Entrepreneurship Quotes

At the end of the day, it's just grape juice. No one needs anything that I make. The last thing we need is another wine on the shelf. So that just makes me grateful for the people who do enjoy it.

~ Andre Hueston Mack

I feel like you can’t judge a book by its cover, that’s always been the story of my life. I can walk into any restaurant and people would be floored to learn that I know what I do about wine, let alone that I ran one of the best wine programs in the world.

~ Andre Hueston Mack

One of the best ways to attract capital is to outperform the competition.

~ Alejandro Cremades

The best entrepreneurs are not the best visionaries. The greatest entrepreneurs are incredible salespeople. They know how to tell an amazing story that will convince talent and investors to join in on the journey.

~ Alejandro Cremades

Learning to embrace and savor rejection is one of the best things that entrepreneurs can do. Launching a startup is the time to find your ever-optimistic inner child again.

~ Alejandro Cremades

Business is still more often about whom you know, not what you know.

~ Alejandro Cremades

Ideas are meaningless without a masterful execution.

~ Alejandro Cremades

Don’t expect investors to be throwing millions on the table for you to go off and buy a bigger house, get a new car, party half the week away, and generally upgrade your lifestyle.

~ Alejandro Cremades

If you want to glide toward money, you have to make sure your message is clear as a bell, and you need to ensure that you have a unified team capable of communicating it.

~ Alejandro Cremades

The goal - at least the way I think about entrepreneurship - is you realize one day that you can't really work anyone else. You have to start your won thing. It almost doesn't matter what the thing is. We had six different business plan changes, and then the last one was PayPal.If that one didn't work out, if we still had the money and the people, obviously we would not have given up. We would have iterated on the business model and done something else. I don't think there was ever clarity as to who we were until we knew it was working. By then, we'd figured out our PR pitch and told everyone what we do and who we are. But between the founding and the actual PayPal, it was just like this tug-of-war where it was like, We're trying this, this week. Every week you go to investors and say, We're doing this, exactly this. We're really focused. We're going to be huge. The next week you're like, That was a lie.

~ Jessica Livingston

Business success requires business preparation. You don't have to be a master tactician, but you do need to have a plan in place. This plan will act as a foundation for everything you want to achieve.

~ Alejandro Cremades

Making something is HardMaking something you don't even CARE ABOUT isEVEN HARDER .

~ Jon Westenberg

Money is always eager and ready to work for anyone who is ready to employ it.

~ Idowu Koyenikan

Visionaries are especially afraid of a false negative: that customers will reject a flawed MVP that is too small or too limited.[…]The solution to this dilemma is a commitment to iteration. You have to commit to a locked-in agreement—ahead of time—that no matter what comes of testing the MVP, you will not give up hope. Successful entrepreneurs do not give up at the first sign of trouble, nor do they persevere the plan right into the ground. Instead, they process a unique combination of perseverance and flexibility.

~ Eric Ries

When I told my sister, who was a fashion designer in college, what I wanted to do, she said I was crazy. But once I got started, I couldn't turn back. Kimberly Goodwin, Snapping Turtle Kids

~ Holly Hurd

I love that I have my own business and I can't wait to tell Charlie when she's old enough that I did it all with her as my inspiration.-Carla Palmer, Cheekie Charlie

~ Holly Hurd

One thing that unites triumphant entrepreneurs, whether in Brooklyn, San Francisco or Great Falls, Montana, is strength of character.Individuality is the goal that we all strive to excel at in some way; the notion that we are distinct, special, that there is something teachable about our wisdom, something remarkable about our outlook.

~ Brian D'ambrosio

A common mistaken conclusion made by companies is they think ‘people are cheap’ and want only the best price. That’s only true if you’re only giving them the same dismal choices with no differentiation and thus no value. That is the exact point when consumers start to look at price.

~ David Brier

Don't go through the process, but GROW through it.

~ Lakia Gordon

Visionaries are specially afraid of a false negative: that customers will reject a flawed MVP that is too small or too limited.[…]The solution to this dilemma is a commitment to iteration. You have to commit to a locked-in agreement—ahead of time—that no matter what comes of testing the MVP, you will not give up hope. Successful entrepreneurs do not give up at the first sign of trouble, nor do they persevere the plan right into the ground. Instead, they process a unique combination of perseverance and flexibility.

~ Eric Ries

The day you wake up thinking the world is yours is the day you start living.

~ Samer Chidiac

This is what entrepreneurship is all about. You start off operating from a garage. And, end up, operating from a car.

~ Sharad Vivek Sagar

Entrepreneurs build ladders, employees climb them.

~ David Bareño

If you take one typewriter and build 100, you’ve made horizontal progress. If you have a typewriter and build a word processor, you have made vertical progress.

~ Peter Thiel

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

~ Onyi Anyado

It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you’re new at this — and by 'new at it,' I mean 15 years in, or even 20 — you’re just starting to get traction.

~ Louis C.k.

Your price makes a statement about your credibility. The more you charge, the more people respect you!

~ Carlos Castillo

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

~ Onyi Anyado

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

~ Onyi Anyado

Innovation, reinventing the invention

~ Joris Cox

Entrepreneur, your distinction can be found on Twitter, so, is your thought leadership impressing or depressing?

~ Onyi Anyado

Entrepreneur, you have to be known for something, not anything, but something specific, why? That's your distinction.

~ Onyi Anyado

Cut the crap! I don’t care how many hours you work, I care how much work you do in those hours.

~ Pulkit Patel

I’m most endeared to the fact that they used gifts and talents that were taught to them by other enterprising women who looked just like them. These are gifts and talents they brought with them from Africa and other distant shores. These were gifts and talents women used to appease their owners, and make their lives comfortable. These were gifts and talents used to fuel economies and for building communities. In one book I read, nickels from the sale of chicken eggs paid the college tuition of three children.

~ Robin Caldwell

If you have felt any ounce of fear, insecurity, and uncertainty during your work day, then you might be an entrepreneur.

~ Timothy Freriks

Part of the reward of entrepreneurship lies in having the courage to believe in yourself and take action.

~ Timothy Freriks

It was a horrible process to get to this. It took me my whole life. If you’re new at this — and by 'new at it,' I mean 15 years in, or even 20 — you’re just starting to get traction ... Give it a minute.

~ Louis Ck

Branding is not just a product, it's also a way of life, an idea, branding is actually leadership.

~ Onyi Anyado

Africa is crying out for entrepreneurial leaders & for leaders who are entrepreneurial.

~ Onyi Anyado

Not having a recognised brand & trying to stand out in the market is like going to the market without any goods.

~ Onyi Anyado