Entrepreneurship Quotes

When the business grows, the person who founded it is incredibly busy. Rapid growth puts an enormous strain on a business. You outgrow your production facilities. You outgrow your management capabilities.

California has a special relationship with the Internet. Many of the core technologies that power the Internet were invented here. Many of the most successful online entrepreneurs and content creators - in business, the arts, and countless other endeavors - got their start here.

It's lonely at the top - if you don't like that, then you don't start a company.

Every entrepreneur deals with fears of failure. However, the truly successful know how to face these fears and keep on working.

I didn't start with a lot. I have friends who started with a lot who have now built on top of it, and I'm impressed because I used to think that was a disadvantage. I think there are a million ways to do it.

Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service.

Don't worry; skills are cheap, passion is priceless. If you're passionate about your content and you know it and do it better than anyone else, even with few formal business skills you have the potential to create a million-dollar business.

Management and entrepreneurship are only two different dimensions of the same task. An entrepreneur who does not learn how to manage will not last long. A management that does not learn to innovate will not last long.

Mark Zuckerberg will be a hero to many young entrepreneurs 20 years from now. Bill Gates will be a hero to others, and they will look to those [people] like I read books when I was in my teens about Rockefeller or Carnegie.

It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.

If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

I am not topper in my university but all toppers are working in my microsoft company.

When we got Tesla going at the very beginning, if you asked me what I thought the odds of success were, I would have said less than 50%. I would have said that failure is the most likely outcome.

I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

Entrepreneurship is like eating glass and walking on hot coals at the same time

I went public too soon. Stay private as long as you can.

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don't believe in the whole thing of just using other people's money. I don't think that's right. I'm not going to ask other people to invest in something if I'm not prepared to do so myself.

I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

Successful entrepreneurship is ultimately a matter of flair. But there is also a fund of practical knowledge to be acquired and, of course, the right legal and financial framework has to be provided for productive enterprise to develop.

Starting a business is not for everyone. Starting a business - I'd say, number one is have a high pain threshold.

Your business is never really good or bad 'out there.' Your business is either good or bad right between your own two ears.

The average for entrepreneurs is 3.8 failures before they finally make it in business.

One of the things that I'm really proud of is that I have really good timing. It's very easy for me to see what's coming up and it's no coincidence that I went headfirst into wine and then headfirst into new media - none at all.

When we launched the WineLibrary website in 1996, I didn't even own a computer yet. I just understood that there was an opportunity here to market in a different way.

I studied every thing but never topped.... But today the toppers of the best universities are my employees

We had nothing to lose and everything to gain.

Kids ought to have two bicycles, one to ride and one to rent.