Entrepreneur Quotes

A firm consist of the system of relationships which comes into existence when the direction of resources is dependent on an entrepreneur. (Ronald Coase)
In the journey of an entrepreneur, the most important thing is self-belief and the ability to convert that belief into reality. View quote
Mukesh Ambani
If your aspirations are not greater than your resources, you're not an entrepreneur. View quote
C.K. Prahalad
The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for "entrepreneur." View quote
George W. Bush
The market is sovereign and in the magic economy of the small entrepreneur there is no authoritarian center... in the political sphere... the equilibrium of powers prevails, and hence there is no chance of despotism. View quote
C. Wright Mills
A work-in-progress generates its own energy field. You, the artist or entrepreneur, are pouring love into the work; you are suffusing it with passion and intention and hope. View quote
Steven Pressfield
The discounting presumably is to be done for each period of time at that rate of interest which represents the alternative cost of employing capital in the occupation in question; that is, at the rate which the entrepreneur could obtain in other investments. View quote
Kenneth Boulding
There are no checks and balances if the gov is wrong, if a private entrepreneur makes a mistake, he goes bankrupt, the losses are cut, if he bets wrong, he loses, if the gov bets wrong, they just get bigger, they just appropriate more money, it's a bottomless pit, because they either get it from the tax payers or run it off a printing press. View quote
Peter Schiff
Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production. View quote
Joseph Schumpeter
An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes. View quote
Victor Kiam
Schumpter's daring and dashing entrepreneur is now a legendary figure from the distant past - if not from the mythology of capitalism - or is to be found only in the demimonde of business, founding new ice cream parlors or "deep freeze subscription clubs." (Paul A. Baran)
When I took the entrepreneurship class at Stanford, the first lecture was about an entrepreneur and his personality. They described it as being different than a businessman, who is an overall scientific manager. View quote
Phil Knight
We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality. View quote
Arthur C. Brooks
The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur are the ability to fail, to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on them, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure. View quote
James Altucher
...most entrepreneurial types are free-wheelers who like to do a variety of things and do not enjoy routine tasks. But a smart entrepreneur will eventually learn that while ideas start businesses, organization makes them successful. View quote
Larry Burkett
People ask me all the time, 'How can I become a successful entrepreneur?' And I have to be honest: It's one of my least favorite questions, because if you're waiting for someone else's advice to become an entrepreneur, chances are you're not one. View quote
Michael Dell
I've never really thought of myself as an entrepreneur. I think of an entrepreneur as someone who wants to make a lot of money. That has never been at the top of my list. View quote
James Goodnight
The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal. View quote
David Geffen
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. View quote
Ian Ziering
I see myself as a classic middle market entrepreneur, and this is the role I fulfil. View quote
Niki Lauda
Every venture capitalist says at some point, 'I wish I could run this company myself' - to be the entrepreneur instead of the investor. (Alan Patricof)
Becoming an entrepreneur was the furthest thing from my mind. I actually had an identity crisis when I realized I had become one. View quote
Anne Taintor
Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise. View quote
Arthur Erickson
An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change. View quote
Bill Drayton
A savvy entrepreneur will not always look for investment money, first. View quote
Daymond John