Entrepreneurship Quotes

If you don't have paying customers, you have a hobby.

~ Miles Anthony Smith

When I was bartering to gain clients, I was self-sabotaging my business. I wasn’t making money, and the promised “exchange of advertising” wasn’t helping to grow my business.

~ Kim Beasley

What are you doing to serve your customers a little more every day?

~ John Di Lemme

Any family without an entrepreneur has a limited hope.

~ Auliq Ice

Entrepreneurship is like a weighing machine whose load content should tilt towards passion to solve a pressing need, more than passion to make money.

~ Auliq Ice

Entrepreneurship is all about making life easier for humanity, while money becomes a bye-product.

~ Auliq Ice

The more ethical and honest your business is, the harder it is to make money. And you have to understand this going in: when you start a business, being good and moral and ethical and, you know, legal… means you will make less money than someone who simply does not give a fuck.If you’re wondering where all this is going, the point to all this is to hammer into your skull the blunt reality that you and your new business are indistinguishable from the worst examples of the industry, and nobody cares.

~ Caliban Darklock

If you stop fighting for what you want, what you don't want will automatically take over

~ Gordon Attard

Most startups eventually pivot to adjust to what the market is telling them.

~ Alejandro Cremades

Not every single broke and unemployed person needs a job, some need customers.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Answers are free, mistakes are costly.

~ Danielle Tate

Before you start any business, you need to get your target audience down pat. Who do you want to serve? Who will your product/service benefit the most? Don’t worry about the rest.

~ Kevin J. Donaldson

Business is about creating VALUE for people. And earning money is the OUTCOME of creating value for people!

~ Kevin J. Donaldson

Even the richest person, provided the riches comes from mutually beneficial exchange, does not need to give anything back to the community, because this person took nothing out of the community. Indeed, the reverse is true: Enterprises give to the community. Their owners take huge risks, and front the money for investment, precisely with the goal of serving others. Their riches are signs that they have achieved their aims.

~ Jeffrey Tucker

You NEED to learn how to fly before you learn how to land and you MUST learn how to land before you start flying.

~ Samer Chidiac

You have to work on the business first before it works for you.

~ Idowu Koyenikan

Entrepreneur, noun: someone who takes calculated risks to add value to wider society with the hope of making money and building wealth

~ M. James Airey

Catch a customer with emotion and you will have a customer for a day; but, capture a customer with value and you will keep a customer for a lifetime. I truly believe in good, old-fashioned values when it comes to business. That is what timelessness is made of! At the end of the day, the question is, “Do you want to build a good hut for a day or do you want to build a good fortress for a lifetime?” Quality, value, understanding the needs of your clientele— that’s how you build a legacy. Connect with people, because you can never underestimate just how many people out there are yearning for any form of good interpersonal connection that they can find and when you can provide that as a brand name, you can allow the person behind your business to shine through. That’s how timelessness is created. It’s not created by luring people into a myth; it’s created by making connections, by remembering people’s names, by being genuinely interested in everybody.

~ C. Joybell C.

Age did not have to prohibit or inhibit a woman’s ability to make money or a living. Age did not diminish a woman’s usefulness as a self-employed person or entrepreneur. Age did not limit the ways in which a woman made money through self-employment or entrepreneurship.

~ Robin Caldwell

I believe a leader is inspired by his/her team to lead them.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Unlike sport in business the win-win is the best possible score

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

If you don't get any motivation from your team, there is nothing wrong with those you lead but your form of leadership.

~ Unarine Ramaru

Entrepreneurs pay the price of a road less traveled, while everyone else takes the freeway and perpetually misses their own exit.

~ Ryan Lilly

There's nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.

~ Jason Fried

Success is a journey. The best form of transport is Happiness.

~ Roy Smoothe

Entrepreneur, if you're going to start up, make sure you start up with excellence in mind

~ Onyi Anyado

Entrepreneur, your last 20 tweets has to be about your brain, brand and business.

~ Onyi Anyado

If you're not called crazy when you launch something new, it means you're not thinking BIG enough.

~ Linda Rottenberg

I faced people from all walks of business who fully disregarded design (though they were completely influenced by it). I also met fine artists who drowned in their own work and the dense creative universe in their minds.Then I met designers. And instantly fell in love. Let me tell you why.Designers are familiar with critiques. They not only tolerate them but actively look out for them. They honestly believe in iterations and learn to edit down their work. They embrace simplicity and create beauty based on requirements other than their own. Design education teaches you to run away from assumptions and to have the stomach to scrap your work often.I’m bringing this up because it’s time to bridge the gap between design and business.

~ Laura Busche

So, you don’t have money to invest in your brand? You do have money for damage control, right?Here’s the thing: anyone can make your brand inferior in your absence.

~ Laura Busche

The goal is to build a profitable business, not maintain an expensive hobby that will leave you in the poorhouse.

~ Dawn Fotopulos

Whatever business you have, if you truly believe in what you’re doing, you’re capable of going any place and doing anything. Pursue Your Dreams!

~ Rachel A. Olsen

Research conquers doubt. It aligns everyone around the incontestable. Research is the key to clarity—in startups, enterprises, and life itself.

~ Laura Busche

Brands play in an exciting sandbox of symbolic meanings.

~ Laura Busche

People change, and so do their aspirations, and so should brands.

~ Laura Busche

Make sure you test your brand story’s recipe with whomever you’re cooking it for.

~ Laura Busche

Lean brands are the result of continually testing assumptions.

~ Laura Busche

Do everything in your power to make customers go confidently in the direction of their purchase intention.

~ Laura Busche

Brand and product don’t compete. Brand is product, and everything else conforming to the unique story that consumers create when they think of you.

~ Laura Busche

Products shouldn’t just work well, they must unfold well.

~ Laura Busche