Entrepreneurs

“I think the entrepreneurial spirit is still alive and kicking. I hope it never ever dies, because I think when it does, the world dies.”

“Entrepreneurs are artists and I mean “artists” in the true sense of the word: they see something no one else does.”

“Product/market fit is the holy grail for entrepreneurs.”

“Normal people expect to be recognized for what they do. Entrepreneurs make their own recognition and create their own reality.”

“I think that people have the idea of an entrepreneur being the sort of stereotype person who treads all over everybody and bullies their way to the top. There certainly are people like that, and they have managed to get away with it, but they generally get their come-uppance in the end.”

“To any potential entrepreneur I would say, don't go with the wave; find something unique.”

“I don’t believe there are any free lunches. There is no easy ride to success. The journey is what it is and you have to accept that if you want to be a successful entrepreneur.”

“Let’s free entrepreneurs to do what they do best – innovate, grow, and hire.”

“The true entrepreneur is one who thinks laterally, about how to make a second business out of the first.”

“I see an entrepreneur as the chief designer of a business that works better than any other.”

“For too long, enterprise has been defined in quite narrow terms—a vague notion of business start-ups. This definition has confined the study of the subject to the fringes—a kind of strange novelty, or a bolt-on to other subjects.”

“The entrepreneur is the person who seeks to identify what consumers, at home or abroad or both, want and would be willing to buy at a profitable price. These entrepreneurs are the job-creators because it is they who gather the men and women, the material, the machinery, and the money to turn the vision of a market into a reality.”

“If you look at the typical profile of entrepreneurs, they have changed a lot. The startup companies today have pretty much been the people who survived in a very tough, Darwinian environment. It’s really a one-in-a-million thing.”

“Brilliant minds are applying technology to world's toughest problems.”

“Napoleon said Britain is a nation of shopkeepers and a shopkeeper is an entrepreneur—he or she is a small business person. That’s exactly what we are.”

“In this world people remember you for the things you do for others rather than for yourself.”

“An entrepreneur is very enthusiastic and dances to a different drum beat, but never considers success as something which equates to personal wealth.”

“We [entrepreneurs] have incredible enthusiasm, and I think part of the success of any entrepreneur is energy. Entrepreneurs have this real belief that their lives are about service and leadership.”