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time”

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• When we love something, emotion often drives our actions. This is the gift and the challenge entrepreneurs face every day. The companies we dream of and build from scratch are part of us and intensely personal. They are our families. Our lives. But the entrepreneurial journey is not for everyone. Yes, the highs are high and the rewards can be thrilling. But the lows can break your heart. Entrepreneurs must love what they do to such a degree that doing it is worth sacrifice and, at times, pain. But doing anything else, we think, would be unimaginable

  Howard Schultz

  Dream, Pain, Heart

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• In terms of formal education, I may somewhat lacking. I never finished school. I am a self-taught entrepreneur, that's the best kind there is, trust me

  Aravind Adiga

  School, Self, Taught

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.9, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Entrepreneurship rests on a theory of economy and society. The theory sees change as normal and indeed as healthy. And it sees the major task in society – and especially in the economy – as doing something different rather than doing better what is already being done. This is basically what Say, two hundred years ago, meant when he coined the term entrepreneur.

  Peter Drucker

  Years, Two, Creative

  "Innovation and Entrepreneurship".

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• The vocation of pastor has been replaced by the strategies of religious entrepreneurs with business plans.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Religious, Strategy, Pastor

  "The Pastor: A Memoir". Book by Eugene H. Peterson, 2011.

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