Entrepreneurship Quotes

It's called entrepreneurSHIP, not entrepreneurSTAY. Don't wait. Just ship.

~ Richie Norton

When you walk in silence your excellence will always speak for you.

~ Onyi Anyado

Gamblers take blind risks. Entrepreneurs take risks while visually impaired and feel their way up and out.

~ Ryan Lilly

Entrepreneur, your either raising the bar of excellence or your exhaling at the bar which is expensive.

~ Onyi Anyado

Sometimes, the risks we take are so extreme that if things didn’t work in our favor, we could lose EVERYTHING for the sake of our faith.

~ D. Nicole Williams

People think entrepreneurs are all about fame and money. I was never in for either. And, will never be. This is a much bigger fight.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

Purists don't take shortcuts. For me, the vision is more important than anything.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

Proformas rarely perform; missed projections are more often the norm. Still, we skew them up high, we miss but we try, for proformas which rarely perform.

~ Ryan Lilly

Watch, listen, and learn. You can’t know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.

~ Donald J. Trump

You will never see an eagle of distinction flying low with pigeons of mediocrity.

~ Onyi Anyado

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.

~ Peter F. Drucker

Always deliver more than expected.

~ Larry Page

Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.

~ Anthony Volodkin

To become distinguished in your industry, you have to constantly manage, master and maximise your time.

~ Onyi Anyado

Don’t try to be original, just try to be good.

~ Paul Rand

Start local, think global & constantly raise the bar of excellence.

~ Onyi Anyado

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

~ Vince Lombardi Jr.

You can say anything to anyone, but how you say it will determine how they will react.

~ John Rampton

Textbooks are not so much wrong as they are conventional – and an entrepreneurial idea must be contrarian.

~ Jim Manzi

The day I realized I could speak well, I decided I won't speak for myself anymore.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

As soon as he said it was okay to do engineering, that really freed me up. My psychological block was really that I didn't want to start a company. Because I was just afraid. In business and politics, I wasn't going to be a real strong participant. I wasn't going to tell other people how to do things. I wasn't going to run things ever in my life. I was a non-political person and I was a very non-forceful person. It dated back to a lot of things that happened during the Vietnam War. But I just couldn't run a company.

~ Steve Wozniak

Entrepreneurs see the no diving sign and back-up to get a running start.

~ Ryan Lilly

You have to make your own chances.

~ Duncan Bannatyne

A 2006 Harvard University study shows that entrepreneurs who have failed in their previous enterprise have an almost one-in-five chance of success in their next start-up

~ Dan Senor

Sometimes in life, it has to be enough to be proud of yourself, even if no one else notices.

~ Duncan Bannatyne

The one thing all entrepreneurs have in common is that they started. The one thing everyone else has in common is that they haven’t.

~ Ryan Lilly

To be successful you must recognise your weaknesses and employ people with complementary skills.

~ Duncan Bannatyne

Why wouldn't you want to buy something that made you money?

~ Duncan Bannatyne

The key to finding financial freedom is to unlock your entrepreneurial intelligence, work your network and lead the time.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

If you make the opportunity. you'll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.

~ Biz Stone

There's no such thing as a superhero, but together we can world in a new direction.

~ Biz Stone

Entrepreneurship, with the right mindset, can help anyone reach his goals in life.

~ Joey A. Concepcion

Gen Y's work best in groups, collaboratively, transparently, interactively and entrepreneurially - and have already created positive change in many local communities and around the world.

~ Charlie Caruso

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~ Lynn D. Ahbonbon

...a long-term reputation is only at risk when companies engage in vocal launch activities such as PR and building hype. When a product fails to live up to those pronouncements, real long-term damage can happen to a corporate brand. But startups have the advantage of being obscure, having a pathetically small number of customers and not having much exposure. Rather than lamenting them, use these advantages to experiment under the radar and then do a public marketing launch once the product has proved itself with real customers.

~ Eric Ries

Most rich people have a gangster in their ancestry somewhere.

~ Ken Follett

Screw it. Let's do it.

~ Richard Branson

The purpose of diversification is so that when one investment goes down or is not doing well, you are insulated from the result because of the others you have in place. In a job or career, most of us are trying to specialize so much so that we've ended up with all of our eggs in the same basket. That's not managing risk at all. That's putting yourself at risk. - Chris Lutz

~ Chris Lutz

Think about this for a second. Why is it that we would not invest even a single dollar without diversifying it and managing risk, but do exactly the opposite, putting all of our eggs in one basket, with our regular income in our careers? - Chris Lutz, Modular Career Design

~ Chris Lutz

What drove me? I think most creative people want to express appreciation for being able to take advantage of the work that’s been done by others before us. I didn’t invent the language or mathematics I use. I make little of my own food, none of my own clothes. Everything I do depends on other members of our species and the shoulders that we stand on. And a lot of us want to contribute something back to our species and to add something to the flow. It’s about trying to express something in the only way that most of us know how—because we can’t write Bob Dylan songs or Tom Stoppard plays. We try to use the talents we do have to express our deep feelings, to show our appreciation of all the contributions that came before us, and to add something to that flow. That’s what has driven me.”-“It’s strange to think that you accumulate all this experience, and maybe a little wisdom, and it just goes away. So I really want to believe that something survives, that maybe your consciousness endures He fell silent for a very long time. “But on the other hand, perhaps it’s like an on-off switch,” he said. “Click! And you’re gone.”Then he paused again and smiled slightly. “Maybe that’s why I never liked to put on-off switches on Apple devices.

~ Walter Isaacson