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Quotes About and By Entrepreneurs
The following are some great quotes by successful entrepreneurs:
“I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn’t really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.”
—Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Enterprises
“I have always found that my view of success has been iconoclastic: success to me is not about money or status or fame, its about finding a livelihood that brings me joy and self-sufficiency and a sense of contributing to the world.”
—Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop
“There is only one way to make a great deal of money; and that is in a business of your own.”
—J. Paul Getty, oil tycoon and once the richest man in America
“The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
—Debbi Fields, founder of Mrs. Fields Cookies
“Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.”
—Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian writer and statesman
“I did something that challenged the banking world. Conventional banks look for the rich; we look for the absolutely poor. All people are entrepreneurs, but many don’t have the opportunity to find that out.”
—Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and founder of the Grameen Bank
“The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.”
—Silvio Berlusconi, politician and media mogul
“The entrepreneur is our visionary, the creator in each of us. We’re born with that quality and it defines our lives as we respond to what we see, hear, feel, and experience. It is developed, nurtured, and given space to flourish or is squelched, thwarted, without air or stimulation, and dies.”
—Michael Gerber, author and founder of E-Myth Worldwide
“When you reach an obstacle, turn it into an opportunity. You have the choice. You can overcome and be a winner, or you can allow it to overcome you and be a loser. The choice is yours and yours alone. Refuse to throw in the towel. Go that extra mile that failures refuse to travel. It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.”
—Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics
“Most new jobs won’t come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We’ve got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality.”
—Ross Perot, Texas businessman
“An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.”
—Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries
“Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.”
—Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Enterprises
“The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It’s as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
—Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese’s
“I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others… I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
—Thomas Edison
“If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.”
—Bill Rancic, winner on Donald Trump’s “The Apprentice”
“Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking. Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading: buying and selling.”
—Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop
“Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you’re generally better off sticking with what you know.”
—Donald Trump, real estate and entertainment mogul
“I had to make my own living and my own opportunity! But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
—Madam C.J. Walker, America’s first black female millionaire