Entrepreneurship & Business: Entrepreneur Quotes

"The small businessman is smart; he realizes there's no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich"

Adam Osborne, Author

"It had not yet been named Silicon Valley, but you had the defense industry, you had Hewlett-Packard. But you also had the counter-culture, the Bay Area. That entire brew came together in Steve Jobs"

Erik Qualman, Author

"I believe that the profits will come from the quality of your creative products. Since the beginning, I've always wanted to develop a self-feeding circle of creative productions: the positive financial returns from one show would be used to develop and create a new show, and so on"

Guy Laliberte, Businessman

"I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant"

Esther Williams, Actress

"This industry is a business - I'm a business myself, and I want to be able to run my own business"

Sydney Sweeney, Actress

"I'd love to have a production company one day, and I'd love to maybe venture out with other industries"

Sydney Sweeney, Actress

"I believe in this industry as a business, and I want to continue to grow my own business"

Sydney Sweeney, Actress

"We've tapped into a huge demand, and it's up to us to fulfill that demand and to be creative doing it"

Jim Barksdale, Businessman

"Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals"

William Graham Sumner, Businessman

"People don't know how hard it is to have your own business"

Suge Knight, Producer

"Take our own company as an example: We're living proof, we jump with our own parachutes"

Jim Barksdale, Businessman

"But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants"

Vivienne Westwood, Designer

"We need to stop apologizing for celebrating life. We need to stop apologizing for wanting to protect an individual's right to build a business"

Rick Perry, Politician

"I want young people to know there is no age limit to when they can start their own business or when they can become a boss"

Zendaya, Actress

"We got government off the backs of the people of India, particularly off the backs of India's entrepreneurs. We introduced more competition, both internal competition and external competition. We simplified and rationalized the tax system. We made risk-taking much more attractive"

Manmohan Singh, Statesman

"Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board, wanting to create a business"

Walter Isaacson, Writer

"More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other"

Walter Isaacson, Writer

"I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label"

Helen Reddy, Actress

"Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity"

Arnold Bennett, Novelist

"Sure, I'd like to be like the House of Chanel"

John Galliano, Designer

"Models now need to promote themselves, think like businesswomen and diversify their careers by doing other things. Chances are very slim that a mere model will become a household name today"

Tyra Banks, Model

"He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs"

Walter Isaacson, Writer

"I'm trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my audience and create a legacy that outlives me. There are so many other ways I want to reach women besides doing a talk show"

Tyra Banks, Model

"We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope, and I am confident that India's entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion"

Manmohan Singh, Statesman

"I never had a job. I bought my first house within a year of getting out of school, and I built a custom one four and a half years later. The Art Center didn't teach much about business, but I learned a lot from the Fortune 500 companies that were my clients"

Richard MacDonald, Sculptor

"Wherever I see people doing something the way it's always been done, the way it's 'supposed' to be done, following the same old trends, well, that's just a big red flag to me to go look somewhere else"

Mark Cuban, Businessman

"When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?"

Mark Cuban, Businessman

"I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients"

Gloria Swanson, Actress

"I wanted to be a businesswoman from as early as I can remember, and specifically, my real passion was real estate"

Ivanka Trump, Businesswoman

"We need to build a more diverse and dynamic economy, based on innovation and entrepreneurship"

Dmitry Medvedev, President

"Focused. I'm a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else"

Mos Def, Musician

"Before the work comes to you, you have to invent work"

Steve Lacy, Musician

"I would work as a cook, get a little money, then open another restaurant"

Paul Prudhomme, Celebrity

"It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before"

Jackson Browne, Musician

"The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication"

Michael Faraday, Scientist

"The world doesn't need another clothing company. But it does need a certain funk"

Andre Benjamin, Musician

"Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire"

Leland Stanford, Businessman

"I am going into the adult market because they don't care what label you are signed to or who you know"

Luther Campbell, Musician

"Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers"

Leland Stanford, Businessman

"I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didn't all start just a few years ago!"

Paul Prudhomme, Celebrity

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