Quotes on Entrepreneur

The reason why most people face the future with apprehension instead of anticipation is because they don't have it well designed!

If you don't take risks you won't achieve anything.

There's a huge difference between achieving to be happy and happily achieving.

Entrepreneurs must love what they do to such a degree that doing it is worth sacrifice and, at times, pain. But doing anything else, we think, would be unimaginable.

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

The day before something is a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea.

The idea of an entrepreneur is really thinking out of the box and taking risks and stepping up to major challenges.

Thinking about how disturbingly herdlike people become in so many different contexts - mimetic theory forces you to think about that, which is knowledge that's generally suppressed and hidden. As an investor-entrepreneur, I've always tried to be contrarian, to go against the crowd, to identify opportunities in places where people are not looking.

What differentiates the success stories from the failures is that the successful entrepreneurs had the foresight, the ability, and the tools to discover which parts of their plans were working brilliantly and which were misguided, and adapt their strategies accordingly.

A company's culture is the foundation for future innovation. An entrepreneurs job is to build the foundation

An entrepreneur isn't someone who owns a business, it's someone who makes things happen.

You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.

An entrepreneur is not what you call yourself, it's what someone calls you in recognition of what you've achieved. I call Richard Branson an entrepreneur. Rupert Murdoch called me one. Anybody who stands up and says: 'I'm an entrepreneur' needs shooting. You'll drive people crazy.

Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple.

Engage your emotions at work. Your instincts and emotions are there to help you.

Microloans enable the poor to lift themselves out of poverty through entrepreneurship.

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.

Being an entrepreneur isn’t just a job title, and it isn’t just about starting a company. It’s a state of mind. It’s about seeing connections others can’t, seizing opportunities others won’t, and forging new directions that others haven’t.

It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers,the people, the common man,prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to serious books, and that governments prefer guns to butter. The entrepreneur does not make greater profits in selling bad things than in selling good things. His profits are the greater the better he succeeds in providing the consumers with those things they ask for most intensely.

Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don't do it.

God has the tough end of the deal. What if instead of planting the seed you had to make the tree? That would keep you up late at night, trying to figure that one out.