Entrepreneurial Quotes - Page 7

• I'm hoping that my entrepreneurial side will have me at a place where I don't have to do anything. That's what I'm striving for.

  Mary J. Blige

  Sides, Strive

  "Mary J. Blige Interview THE HELP". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 10, 2011.

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• The entrepreneur in us sees opportunities everywhere we look, but many people see only problems everywhere they look. The entrepreneur in us is more concerned with discriminating between opportunities than he or she is with failing to see the opportunities.

  Michael Gerber

  Opportunity, People, Decision

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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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• [We need] to nurture the entrepreneurial spirit and the tremendous untapped potential in our prisons.

  Jeff Smith

  Motivation, Inspiration, Needs

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• Clearly in the eyes of the consumer; the brand has not been diluted, but we must guard against that happening at all costs.

  Richard Branson

  Eye, Cost, Consumers

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• We don't actually plan to launch new businesses over the next few years, but we are planning to take the ones we have into new territories.

  Richard Branson

  Years, Territory, Next

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• Oftentimes, churches are started by an entrepreneurial church plant visionary whom everybody follows, but he's not following anybody. Even though he's "accountable to a board," he's really not. Authority's a good thing, and if it's not forced upon you as a leader, then I suggest, strongly, that you go buy some.

  Henry Cloud

  Leader, Church, Boards

  "The Composition of Integrity - Henry Cloud Interview". Interview with Paul Braoudakis, willowcreek.org.uk. November 10, 2010.

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• To prepare youth for success in entrepreneurial (and free) cultures, education tends to emphasize originality, creativity, breadth, depth and leadership skills rather than rote memorization, standardized curricula or socialization. The latter skill set is vital in societies with strong upper classes employing the lower castes, but the former is essential to free democratic nations.

  Oliver DeMille

  Strong, Creativity, Class

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• I think a very good system in a world with a lot of passive investors is one in which there are at least a few entrepreneurial investors, prepared to say what they think, prepared to propose a change in management, change in strategy, change in cost structure, capital structure.

  Bill Ackman

  Thinking, Cost, World

  "CNBC Exclusive: CNBC's Scott Wapner Interviews Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman from CNBC Institutional Investor Delivering Alpha Conference in NYC". "Closing Bell", www.cnbc.com. July 16, 2014.

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• The entrepreneurial instinct is in you. You can't learn it, you can't buy it, you can't put it in a bottle. It's just there and it comes out.

  Alan Sugar

  Bottles, Instinct

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• I never thought of myself as a sex symbol. I just do the cover of magazines. I think it’s really unfair men or people in the world think you can’t be both – you can’t be a sex symbol and a serious businessperson. Who says I can’t be both? Who says I can’t do the cover of Maxim and run a production company? Women are complex. Women are beautiful and intellectual and spiritual and social and entrepreneurial. They’re everything. And I think I’m a great example of that.

  Eva Longoria

  Beautiful, Running, Spiritual

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• Finding your entrepreneurial spirit and making it strong is more important than the idea or business you are developing.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Strong, Ideas, Important

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• Today's president, CEO or managing director needs to be a disruptive influence with imagination, vision, and courage to lead the organization into new and dangerous territory. The leader must be an entrepreneurial driver who can inspire the team to boldly venture into uncharted lands.

  Paul Sloane

  Leadership, Team, Organization

  Paul Sloane (2006). “The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills: Unlocking the Creativity & Innovation in You and Your Team”, p.11, Kogan Page Publishers

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• It's important to get in the habit of growing as a human being, developing and refining leadership and management skills and entrepreneurial instincts and changing to accommodate the times.

  Ivanka Trump

  Learning, Skills, Important

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

  Steve Chabot

  Development, Program, Funding

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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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• 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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• Every small business will give you an entrepreneurial way of looking at things. I guarantee you that for every plant that closes, if you gave it to one small-business person in that community, he or she would find a way to make it work. The small-business attitude is you always find a way to make it work.

  Hamdi Ulukaya

  Attitude, Giving, Community

  "Chobani Yogurt's Success Starts Where a Giant Left Off". Interview with Diana Ransom, www.entrepreneur.com. May 25, 2012.

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• All companies can benefit from fostering a more flexible environment (creating a place where the most talented, industrious, and entrepreneurial people want to work) and relinquishing hierarchical control to favor a results-oriented meritocracy.

  Maynard Webb

  Creating, People, Benefits

  "Meritocracy: Overcoming the Fear Factor" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2010.

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• I have reviewed literally hundreds of dotcoms in my drive to bring Boomer Esiason Foundation onto the Internet, and have selected ClickThings as a partner because of the advanced technology it offers small business, and its understanding of the entrepreneurial spirit of the small business community.

  Boomer Esiason

  Technology, Community, Understanding

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• A vision is something you see and others don't. Some people would say that's a pocket definition of lunacy. But it also defines entrepreneurial spirit.

  Anita Roddick

  Business, People, Vision

  Anita Roddick (1994). “Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop”, Three Rivers Press

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• We seem to forget that everything that is good for the environment is a job. Solar panels don't put themselves up. Wind turbines don't manufacture themselves. Houses don't retrofit themselves and put in their own new boilers and furnaces and better-fitting windows and doors. Advanced biofuel crops don't plant themselves. Community gardens don't tend themselves. Farmers' markets don't run themselves. Every single thing that is good for the environment is actually a job, a contract, or an entrepreneurial opportunity.

  Van Jones

  Running, Jobs, Business

  Van Jones (2013). “Rebuild the Dream”, p.187, Nation Books

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• The growth of entrepreneurial classes throughout the world is an asset in the promotion of human rights and individual liberty, and it should be understood and used as such. Yet peace is the first and most important condition for continued prosperity and freedom. America's military power must be secure because the United States is the only guarantor of global peace and stability. The current neglect of America's armed forces threatens its ability to maintain peace.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Military, Class, America

  "Campaign 2000: Promoting the National Interest" by Condoleezza Rice in Foreign Affairs, Volume 79, No. 1, www.foreignaffairs.com. January/February 2000.

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• If you want to get into a good entrepreneurial business, guillotines may be in fashion.

  Gerald Celente

  Fashion, May, Want

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