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Most entrepreneurs are not doing it for financial motives in the first place. They're just people who love creating.
The entrepreneurs who succeed usually want to make a difference to people’s lives, not just their own bank balances.
Location is the key to most businesses, and the entrepreneurs typically build their reputation at a particular spot.
Unstructured play gives kids the space they need to tinker and take risks - both vital for the budding entrepreneur.
As all entrepreneurs will say, "surround yourself with good people". That is the hardest thing : finding good people.
I am an entrepreneur. Beyond that, I am a mother and part of a wonderful family that is part of a wonderful business.
The first - the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur - is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
An entrepreneur is someone who dares to dream the dreams and is foolish enough to try to make those dreams come true.
Health care costs blunt the competitive edge of American entrepreneurs, from the auto industry to internet start-ups.
One of the best skills of an entrepreneur is the ability to question. By asking new questions, new answers are found.
I could never learn what I'm learning at college. They don't teach it there, because it can't be learned in that way.
My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.
There are many wrong reasons to want to be an entrepreneur. I think there's only one good reason: to change the world.
What we need is an entrepreneurial society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous.
You can never be an entrepreneur if you're afraid to lose money. It's like being a pilot who is afraid of bad weather.
I usually tell people that everything I learned about being an entrepreneur I learned by f'ing up at my first company.
You may be a redneck if . . . you think you are an entrepreneur because of the "Dirt for Sale" sign in the front yard.
I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction.
Mastermind and collaborate with other smart entrepreneurs if they have futures that are even bigger than their present.
I think of Chicago as a great entrepreneur city, a city that supports its own, that isn't as jaded as New York and L.A.
I had been an independent entrepreneur from the beginning, and I felt I could do it myself. I didn't want to get a job.
A true business opportunity is the that an entrepreneur invents to grow him or herself. Not to work in, but to work on.
Neither the entrepreneurs nor the farmers nor the capitalists determine what has to be produced. The consumers do that.
The most dangerous thing for an entrepreneur to do is to actually go into a business that he does not understand fully.
If you are not learning while you’re earning, you are cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
Cancer is the emergent property of the accumulated errors in an ordered system. It's the consequences of random events.
But economic recovery must be earned. And it will be earned by entrepreneurs and it will be earned by small businesses.
It doesn't matter whether the Dow is 5000 or 50,000. If you're an entrepreneur, there is no bad time to start a company.
One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.
Before you dismiss a beginner's work, remember how much you sucked when you started. You probably sucked worse, actually.
Real entrepreneurs do what they say they're going to do, wannabes ask about it and have tons and tons of coffee meetings.
We need to get rid of all remnants of bureaucracy and bureaucratic thinking, and start thinking like entrepreneurs again.
The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.
Do not be concerned that you might set a target too high and fail. Be concerned that you will set it too low and succeed.
Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as entrepreneur.
As an entrepreneur, you have to be OK with failure. If you're not failing, you're likely not pushing yourself hard enough.
EBay gave me the framework to discover I was an e-commerce entrepreneur. I touched everything, from shipping to logistics.
Being an entrepreneur means the ability to think out of the box by putting away our fear of any risk, including financial.
My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.
Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.
"Cyberspace is everting." It's interpenetrating our everyday reality to the point that on-line is our normal waking state.
I have always been driven by the ambition to solve every problem I face, whether as a scientist, engineer or entrepreneur.
The entrepreneurs that really make it are the ones that start with an idea but are ready to change it at a moment's notice.
We are the leaders that we have been waiting for. We are the social innovators and entrepreneurs that we have been seeking.
Every entrepreneur doesn't need to be technical - there are plenty of opportunities out there for people who aren't coders.
If there's something you want to build, but the tech isn't there yet, just find the closest possible way to make it happen.
Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier.
Cooking is a great leveller. You can be a sports star, an actor, an entrepreneur, anything, but cooking strips it all away.
An entrepreneur need not know everything but he or she should lead a team of persons who are thorough in different aspects.
The common question that gets asked in business is, why? That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, why not?