Entrepreneurship & Business: Entrepreneur Quotes

"Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier"

Paula Nelson, Writer

"The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were gamblers"

Marcel Carne, Director

"What better way to prove that you understand a subject than to make money out of it?"

Harold Rosenberg, Writer

"I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries"

Uwe Boll, Director

"Our region's economy was built upon their entrepreneurial spirit, and our economy still depends on the continued success of the enterprises they have worked so hard to create"

Doc Hastings, Politician

"You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher"

Richard Curtis, Writer

"If you can't find the next McDonald's, I'll find the next McDonald's. But it's vital to be with people who with looking for 'em, because they do exist. They are created"

Jim Cramer, Businessman

"A man with an invention on which he has spent his life, but has no means to get it developed for the good of humanity - or even patented for himself - must feel the pinch of poverty very acutely"

James Payn, Novelist

"We are busy planning the launch of the channel. I am busy planning all kinds of events that go on the channel without me. I have started producing a sound for the channel"

Howard Stern, Entertainer

"I'm opening a store at the end of the month in the New York Meatpacking District. I'm launching a line of bedding this summer, and I am writing a book that will be out next January"

Genevieve Gorder, Designer

"Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners, but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was"

Ed Smith

"These are clothes my friends and I could wear. This ain't Prada. I don't want to be one of those celebrities that slaps their name on a label and collects royalty checks. Everything on that runway reflects me"

Nicky Hilton, Model

"I already have a production company called J Squared and we're working on two projects"

Jordana Brewster, Actress

"I have several computer companies. One of them I have a program for wide-format printing. I have a beauty program. So I have several different programs that I own for printing"

Jerry Mathers, Actor

"In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability"

George Gilder, Writer

"We turned what is virtually a glorified independent label into one of the powerhouse labels in the town"

Toby Keith, Musician

"I was looking to become more proactive with my career because I wasn't crazy with some of the scripts I was getting - this was before Blow and Hannibal - so I decided to start my own production company"

Ray Liotta, Actor

"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats"

Howard Aiken, Scientist

"Well, really the way worked was that I had probably built fifty robots before Mystery Science Theater, and I had sold them in a store in Minneapolis in a store called Props, which was kind of a high end gift shop"

Joel Hodgson, Entertainer

"I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income"

George Stephen, Businessman

"It's through curiosity and looking at opportunities in new ways that we've always mapped our path at Dell. There's always an opportunity to make a difference"

Michael Dell, Businessman

"I should have my own publishing companies"

Solomon Burke, Musician

"As a political independent, I would gladly vote for any political party dedicated to limited government and entrepreneurship"

Arthur C. Brooks, Author

"I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?"

Sheldon Adelson, Businessman

"Jobs are a priority for every country. Doing more to improve regulation and help entrepreneurs is the key to creating jobs - and more growth"

Paul Wolfowitz, Celebrity

"Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business"

Michael Gerber, Author

"If you open up the mind, the opportunity to address both profits and social conditions are limitless. It's a process of innovation"

Jerry Greenfield, Businessman

"When I finished school, I took my entire life savings - $5,000 - and invested it in a business. I was young. I was inexperienced. But I was an entrepreneur, and I was proud. And in six weeks, I was broke"

Mark Warner, Politician

"Well, it was kind of an accident, because plastic is not what I meant to invent. I had just sold photograph paper to Eastman Kodak for 1 million dollars"

Leo Baekeland, Inventor

"So I became a producer because I knew one of the reasons was they didn't do them the way I thought was right"

Lee Hazlewood, Musician

"I used my aviation contacts to open a travel agency. I used to book Caribbean flights"

Joseph Force Crater, Judge

"Successful entrepreneurs find the balance between listening to their inner voice and staying persistent in driving for success - because sometimes success is waiting right across from the transitional bump that's disguised as failure"

Naveen Jain, Businessman

"You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock 'n' roll stars"

James Daly, Actor

"I can now focus on a huge audience through TV, books, cookware and foods"

Rocco DiSpirito, Celebrity

"We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business"

Marcy Kaptur, Politician

"In 1893, I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899"

Leo Baekeland, Inventor

"Young entrepreneurs should spend an awful lot of time thinking about what they want to go into"

John Kluge, Businessman

"I enjoyed high school and college, and I think I learned a lot, but that was not really my focus. My focus was on trying to figure out what businesses to start"

Steve Case, Businessman

"We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality"

Arthur C. Brooks, Author

"The American economy has always been driven by the entrepreneurial nature of its citizens, and blocking access to affordable health care will only suffocate growth within the small business sector of our economy"

Paul Gillmor, Politician

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