Entrepreneurship & Business: Entrepreneur Quotes

"I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job"

Will Estes, Actor

"It's my company, and I believe in the company; that's why I started it"

Eriq La Salle, Actor

"You looked at Stanford or Harvard, or the University of Colorado, these were powerful engines just turning out people ready to create and grow businesses"

John Hickenlooper, Politician

"Furthermore, the spirit of enterprise, which had its first intellectual development in England, has especially flourished here as well as throughout all of Canada, while the same spirit has become less virile in the land of its origin"

Charles E. Wilson, Businessman

"Right now, I'm working with Super Bakery and we manufacture nutritional donuts called Super Donuts"

Franco Harris, Athlete

"In fact, since no one's been interested in my work, I took the responsibility recently to invest in my own work, so I'm producing a concert that was done at the Vision Festival in May"

Joseph Jarman, Musician

"There are many programs specifically aimed at helping people in poverty start a business"

Matthew Lesko, Entertainer

"So It's not like I go from being this disciplined person who has to get up and go to work to now I just lay around all day in my underwear eating Cheerios. I have this structure. I still have to do this and the difference is I'm doing this for me and my company"

Eriq La Salle, Actor

"Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'"

Paul Graham, Scientist

"I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents"

Orville Redenbacher, Businessman

"For the most ambitious young people, the corporate ladder is obsolete"

Paul Graham, Scientist

"That's the way it is with entrepreneurial people. You try one thing, it doesn't work, you try another"

Pete du Pont, Politician

"I can't help thinking if she - the director of a government agency - is this ignorant about what funding is available and where the money comes from - how often lower-level bureaucrats must give wrong answers when people are looking for help to start a business"

Matthew Lesko, Entertainer

"I am providing a service that many people obviously value"

Matthew Lesko, Entertainer

"I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire"

Toni Braxton, Musician

"German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship"

Suzanne Fields, Writer

"There were some entrepreneurial du Ponts that are a little different from the heads of the corporations today"

Pete du Pont, Politician

"The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few"

Philip Knight, Businessman

"Modeling can be a bit brain damaging. Starting my own brand was what I needed to do. I only model if there are such good jobs that you don't want to say no to. All that dressing up makes me say, 'What do I want to wear?' and, 'What do I want to do with Topshop?' It all kind of leads into the other things"

Kate Moss, Model

"My partner and I are looking at several locations on Park Avenue South and Midtown for a new restaurant space"

Bobby Flay, Celebrity

"My job involves a lot of different skills now - I'm as much entrepreneur and management consultant as anything else these days - but IA is still my favorite part of the work I do"

Jesse James Garrett, Businessman

"I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago"

David Knopfler, Musician

"But economic recovery must be earned. And it will be earned by entrepreneurs, and it will be earned by small businesses"

Jon Huntsman, Jr., Politician

"For America's economic future to remain prosperous, we must encourage pro-growth policies so that we continue to be the leader in innovation and entrepreneurship"

John Ensign, Politician

"I have a company in New York City producing music for commercials, for radio, TV, features, etc. That's how I've been making my living. And now the company is very successful - to the extent that I can afford to come out and play"

Chico Hamilton, Musician

"I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself"

Alison Bechdel, Cartoonist

"After working for 14 years on Wall Street and growing up in a family with strong roots in small business, I know how important the entrepreneurial spirit is to attaining the American Dream"

Ellen Tauscher, Politician

"You have to create your own stuff. It's really exciting to create something, sell it, and feel like I'm not just a pawn waiting to be cast"

Anna Faris, Actress

"Planet Lucy Press? I incorporated myself to deal with publishing and was calling myself Big Bang Incorporated, which of course has to do with the Big Bang at the beginning of creation"

Rob Walton, Athlete

"A true business opportunity is the that an entrepreneur invents to grow him or herself. Not to work in, but to work on"

Michael Gerber, Author

"The entrepreneur in us sees opportunities everywhere we look, but many people see only problems everywhere they look. The entrepreneur in us is more concerned with discriminating between opportunities than he or she is with failing to see the opportunities"

Michael Gerber, Author

"People always try to put a title or a symbol on you. If you work in a bank, you are a banker. For me, they see a co-founder of Facebook"

Eduardo Saverin, Entrepreneur

"A man does not automatically become a public figure because he happens to build an empire out of chicken fat"

James Pinckney Miller, Playwright

"Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly I find I don't have much time to code any more"

Eric Allman, Scientist

"My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know, but because of their insatiable need to know more"

Michael Gerber, Author

"There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy"

John Baldacci, Politician

"We will also allow state companies to sell shares to their workers and will pass a law allowing citizens to start companies of their own with no limits on the number of employees or on the firm's output"

Vaclav Klaus, Statesman

"I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do"

Solomon Burke, Musician

"I want to invest and have my own record label and artists. I want to have a business where my kids, kids, kids will still have something going on long after I'm gone"

Chingy, Musician

"Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well"

Naveen Jain, Businessman

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