Quotes on Entrepreneur

If you're looking to become an entrepreneur then don't waste your time going to university or business school - just get on and do it.

My number one piece of advice is: you should learn how to program.

You can cut down a tree with a hammer, but it takes about 30 days. If you trade the hammer for an ax, you can cut it down in about 30 minutes. The difference between 30 days and 30 minutes is skills.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

When I came into the music, I was forced to be a CEO. I was forced to be an entrepreneur; I was forced to... because I was looking for a deal. I didn't have this grand scheme of starting a record company and then morphing into a clothing empire.

I hate the title of being called 'the richest woman in India,' but it's the recognition that this was the value that I had created as a woman entrepreneur, and that makes me very, very proud.

Some people read so little they have rickets of the mind.

There are no bad business and investment opportunities, but there are bad entrepreneurs and investors. To be a successful business owner and investor, you have to be emotionally neutral to winning and losing. Winning and losing are just part of the game. The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire, the size of your dream and how you handle disappointment along the way.

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

I think if you're open-minded, the road will take you where it takes you. If you're closed, you might not get to go where the road is heading.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

We romanticize entrepreneurshi p so much that people don't do the work. It's not just a dream, not just a goal; it's a lot of hard work. A lot of people are wantrepreneurs, not entrepreneurs.

You don't need to have a 100-person company to develop that idea.

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

The media wants overnight successes (so they have someone to tear down). Ignore them. Ignore the early adopter critics that never have enough to play with. Ignore your investors that want proven tactics and predictable instant results. Listen instead to your real customers, to your vision and make something for the long haul. Because that's how long it's going to take, guys.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.