Quotes on Entrepreneur

Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

The only source from which an entrepreneurs profits stem is his ability to anticipate better than other people the future demand of the consumers.

A business owner is the boss, but it's a job, a place that is stable and profitable. An entrepreneur is an artist of sorts, throwing his/herself into impossible situations and seeking out problems that require heart and guts to solve. Both are fine, but choose.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

You can listen to what people say, sure. But you will be far more effective if you listen to what people do.

There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur

Any successful entrepreneur knows that time is more valuable than money itself.

With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge - we'll make it a thing of the past.

Laissez faire does not mean: let soulless mechanical forces operate. It means: let individuals choose how they want to cooperate in the social division of labor and let them determine what the entrepreneurs should produce.

If you've got $25,000, $50,000, $100,000, you're better off paying off any debt you have because that's a guaranteed return.

What I do know, at least what I think I have learned from my experiences in business, is that when there is a rush for everyone to do the same thing, it becomes more difficult to do. Not easier. Harder.

I'm a believer that you accomplish much, much more with direct relationships than by using an intermediary. And that cash you keep in the bank can be the difference between staying alive as a small business, or not.

The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.

Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term.

You're competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome.

Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts.

Equanimity is calamity's medicine.

I don't invest anymore in entrepreneurs who don't have charisma.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

My advice for an entrepreneur just starting out is to differentiate yourself. Why are you different? What’s important about you? Why does the customer need you?