Entrepreneur Quotes

As an entrepreneur you are often failing as much as you are succeeding. You are falling on your face as much as you are stepping up and moving forward. You need resilience to get up, re-gather, think of what you are going to do next, not letting that misstep pull you down. Next, you cannot be afraid of looking stupid or not being perfect. You have to be okay with sticking your neck out, being willing to fall down, and knowing that you are more measured over time about how you are getting back up.

There is something magical about putting a problem in writing. It is almost as though by writing about what is wrong, you start to discover new ways of making it right.

Learn from the negative as well as the positive, from the failures as well as the successes.

Some people take better care of their pets than they do themselves. Their animals can run like the wind and they can barely make it up a flight of stairs.

You don't have to be fearless. Just be sincere.

Civilization is the intelligent management of human emotions.

The formula is simple - do more of what is working, do less of what isn't, and try on new behaviors to see if they produce better results.

The problem with waiting until tomorrow is that when it finally arrives, it is called today.

Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can't get.

How did I end up right here wit you after all the things that I been through. It's been one of those days you try and forget about take a shot and let it out.

You never lose a dream, it just incubates as a hobby.

Most new jobs won't come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We've got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality.

I think that the spirit of America is still very much one of where people want to work hard and the majority of people want to work hard. They want to be entrepreneurs. But when you have that all taken away with government regulation or with government overbearance of taxation, you start to wonder whether if it's even worthwhile because who are you really working for? Are you working for yourself, are you working for the government? In the end, this wealth distribution scheme that's at the heart of the current political administration is an inherently wrong one.

Success as I see it is a result, not a goal.

As all entrepreneurs know, you live and die by your ability to prioritize. You must focus on the most important, mission-critical tasks each day and night, and then share, delegate, delay or skip the rest.

When somebody shares, everybody wins.

Even as the government dominates the headlines, private entrepreneurs are busy every day working to improve products and services that improve our lives. They do it without taxing us or regulating us, or making us suffer through tedious elections or political debates. They make their products and offer them to us in a way that pleases the consuming public the most. We can choose whether we want them or not.

When you work, work. When you play, play. Don't mix the two.

Anyone who wants to be an entrepreneur like someone else is actually looking in the wrong direction. You don't look out for inspiration, you look in. You have to ask yourself how can I be better today, at solving the problem I am trying to solve for my company. I wouldn't encourage anyone to be like me. Just be like you.

Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.

All values must be won by contest, and after they have been won, they must be defended.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

A real businessman or entrepreneur has no enemies. Once he understand this, the sky's the limit.

Branding jails corporate America but honesty sets entrepreneurs free.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

It takes time to build a corporate work of art. It takes time to build a life. And it takes time to develop and grow. So give yourself, your enterprise, and your family the time they deserve and the time they require.

In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Neglect starts out as an infection then becomes a disease.

If you are willing to look at another person's behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person. then you will, over a period of time, cease to react at all.

Only human beings can reorder their lives any day they choose by refining their philosophy.

Something will master and something will serve. Either you run the day or the day runs you; either you run the business or the business runs you.

The world is a big place. There are lots of smart people in it. Entrepreneurs are kidding themselves if they think they have any kind of monopoly on knowledge. And, sure as I'm a Macintosh user, on the same day that an entrepreneur tells this lie, the venture capitalist will have met with another company that's doing the same thing.

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

Alas! those good old days are gone, when a murderer could wipe the stain from his name and soothe his trouble to sleep simply by getting out his blocks and mortar and building an addition to a church.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

I did what I think a lot of entrepreneurs do. I started putting up a lot of ads on Craigslist for interns.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

I actually think being an entrepreneur is a state of mind. If you're going to be an entrepreneur, my thesis is that you have to sacrifice everything for some period in your life to be successful. You have to be myopic and completely focused and unbalanced in every way. Once you've achieved success, you're free to do whatever you like.

I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work.

With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge - we'll make it a thing of the past.

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.

In the world of today, I think that entrepreneurs are the new emerging ruling class - I identify it as the startup class. That's the new proletariat of the 21st century. These are the people that are the drivers of the change.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.