Entrepreneurship & Business: Entrepreneur Quotes

"I've had a terrific life, from building one company to be the second largest company in the securities industry and merging that into American Express, and becoming president of that company"

Sanford I. Weill, Businessman

"We worked personally with a lot of great VCs. They just work incredibly hard at supporting entrepreneurs and their companies"

Marc Andreessen, Businessman

"Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world"

Marc Andreessen, Businessman

"I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company"

Larry Wall, Author

"One of the reasons I started Tzadik, which is my own label, is to keep things in print. I got tired of labels dropping things out of print when they don't sell"

John Zorn, Composer

"When I started Victoria Principal Products, there were 22 full-time employees - they were all women"

Victoria Principal, Actress

"If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty"

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Novelist

"But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by, and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from"

Carly Fiorina, Businessman

"Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking"

Anita Roddick, Businessman

"I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market"

Anita Roddick, Businessman

"When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun"

Anita Roddick, Businessman

"At The Body Shop, we had always been measured by how many jobs we had created, and I got a major award from the Queen on that"

Anita Roddick, Businessman

"I signal with an independent label, Continuum. After that I put out a totally independent record, sold fourteen thousand of them from my basement, bought a house, started raising my kid, made a decent living"

Kid Rock, Musician

"I have no regrets about launching Salon. For the life of me, I can't imagine doing anything else"

David Talbot, Journalist

"My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job"

Ted Turner, Businessman

"I've been fortunate to come on places where the question isn't why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didn't anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

"Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups"

Tom Allen, Politician

"I could never live a nonproductive life, and I feel that I have lived a productive life as far as I want to in terms of this company that I have for so many years"

Katherine Dunham, Dancer

"The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune"

Amelia Earhart, Aviator

"Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding a bit of competition, and it's fun to be able to deliver it"

Richard Branson, Businessman

"We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it"

Richard Branson, Businessman

"We, we - as I say, we go in and shake up other industries, and I think, you know, we do it differently, and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market"

Richard Branson, Businessman

"So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on"

Richard Branson, Businessman

"I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going"

Richard Branson, Businessman

"Fortunately, we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want"

Richard Branson, Businessman

"And you know, I've had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on"

Richard Branson, Businessman

"An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company"

Jay-Z, Musician

"I have inherited two of the most important brands in hip-hop, Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella. Reid and Universal Music Group have given me the opportunity to manage the companies I have contributed to my whole career. I feel this is a giant step for me and the entire artist community"

Jay-Z, Musician

"Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas"

Harvey S. Firestone, Businessman

"If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset"

Harvey S. Firestone, Businessman

"My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business"

Frederick W. Smith, Businessman

"Consolidation isn't new, though... It was a major factor in our rush to form the Gathering and place a stake in the ground to ensure that there is a solid path for developers who are willing to stay independent and build their own companies on their own terms"

Mike Wilson, Writer

"An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work"

William Feather, Author

"Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"My brands are an extension of me. They're close to me. It's not like running GM, where there's no emotional attachment"

Jay-Z, Musician

"America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to"

Larry Elder, Journalist

"The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people. They were founded by people with extraordinary intelligence, ambition, and aggressiveness"

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Politician

"I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need"

Adam Osborne, Author

"This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it"

Adam Osborne, Author

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