Entrepreneur Quotes

We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage around his eyes. Blind - yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that.

I try to get people to see what I have. . . . When you run a computer company, you have to get people to buy into your dreams.

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

If you were to take the lessons and experiences you've acquired in the past one year, five years or 10 years and skillfully invest that into your future, how powerful would that be? Where would you find yourself at the end of the next year?

You know, development sometimes is viewed as a project in which you give people things and nothing much happens, which is perfectly valid, but if you just focus on that, then you'd also have to say that venture capital is pretty stupid, too. Its hit rate is pathetic. But occasionally, you get successes, you fund a Google or something, and suddenly venture capital is vaunted as the most amazing field of all time. Our hit rate in development is better than theirs, but we should strive to make it better.

The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities cannot be multiplied without preventing their consumers from affirming themselves through the exercise of their personal freedom.When market dependence reaches a certain threshold it deprives people of their power to live creatively and to act autonomously. And precisely because this new impotence is so deeply experienced, it is expressed with difficulty.

That's what Walt Disney did, and Hewlett and Packard, and the people who built Intel. They created a company to last, not just to make money. That's what I want Apple to be.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

He is great who confers the most benefits.

While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you.

Like, I want the world to be better! All I want is positive! All I want is dopeness! Why would you want to control that?

We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.

The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue.

Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.

Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.

Each of us sees in others what we carry in our own hearts.

To have more than you've got, become more than you are.

We have always tried to be guided by the basic idea that, in the discovery of knowledge, there is great entertainment - as, conversely, in all good entertainment, there is always some grain of wisdom, humanity, or enlightenment to be gained.

Never get bored or cynical. Yesterday is a thing of the past.

The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios. If one man in twenty thousand, or in thirty thousand, eats shoes, or marries his grandmother, then, in every twenty thousand, or thirty thousand, is found one man who eats shoes, or marries his grandmother.

There are always two parties;the establishment and the movement.

A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes, in letters of light. Concealment avails him nothing; boasting nothing. There is confession in the glances of our eyes; in our smiles; in salutations; and the grasp of hands.

His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men, but that Thales, Anaximenes, Hipparchus, Empodocles, Aristorchus, Pythagorus, Oenipodes, had anticipated them.

We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy - even beyond the market opportunities - that's something that appropriately ought to be done.

Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another's dogmatism. Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board. Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread, and if not store of it, yet such as shall not take away your property in all men's possessions, in all men's affections, in art, in nature, and in hope.

People don't want to embrace culture shifts because it's not going to happen in the next 20 minutes.

Great marketing is all about telling your story in such a way that it compels people to buy what you are selling.

And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle ofyour character and aims.

A man must keep an eye on his servants, if he would not have them rule him.

It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.

The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.

Friends are like spaghetti, they should stick together. The only way to have a friend is to be one.

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.

Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.

Genius is its own end.

I just want it to look like nothing else in the world. And it should be surrounded by a train.

This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

Our work is never over.

I think of a child's mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on the pages. The quality of that writing will affect his life profoundly.

Tart, cathartic virtue.

In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages

Often, the most extraordinary opportunities are hidden among the seemingly insignificant events of life. If we do not pay attention to these events, we can easily miss the opportunities.

Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.

Genius is intellect constructive.

I dropped out of Reed College [Portland, Oregon] after the first six months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.

Dreams are a projection of the kind of life you want to lead. Dreams can drive you. Dreams can make you skip over obstacles. When you allow your dreams to pull you, they unleash a creative force that can overpower any obstacle in your path.

A good intention but fixed and resolute - bent on high and holy ends, we shall find means to them on every side and at every moment; and even obstacles and opposition will but make us "like the fabled specter-ships," which sail the fastest in the very teeth of the wind.