Entrepreneur Quotes - Page 31

• A lot of entrepreneurs let ego get in the way. You've got to be the conductor. You can't play all the instruments yourself. You have to get others to work together.

  Bill Rancic

  Play, Ego, Working Together

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• Not to let anyone convince you that your dream, your vision to be an entrepreneur is something that you shouldn't do. What often happens is that people who are well meaning, who really care for us are afraid for us and talk us out of it.

  Cathy Hughes

  Dream, People, Vision

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• Without question, the notion of the doctor as a legitimate fee-for-service entrepreneur, making his fortune from misfortunes of his patients, is old-fashioned, distasteful, and doomed.

  Michael Crichton

  Doctors, Patient, Fortune

  Michael Crichton (1970). “Five Patients: The Hospital Explained”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• AT&T invented the cellular telephone, but saw no future in it. It takes entrepreneurs, who are angels of destruction, to take advantage of things which the inventor cannot or does not see.

  Lester Thurow

  Angel, Doe, Saws

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• What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I didn't really know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down. I was a very public failure.

  Steve Jobs

  Focus, Adults, Generations

  "'You've Got to Find What You Love,' Jobs Says". Commencement address at Stanford, news.stanford.edu. June 12, 2005.

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• America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage.

  Mark McKinnon

  Law, America, Self

  "America’s Artists Are the Ultimate Entrepreneurs: Let’s Give Them a Hand" by Mark McKinnon, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2011.

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• In times of recession there are massive opportunities and fortunes to be made, so for new up and coming entrepreneurs, this is the time to go and start a business.

  Richard Branson

  Opportunity, Made, Fortune

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• Entrepreneurs constantly confuse what they do with who they are.

  Howard A. Tullman

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• Everywhere I go, I always look for creative entrepreneurs, whether it's artisans and craftsmen, small farmers and gardeners, or restaurateurs who use fresh, locally sourced ingredients. I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.

  Martha Stewart

  Self, Creative, Looks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The payouts for starting a business are just terrible when you account for risk. A tiny minority of entrepreneurs ever get rich. And the majority of entrepreneurs would probably make far more money, and have more stable personal relationships, if they just worked for someone else.

  Michael Arrington

  Risk, Majority, Minorities

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• This is the crisis! Difficulty getting credit, slow growth, high unemployment, low consumer confidence-these are challenges entrepreneurs can overcome with hard work, smart risk and tenacious teamwork. This is precisely what entrepreneurs do!

  Oliver DeMille

  Teamwork, Smart, Hard Work

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• Lawyers can't tell you you can't do something. They can warn you about risks, and in extreme cases tell you that something is such a bad idea you'll need to get someone other than them to do it but the judgment call of whether the risk is worth it is the entrepreneur's.

  Bram Cohen

  Ideas, Risk, Needs

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• The journey from employee to entrepreneur was a complex and taxing one for an immigrant like me.

  Ruchi Sanghvi

  Journey, Employee, Like Me

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• I think what people love about the Steve Jobs story is not just the track record at Apple, but that comeback story, that he was thrown out of Apple, came back and built the company even greater. And that perseverance is so important in terms of entrepreneurship. And nobody is a better role model for that, for all entrepreneurs all over the world than Steve Jobs.

  Steve Case

  Perseverance, Jobs, Thinking

  "What Does Future Hold for Tech World, Apple Without Jobs?". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2011.

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• I had so many other things I could fall back on as an entrepreneur (with multiple businesses). When I finally was true to myself and what I wanted to do - and acting was it - there was nothing else I could think of. I thought "If I fail, I'm falling hard (because) I don't have anything else to fall back on. Am I going to accept that?"...I never looked back. I never (let myself) put it in my mind to fail.

  Drew Waters

  Fall, Thinking, Mind

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• ...countries don't create economies. It is entrepreneurs and companies that create and revitalize economies. The role of the governments should be to create a nourishing environment for entrepreneurs and companies to flourish, not to get in the way of economic development.

  John Naisbitt

  Country, Government, Roles

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• What is entrepreneurship, after all? Bigness is not the issue. Poor people are the ones who take challenges every day. The guy who sells a hot dog on the street is as much an entrepreneur as anyone else. Getting his $50 loan to start could be as difficult as finding $50 million for someone else. All people are entrepreneurs.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Dog, Issues, People

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• Outsiders think of Silicon Valley as a success story, but in truth, it is a graveyard. Failure.. is Silicon Valley's greatest strength. Every failed product or enterprise is a lesson stored in the collective memory of the country. We not only don't stigmatize failure, sometime we even admire it. Venture Capitalists actually like to see a little failure in the resumes of entrepreneurs.

  Michael Malone

  Country, Memories, Thinking

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• Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur... Eventually

  Ben Horowitz

  Successful, Yeah, Successful Entrepreneurs

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• There are so many opportunities to make a bad decision in building a robot company on top of all the normal ways that entrepreneurs screw up that it is incredibly difficult to truly create value because it is so cost-sensitive.

  Colin Angle

  Opportunity, Decision, Robots

  "iRobot CEO: Enough with the gimmick 'bots (Q & A)". Interview with Martin Lamonica, www.cnet.com. November 4, 2011.

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• We are the leaders that we have been waiting for. We are the social innovators and entrepreneurs that we have been seeking.

  Duane Elgin

  Leader, Waiting, Social

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• People who need certainty are unlikely to make good entrepreneurs.

  Peter Drucker

  People, Needs, Unlikely

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.41, Routledge

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• When I talk to entrepreneurs today, I feel like the grandfather who was in the Civil War.

  Marc Andreessen

  War, Grandfather, Today

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• Generally speaking, experience counts for something. So you'd expect entrepreneurs who've been through the ups and downs of a tech startup to have an advantage over the newcomers. Or at least have an equal chance at success. But in fact the opposite may be true. A number of venture capitalists I've spoken with have said that too many "old guard" entrepreneurs are not being bold enough in their business decisions, and it's hurting their startups.

  Michael Arrington

  Hurt, Opposites, Numbers

  "The Twice Shy Entrepreneur". techcrunch.com. December 9, 2007.

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• The university is a series of individual entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance about parking.

  Clark Kerr

  Together, Common, Individual

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