Quotes on Entrepreneurship

Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Entrepreneurship is like a computer game in which you have to master every level before achieving success. Startups repeatedly stumble and have to go back to the drawing board. The best way to skip some levels and to increase the odds of survival is to learn from others who have already played the game.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

If it's important to you and you want to do it 'eventually', just do it and correct course along the way.

You get a culture of entrepreneurship after you have successfully changed the accountability system so that people can use a better process. Process drives culture, not the other way around, so you can't just change the culture, you have to change the system.

We must create economic opportunity, build a culture of entrepreneurship, get people to take responsibility for improving their lives, rather than putting them in a position where they sit back in their poverty and blame others for it.

Policies to strengthen education and training, to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation, and to promote capital investment, both public and private, could all potentially be of great benefit in improving future living standards in our nation.

Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

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.

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.

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

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.