Quotes on Entrepreneurship

It is true that there is a fine line between entrepreneurship and insanity. Crazy people see and feel things that others don't. But you have to believe that everything is possible. If you believe it, those around you will believe it too.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

If you just work on stuff that you like and you're passionate about, you don't have to have a master plan with how things will play out.

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Iteration, not ideation, is the most important part of early stage entrepreneurship. You have to have a lot of ideas - a lot of bad ideas - if you want to end up with a good one.

When you talk about black entrepreneurship, you're talking about addressing the foundation of what's going on with our people when we don't have any financial power. Our basic needs aren't being met in a lot of cases, so there's no way we're going to be able to tap into our potential until we address those bottom-level base needs.

Entrepreneurship is about turning what excites you in life into capital, so that you can do more of it and move forward with it.

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.

I regularly take my entrepreneurship students out walking because I want to get them in the habit of noticing and thinking about what they notice. They have to leave their phones behind to learn the basic lesson: Be where you are.

You need to ask yourself, ‘Where do you want to work: startups, mid-size or large companies?’ If you find yourself debating the ‘startup versus large company’ choice you’ve already chosen the big company. Entrepreneurship isn’t a career choice it’s a passion and obsession.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.