Entrepreneurial Quotes - Page 5

• The E Myth. Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.

  Michael Gerber

  Business, Mistake, Decision

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• Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Business, Opportunity

  FaceBook post by Richard Branson from May 09, 2016

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• Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

  Donald Trump

  Motivational, Money, Business

  Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz (2009). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.28, Ballantine Books

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• 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.

  Ross Perot

  Success, Dream, Encouragement

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• Some people were born to work for others. Not in a mindless, servile-way--rather they simply work better in a set regimen of daily tasks and functions. Others were born of the entrepreneurial spirit and enjoy the demands of self-determination and the roll of the dice.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Determination, Work, Self

  Richard Paul Evans (2001). “The Christmas Box Miracle: My Spiritual Journey of Destiny, Healing and Hope”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

  John Naisbitt

  Change, Society, Shifting

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• Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

  Abdul Kalam

  Leadership, Creativity, Young Generation

  Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (0101). “Enlightened Minds”, p.34, Prabhat Prakashan

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• I believe that drudgery and clock-watching are a terrible betrayal of that universal, inborn entrepreneurial spirit.

  Richard Branson

  Betrayal, Believe, Spirit

  Richard Branson (2010). “Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur”, Virgin

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• When you have an idea, a classic entrepreneurial impulse is to hold the idea close to you and not tell people and that's almost always a mistake.

  Reid Hoffman

  Mistake, Ideas, People

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• In the entrepreneurial world, when you launch a company, you have a particular idea, a particular product, a particular service, almost always you pivot, you shift. The market reacts to your initial idea. You make some adjustments. It's only after making a few adjustments that you see the success.

  Steve Case

  Ideas, World, Company

  "The Giving Pledge: A new club for billionaires". "The Giving Pledge" with Charlie Rose, www.cbsnews.com. November 17, 2013.

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• Remember: if the most unique ideas were obvious to everyone, there wouldn’t be entrepreneurs. The one thing that every entrepreneurial journey has in common is that there are many, many steps on the road to success.

  Tory Burch

  Unique, Journey, Ideas

  "Remarks to Babson College" by Tory Burch, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2014.

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• I would like to see additional funding for entrepreneurial development programs.

  Steve Chabot

  Development, Program, Funding

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• I am very lucky to live in California, which is not only filled with very entrepreneurial people who don't wait around for success, but who make their own.

  Benjamin Stone

  California, People, Waiting

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• I have always been very entrepreneurial minded. Oftentimes, while I was sitting in class listening to my professor ramble on, I would think to myself: I could be out there making money right now.

  Shay Carl

  Thinking, Class, Listening

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• I was 40-something years old. I hadn't shown any entrepreneurial spunk up until that point.

  Alex Blumberg

  Years, Spunk

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• This investment will provide capital to help high-potential start-up companies transition from product development to market entry, while also providing skills training to help them position themselves to be more attractive to investors and commercial partners. We are pleased to support the entrepreneurial community in southern Ontario and contribute to economic growth and job creation.

  Gary Goodyear

  Jobs, Skills Training, Support

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• ...most entrepreneurial types are free-wheelers who like to do a variety of things and do not enjoy routine tasks. But a smart entrepreneur will eventually learn that while ideas start businesses, organization makes them successful.

  Larry Burkett

  Smart, Successful, Organization

  Larry Burkett (1998). “Business By The Book: Complete Guide of Biblical Principles for the Workplace”, p.36, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Being both entrepreneurial and social is no longer an oxymoron, but rather a tautology.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Social, Tautology, Oxymoron

  Jeremy Rifkin (2014). “The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism”, p.19, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Entrepreneurship is the cornerstone to African development and the key to local value creation in Africa. I am determined to ensure that Africa's next generation of entrepreneurs have the platform they need to turn their entrepreneurial aspirations into sustainable businesses that will drive economic growth and job creation across Africa.

  Tony Elumelu

  Jobs, Keys, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Tony Elumelu from Mar 27, 2017

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• I have always been business minded, always been sorta an entrepreneurial guy; I played a character on Felicity that was modeled after me, actually.

  Greg Grunberg

  Character, Guy, Felicity

  "Interview: Greg Grunberg and August Trometer, Founders of Yowza, Action Heroes". Interview with John Biggs, techcrunch.com. July 10, 2009.

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• Developed countries will always welcome the Einsteins of this world - those individuals whose talents are already recognized and deemed to have value. This welcome doesn't usually extend to the poor and uneducated people seeking to enter the country. But the truth, supported by the facts of history and the richness of immigrant contribution to America's distinction in the world, is that the most entrepreneurial, innovative, motivated citizen is the one who has been given an opportunity and wants to repay the debt.

  Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

  Country, Opportunity, America

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• I have a profound dislike for showing off one's material wealth. This is insensitive and it is not what human hearts are made for. But what I like about China and sometimes miss in Europe is the entrepreneurial spirit of our young people, their ambition and dynamism.

  Zhang Xin

  Ambition, Heart, Europe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Most definitely always been a passion, and always been one of my goals in life as a young person, to have my own business. My dad gave us his entrepreneurial mindset, so that was also ingrained, as well as the tennis. So in a lot of ways it's a part of making my parents proud. I think we all want to make our parents proud, you know?

  Venus Williams

  Dad, Passion, Thinking

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• I'm more encouraged by the saplings: new music groups, tiny new venues, entrepreneurial musician-composers who aren't waiting to be discovered but are instead building their own Establishment.

  David Edelstein

  Waiting, Musician, Groups

  "Critics' Roundtable: What Was the Cultural Event of 2012?". www.vulture.com. December 2, 201.

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• The research that Noam Wasserman has assembled here can help entrepreneurial companies who want to prepare well for their future. The Founder's Dilemmas is a must-read for anyone thinking about starting a business.

  Timothy C. Draper

  Thinking, Research, Want

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