Quotes on Entrepreneur

Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hopes it opens before hitting the ground.

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

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

Faith is the ability to see things that don't yet exist. Faith, though, can turn difficulty into reality, positive reality.

In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don't make mistakes.

We in government should learn to look at our country with the eyes of the entrepreneur, seeing possibilities where others see only problems

It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

Late at night have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were meant to be? Are you a writer who doesn't write, a painter who doesn't paint, an entrepreneur who never starts a venture? Then you know what Resistance is.

Most of the time, creative entrepreneurs lose interest long before their marketing message loses its power.

Shortly after I met my mentor he asked me, ‘Mr. Rohn, how much money have you saved and invested over the last six years?’ And I said, ‘None.’ He then asked, ‘Who sold you on that plan?’

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.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

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.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

The road to success is always under construction.

My message to students is that if you want to become an entrepreneur and save the world, definitely don't skip college. But go to a school that you can afford. You'll be freed from the chains of debt and succeed on your own ambition and merit.

An Airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

There is a difference between broke and being poor. Being broke is a temporary economic condition, but being poor is a disabling frame of mind and a depressed condition of your spirit, and you must vow to never, ever be poor again.

People rarely buy what they need. They buy what they want.

Nothing can drag you down if you're not holding on to it.