40 powerhouse entrepreneurship quotes
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A collection of quotes on entrepreneurship for those times when you need some inspiration.TRANSCRIPT
True innovation is coming up with a product that the customer didn’t even know they needed.
J. Paul Getty
American Industrialist
Don’t spend so much of time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity
Michel Dell
Founder Dell
Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.
Sean Parker
Famous Entrepreneur
What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone. Know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.
Dave Thomas
Founder, Wendy’s
Starting your own business is like riding a roller coaster. There are highs and lows and every turn you take is another twist.
The lows are really low, but the highs can be really high. You have to be strong, keep your stomach tight, and ride along with the roller coaster that you started.”
Lindsay Manseau
Photographer and entrepreneur
The one thing that I think is critical in the entrepreneurial spirit is that it’s all attitude. If you think you can, then you’re half way there. If you say, ‘I can’t,’ then you’re defeated
Debbi Fields
Founder, Mrs. Fields Cookies
It’s hard to do a really good job on anything you don’t think about in the shower.
Paul Graham
YCombinator co-founder
Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.
Michael Arrington
TechCrunch founder and co-editor
Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day
Joel Spolsky
Stack Overflow co-founder
An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.
Roy Ash
Co-founder of Litton Industries
Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t, so you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t
Anonymous
Very Well Said
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon seem inevitable
Christopher Reeve
American actor, director, producer, writer,
and lobbyis
Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production
Joseph A. Schumpeter
An American Economist
As an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you’re confident that you’ll catch a bird flying by.
Reed Hastings
CEO of Netflix
If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful
Jeff Bezos
CEO of Amazon
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily
Zig Ziglar
Best-selling author and motivational
speaker
Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming
Zig Ziglar
Best-selling author and motivational
speaker
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure
Paulo Coelho
The Brazilian author
An entrepreneur without funding is a musician without an instrument
Robert A. Rice Jr
Author of MMO Evolution
Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.
They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets
Victor Kiam
Owner of Remington Products
You must fall in love with what you do, because being an entrepreneur is a lot of hard work, and overcoming a lot of adversity.
Ken Field
Real Estate Magnate
The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect
Adam Osborne
American Entrepreneur
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps – we must step up the stairs
Vance Hayner
Christian Writer
When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue
Josh James
Omniture CEO and co-founder
The winning strategy in any start-up business is, 'Think big but start small
Carmen Busquets
Venezuelan Entrepreneur
Anyone with a great product to sell should never criticize competing products. Your product should sell on its own merit. Consumers want the best of the best, not the best of a bad situation
Steve Jobs
Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.
Anyone with a great product to sell should never criticize competing products. Your product should sell on its own merit. Consumers want the best of the best, not the best of a bad situation
Steve Jobs
Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.
Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow
Mary Anne Radmacher
An artist, an author and an Apronary
It's really rare for people to have a successful start-up in this industry without a breakthrough product.
I'll take it a step further. It has to be a radical product. It has to be something where, when people look at it, at first they say, 'I don't get it, I don't understand it. I think it's too weird, I think it's too unusual.'
Marc Andreessen
Founder, Netscape
About half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance
Steve Jobs
Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual
Natalie Clifford Barney
Playwright, poet and novelist