Entrepreneur Quotes - Page 39

• What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous.

  Peter Drucker

  Innovation, Society, Needs

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.313, Routledge

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• Social entrepreneurs come from all levels of society and from communities in nearly every country of the world. They all share the same underlying drive and passion to see their ideas through. Many of them have had a huge effect on the world, yet most people have not even heard of them - a trend we hope to change!

  Jeffrey Skoll

  Country, Passion, Countries Of The World

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• Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools - but they must be kept to a minimum.

  Jeffrey R. Immelt

  Confidence, Business, Self

  "The Fast Company Interview: Jeff Immelt". Interview with John R. Byrne, www.fastcompany.com. July 1, 2005.

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• What happens next is up to you.

  Chris Sacca

  Up To You, Next, Happens

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• Consuming is the opposite of producing.

  Noah Kagan

  Opposites, Consuming

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• Being an entrepreneur is not about being in love with an idea, it's about being in love with running a company.

  Max Levchin

  Running, Being In Love, Ideas

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• Increasingly, I'm inspired by entrepreneurs who run nonprofit organizations that fund themselves, or for-profit organizations that achieve social missions while turning a profit.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Running, Organization, Nonprofits

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• I usually tell people that everything I learned about being an entrepreneur I learned by f'ing up at my first company.

  Mark Suster

  People, Marketing, Firsts

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• I would say, as an entrepreneur everything you do - every action you take in product development, in marketing, every conversation you have, everything you do - is an experiment. If you can conceptualize your work not as building features, not as launching campaigns, but as running experiments, you can get radically more done with less effort.

  Eric Ries

  Running, Effort, Marketing

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• Central planning didn't work for Stalin or Mao, and it won't work for an entrepreneur either.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Planning, Mao, Central Planning

  Michael Bloomberg, Matthew Winkler (1997). “Bloomberg by Bloomberg”, Wiley

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• Only interested in himself and profiting from the war as an unscrupulous entrepreneur, and not in being a patriot: "I believe in Rhett Butler. He's the only cause I know. The rest doesn't mean much to me."

  Clark Gable

  War, Believe, Mean

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• Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Freedom, Liberty, Farmers

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.333, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.

  Ma Huateng

  Leader, May, Today

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• People can get information - on entertainment, politics, finance - much easier than before. That will change the way people do business, the way people live.

  Robin Li

  People, Information, Way

  "The man behind China's answer to Google: accused by critics of piracy and censorship". Interview with Jonathan Watts, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2005.

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• Where most entrepreneurs fail is on the things they don't know they don't know.

  Vinod Khosla

  Failing, Knows

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• An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true.

  Vinod Khosla

  Dream, Trying, Foolish

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• It is important in any population to have an ecosystem around start-up ideas to leverage the most out of them such an ecosystem needs developing and most of this is about giving entrepreneurs confidence.

  Vinod Khosla

  Ecosystems, Ideas, Giving

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• In business, there are times when you disagree, and sometimes it turns out that you're just plain wrong. Humor takes away tension and helps you realize you're wrong.

  Craig Newmark

  Helping, Sometimes, Realizing

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• Entrepreneurs are never satisfied. They want to do things better. They strive for perfection and use all the ingenuity to their command to achieve it.

  J. Willard Marriott

  Perfection, Use, Want

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• Some 80% of your life is spent working. You want to have fun at home; why shouldn't you have fun at work?

  Richard Branson

  Inspiring, Fun, Home

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• I think a lot of becoming an entrepreneur is something which people have to learn just from getting out there and giving it a go, and having to learn the art of survival.

  Richard Branson

  Art, Thinking, People

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• I've always learned on-the-job, in real time. A problem comes up; I research it, and try to solve it. You can't study to be an entrepreneur; you have to develop those skills day in day out. All entrepreneurial experiences are related, whether you're selling worm poop to Wal-Mart or a grade tracking application to the public elementary school system. In the end, it's all very similar.

  Tom Szaky

  Jobs, Business, Real

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• My half-baked reading of history is that we continue to go through these waves of entrepreneurial explosion followed by merger mania and consolidation. Out of that come big sluggish companies that eventually collapse under the weight of what they've created, and are killed off by the next wave of entrepreneurs.

  Tom Peters

  Business, Reading, Half

  "The Peters Principles: An Interview with Tom Peters". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. October 1997.

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• Business skills, when well applied, can do more than just make money. They can potentially make money and do some real good, which is immensely satisfying. To do that, it's important to think outside the box, take risks, and be an entrepreneur.

  Jeffrey Skoll

  Business, Real, Thinking

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• Once you know what you want and what is important for you to achieve, also define the values associated with it. What is important? That is something a lot of entrepreneurs pass by too quickly. For us, the things that were important were, No. 1, customer success. Nothing is more important to us than making sure every customer is successful in our service.

  Marc Benioff

  Business, Successful, Important

  "On the Record: Marc Benioff". San Francisco Chronicle Interview, www.sfgate.com. October 8, 2006.

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