Quotes on Entrepreneurship

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.

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.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started

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.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

I started The Body Shop in 1976 simply to create a livelihood for myself and my two daughters, while my husband, Gordon, was trekking across the Americas. I had no training or experience and my only business acumen was Gordon's advice to take sales of £300 a week. Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

We need to intentionally invest in health, in home ownership, in entrepreneurship, in access to democracy, in economic empowerment. If we don't do these things, we shouldn't be surprised that racial inequality persists because inequalities compound.

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

One of the myths you see in entrepreneurship is that people have this dream one night, wake up the next morning, and start building it. It's actually much more of an iterative process.

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

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

When it’s too easy to get money, then you get a lot of noise mixed in with the real innovation and entrepreneurship. Tough times bring out the best parts of Silicon Valley.

I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.

If you follow your passion, you'll never work a day in your life.

If you can't feed a team with two pizzas, it's too large.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.

Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.

The world must become aware of the fantastic transformational power of social entrepreneurship and the Foundation will work as a catalyst in this effort.