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For entrepreneurs, ignorance is not bliss. It's fatal. It's costly. And it's for losers. You either get organized, or get crushed.
I think, as an entrepreneur, you have to see the unlimited amount of potential but concentrate on your day and just keep building.
Friends and family will tell you why your ideas won't work. Most are left-brained employees and specialists and NOT entrepreneurs.
As entrepreneurs, we already know our most valuable asset is time, but not every entrepreneur knows how to properly use that time.
The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.
From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I've felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people's lives better.
You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
I also know, as an entrepreneur myself, you face new obstacles every day and you need to have the perseverance to see them through.
A legislative entrepreneur...doesn't just believe the right things. He's out there trying to make a good idea legislatively viable.
Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.
Entrepreneurs need to listen. They don't need to be good listeners (although it can only help) but they need to know when to listen.
Mrs Thicknesse and I agreed that a business of his own was probably the only solution for him because he was obviously unemployable.
Before dreaming about the future or marking plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you - as entrepreneurs do.
I could probably say one thing that I'm excited about is I definitely wanna be an entrepreneur and be a humanitarian and that stuff.
If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.
I treat business a bit like a computer game. I count money as points. I'm doing really well: making lots of money and lots of points.
I think that my original drive as an entrepreneur was precisely that desire to get away from the image of the shipping magnate's son.
When I was coming up as an entrepreneur, I had to fight for everything I got, and there was no clear roadmap of how to be successful.
Start building a network of fellow entrepreneurs that understand your passion and don’t make you feel guilty about always chasing it.
Every entrepreneur talks about the passion you have for your work, and I think that's what's missing with a lot of women in business.
Entrepreneurs, because they need money, they are willing to share their crystal ball with someone like me. That's the best thing ever.
We are sometime truly to see our life as positive, not negative, as made up of continuous willing, not of constraints and prohibition.
If you're looking to become an entrepreneur then don't waste your time going to university or business school - just get on and do it.
Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.
True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices under conditions of uncertainty, not about assuming plans can remove risk.
If I'm an entrepreneur, and I have a term sheet from Sequoia and Kleiner, that's the safe choice. Google Ventures is the brave choice.
Every venture capitalist says at some point, 'I wish I could run this company myself' - to be the entrepreneur instead of the investor.
More process, less innovation. More operations, less innovation. More management, less innovation. More entrepreneurs, more innovation.
Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.
I am an entrepreneur, but not in the conventional sense. I have learnt business as time passed, but I do not have a B-school education.
You want to hire # entrepreneurs , people who are natural problem solvers -- the ones who see opportunity when most see impossibility.
When the entrepreneur is obsessed with the product and the company has organized all of its activities around that, it's very powerful.
To have real success and roots in a society, there has to be a local champion, and hence we believe in identifying a local entrepreneur.
Every venture capitalist says at some point, 'I wish I could run this company myself' -- to be the entrepreneur instead of the investor.
For honest insight into who you are, don't ask yourself what your priorities are for next week. Ask what your priorities were last week.
Society can't wait. It's sad there are so many entrepreneurs, business successes and venture capitalists who give no thought to society.
I would much rather always look forward to the time when I am going to ride in a carriage, than to look back on the time when I used to.
Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputations on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.
I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny.
There's a new generation of entrepreneurs in the Valley who have arrived since 2000, after the dotcom bust. They're completely fearless.
I'm a mom. I'm a wife. I'm an actress. I'm an executive producer. I'm an author. I'm an entrepreneur, and I'm a sister and a best friend.
I admire many entrepreneurs. They bring energy, excitement, youthful enthusiasm. What they lack in process, they make up for in gumption.
I want to give other creatives the opportunity to find the entrepreneur inside themselves and teach them how to build their own platform.
I look for the entrepreneur to capture my attention. If you don't come out with a great presentation, you're dead. That's a big red flag.
It sounds boring, but anything is easy to start-starting a novel, starting a business ... it's keeping the thing going that is difficult.
The formula is simple - do more of what is working, do less of what isn't, and try on new behaviors to see if they produce better results.
I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead.
The key to being a good manager or a good entrepreneur is to pick the right people. Pick the right people, and they'll make you look good.
Any outcome, any deal that doesn't preserve the freedom and openness of the Internet for consumers and entrepreneurs will be unacceptable.
In Ireland we have a very old saying, When you can see the mountains it's going to rain and when you can't see the mountains it's raining.