If you wait until all the lights are green before you leave home, you’ll never get started on your trip to the top.
—Zig Ziglar
I got my start by giving myself a start.
—Madam C. J. Walker
If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn’t any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man’s greatest asset.
—Harvey S. Firestone
As I stood there with the razor in my hand, my eyes resting on it as lightly as a bird settling down on its nest, the Gillette razor was born. In that moment I saw it all: the way the blade could be held in a holder; the idea of sharpening the two opposite edges on the thin piece of steel; the clamping plates, with a handle halfway between the two edges of the blade.
—King Gillette
The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation, and Communication.
—Harold S. Geneen
The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.
—J. Paul Getty
Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.
—Louis V. Gerstner
The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit . . . a reputation, character.
—John D. Rockefeller
It is true that there is a fine line between entrepreneurship and insanity. Crazy people see and feel things that others don’t. But you have to believe that everything is possible. If you believe it, those around you will believe it too.
—Anita Roddick
That’s one thing about me. I’m my own businessman. I’m my own person. The team I built taught me how to get into business, how to run a business. They gave me the knowledge I needed to have. But now I’m on my own.
—Ervin “Magic” Johnson
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
You can never be comfortable with your success, you’ve got to be paranoid you’re going to lose it.
—Louis V. Gerstner
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
—H. L. Hunt
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
—Henry Ford
If you hesitate, some bolder hand will stretch out before you and get the prize.
—Phineas T. Barnum
Somehow I can’t believe there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four Cs. They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy and the greatest of these is Confidence.
—Walt Disney
When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.
—Armand Hammer
Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.
—Edward H. Harriman
Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition—in having put forth the best within you.
—Henry J. Kaiser
The most important piece of advice that I could give [people starting out] is to take advantage of the tremendous reservoir of knowledge that’s out there today. Spend some time learning how the world has evolved. There are a lot of good lessons in history, and other peoples’ experiences in the past, that could be exactly the solution to the problem you’re looking for.
—Frederick W. Smith
The idea of an entrepreneur is really thinking out of the box and taking risks and stepping up to major challenges. You can be entrepreneurial even if you don’t want to be in business.
—Steve Case
If you don’t have daily objectives, you qualify as a dreamer.
—Zig Ziglar
You’ve got to start with your gut, with something you are really passionate about, for a good reason. You won’t get there by sitting in a closet and thinking, “Boy I know the world must want this.”
—Charles Schwab
Capital isn’t scarce; vision is.
—Sam Walton
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.
—Henry Ford
One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned recently is that when you don’t know what to do, you should do nothing until you figure out what to do because a lot of times you feel like you are pressed against the wall, and you’ve got to make a decision. You never have to do anything. Don’t know what to do? Do nothing.
—Oprah Winfrey
The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs.
—Alfred P. Sloan
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
—Walt Disney
You can do so much in 10 minutes’ time. Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good. Divide your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity.
—Ingvar Kamprad
In life and business, there are two cardinal sins ... The first is to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not act at all.
—Carl Icahn
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste time.
—Henry Ford
Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
—Frederick W. Smith
Always think outside the box and embrace opportunities that appear, wherever they might be.
—Lakshmi Mittal
Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours.
—T. Boone Pickens
The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that’s always been my philosophy.
—Peter Lynch
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches.
—Napoleon Hill
The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart’s attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it. When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.
—Vera Wang
I learned to embrace risk, as long as it was well thought out and, in a worst-case scenario, I’d still land on my feet.
—Eli Broad
Everything we would ever need to become rich and powerful and sophisticated is within our reach. The major reason that so few take advantage of all that we have is simply, neglect.
—Jim Rohn
The way of the pioneer is always rough.
—Harvey S. Firestone
How do you teach obsession, because more often than not it’s obsession that drives an entrepreneur’s vision? Why would you march to a different drumbeat if you are instinctively part of the crowd?
—Anita Roddick
Learn how to be a loser, because it’s important to be a loser to be a winner.
—Sanford I. Weil
I learned that we can do anything, but we can’t do everything ... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
—Dan Millman
If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.
—Richard M. DeVos
You have to have a great tolerance for pain! You have to work so hard and have so much enthusiasm for one thing that most other things in your life have to be sacrificed.
—Howard Schultz
There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.
—Alfred P. Sloan
The lesson here is that if you want to get really rich, go into business for yourself. In a capitalistic society, the biggest rewards go to capitalists, not to managers.
—Theodore Waitt
Don’t worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.
—Walter Annenberg
There are always opportunities through which businessmen can profit handsomely if they will only recognize and seize them.
—J. Paul Getty
The best route to the top is to own the company.
—Lewis Bookwalter Ward
You know, sometimes people never get to learn how successful they could have been because they give up too easily.
—Russell Simmons
I believe that women entrepreneurship and innovation are not only opportunities for personal financial growth but can be vehicles to bring about positive change in our communities, to eliminate poverty.
—Sheila C. Johnson
The long and short of it for me is that the entrepreneur is the one who at the end decides yes or no and I like that even though it’s a lot of responsibility.
—Giorgio Armani
Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive, and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.
—Elon Musk
Time is our most precious asset, we should invest it wisely.
—Michael Levy
I want to see how it works. If it doesn’t work, then I’ll use the same line that Steve Jobs uses: “Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes.”
—Peter van Stolk
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
Forget about the pie in the sky, get yours here and now.
—Frederick “Reverend Ike” Eikerenkootter
I’m an entrepreneur. I like building companies, but I also like building projects. The question for me is how do you get more change, more outof-the-box thinking, and more focused on scaling in the charitable sector.
—Steve Case
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.
—Henry Ford
There was nothing on the market that I felt was any good, so I decided to make something myself.
—Julie Aigner
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
—Malcolm S. Forbes
Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.
—J. Willard Marriott
It’s all to do with the training: you can do
a lot if you’re properly trained.
—Queen Elizabeth II
Before you try to convince anyone else, be sure you are convinced, and if you cannot convince yourself, drop the subject.
—John Henry Patterson
Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
—Mary Kay Ash
If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.
—Ray Kroc
I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren’t making some mistakes, you aren’t taking enough chances.
—John Sculley
Engage in one kind of business only, and stick to it faithfully until you succeed, or until your experience shows that you should abandon it.
—Phineas T. Barnum
[We stop growing] if we start being afraid of taking risks and if we start diminishing our creative pertinence. We should always aim at doing more-creative endeavors, not in terms of volume but in terms of more creativity and more sharing.
—Guy Laliberte
Toil and production are two distinguishing characteristics of a creative man.
—Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum
A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.
—Brian Tracy
Capital isn’t that important in business. Experience isn’t that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas.
—Harvey S. Firestone
I’ve heard of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. But I’ve never heard of Someday.
—Frederick “Reverend Ike” Eikerenkootter
Whether you’ve found your calling, or if you’re still searching, passion should be the fire that drives your life’s work.
—Michael Dell
When we started Google, we thought “Oh, we might fail,” and we almost didn’t do it. We had all this internal risk that we had just invented . . . fear of failing and doing something new ... In order to do stuff that matters, you need to overcome that.
—Larry Page
It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.
—Richard M. DeVos
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
—Henry Ford
When you lose small businesses, you lose big ideas. People who own their own businesses are their own bosses. They are independent thinkers. They know they can’t compete by imitating the big guys; they have to innovate. So they are less obsessed with earnings than they are with ideas.
—Ted Turner
Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.
—David Ogilvy
When I started eBay, it was a hobby, an experiment to see if people could use the Internet to be empowered through access to an efficient market. I actually wasn’t thinking about it in terms of a social impact. It was really about helping people connect around a sphere of interest so they could do business.
—Pierre Omidyar
First, I see what is needed in the marketplace. The next thing is I ask what’s out there. What you don’t want to do is come up with a product and then find out that someone is successfully marketing a good product and can take business away.
—Ron Popeil
Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
—Napoleon Hill
Vision is perhaps our greatest strength . . . it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.
—Li Ka-shing
Start out with an ideal and end up with a deal.
—Karl Albrecht
If you’re going to succeed in growing market share, you need to have the product on the shelf, . . . Our strategy is to be in stock and provide real value for consumers. The last thing we want to do is pass up an opportunity to take advantage of a trend we see taking place in our stores.
—Richard Schulze
If the specialist cannot effectively perform his role, then we need to look for alternatives including the electronic matching of buyers and sellers, with no human intervention.
—Maurice Greenberg
And learn that when you do make a mistake, you’ll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it and bury it, and it becomes a much bigger mistake, and maybe a fatal mistake.
—Sanford I. Weill
I swore I was going to exclusively collect assets and not liabilities for the rest of my life. I swore never to take gambles I couldn’t back up, or that I couldn’t afford to lose. And, I’ve stuck with that ever since.
—Tim Blixseth
I am an extreme optimist, while [my husband] likes to play the devil’s advocate. He wants to know the worst thing that can happen. I don’t even want to think about the worst case. I provide the discipline and stick-to-it-iveness.
—Jenny Craig
If I had some idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?
—Richard M. DeVos
Nothing is an obstacle unless you say it is.
—Wally Amos
I’m willing to make a serious investment in an idea and take two to two and one-half years of my life to create it, to get behind it and understand it and take it to the marketplace.
—Ron Popeil
The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side. You just have to hang in through that.
—George Lucas
You must keep your mind on the objective, not on the obstacle.
—William Handolph Hearst
I just don’t like to sit around and wait for something to happen. It’s more fun making it happen.
—Joyce Hall
I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
—Sam Walton
Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you’ll be able to see farther.
—J. P. Morgan
I feel sorry for the person who can’t get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.
—Walter Chrysler
Endless meetings, sloppy communications, and red tape steal the entrepreneur’s time.
—James L. Hayes
I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It’s done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.
—Richard Branson
You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.
—Henry Ford
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. It is capable of being presented as a discipline, capable of being learned, capable of being practiced.
—Peter F. Drucker
Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
—Bertie Charles Forbes
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
—Henry J. Kaiser
I teach something called The Law of Probabilities, which says the more things you try, the more likely one of them will work. The more books you read, the more likely one of them will have an answer to a question that could solve the major problems of your life . . . make you wealthier, solve a health problem, whatever it might be.
—Jack Canfield
Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
—J. Paul Getty
Fortune cannot be flattered by such fetish worship. But she can be wooed and won by hard work.
—Lord Beaverbrook
To me, failure is only a way of communicating that it is not working. Stop what you’re doing and try something else until it works. The one thing that I think is critical in the entrepreneurial spirit is that it’s all attitude. If you think you can, then you’re half way there. If you say, “I can’t,” then you’re defeated.
—Debbi Fields
In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
—J. Paul Getty
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
Many a fortune has slipped through a man’s fingers because he was engaged in too many occupations at a time.
—Phineas T. Barnum
I don’t think of myself as a poor, deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
—Oprah Winfrey
The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.
—David Geffen
Those fighting for free enterprise and free competition do not defend the interests of those rich today. They want a free hand left to unknown men who will be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow ...
—Ludwig von Mises
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the troublemaking individual.
—Mason Cooley
Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one’s aim.
—John D. Rockefeller
Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.
—George Gilder
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Fall.
—Bertie Charles Forbes
Don’t be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
—Akio Morita
Success is the sum of details.
—Harvey S. Firestone
If a person is not willing to make a mistake,
you’re never going to do anything right.
—Sanford I. Weill
Rules are sometimes a problem when you’re a creative entrepreneur.
—Russell Simmons
In all honesty, I wouldn’t say that the business end of it came with any kind of ease. It was more Darwinian. You have to learn business if you’re going to be self-employed and survive. If you’re a bad businessperson and you’re an entrepreneur, you’re going to be out of business.
—Todd McFarlane
One of the best classes I ever took was entrepreneurship in my freshman year ... There is much more to starting a business than just understanding finance, accounting, and marketing. Teaching kids what has worked with startup companies and learning about experiences that others have had could really make a difference.
—Mark Cuban
Don’t spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity that you miss the right opportunity.
—Michael Dell
Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don’t do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.
—John Johnson
The entrepreneur is not really interested in doing the work; he is interested in creating the way the company operates. In that regard, the entrepreneur is an inventor. He or she loves to invent, but does not love to manufacture or sell or distribute what he or she invents.
—Michael Gerber
Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past successes and challenging ourselves. I don’t believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.
—Guy Laliberte
I didn’t know enough about business to realize how bad we were doing. And I didn’t have the concept that you should quit at something. I can think of so many reasons why we shouldn’t have made it. We were on the edge continuously.
—Fred DeLuca
If you believe that some day it’s going to happen, some day it probably will happen. You just have to make sure you’re there when it’s happening, and ideally you’re at the front of the parade, and the principle beneficiary of when it happens, but it’s not a kind of thing where you just sort of sit back and wait.
—Steve Case
My father said: You must never try to make all the money that’s in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputation for always making all the money, you won’t have many deals.
—J. Paul Getty
There is no better chance to train managers than in a startup, where they have the opportunity to see the entire company as it grows.
—Gordon Moore
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
An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.
—Roy Ash
When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for everyone telling you you’re nuts.
—Larry Ellison
But business—you have to get into the numbers, research and asking people what their needs and wants are, picking the right locations. There’s a lot that goes into business. It’s not just, “OK, I want to be a businessman.” Boom—go with something, and hope they come in. It doesn’t work like that.
—Ervin “Magic” Johnson
In business, you have an opportunity to lead and you have an opportunity to follow. Companies and entrepreneurs that are successful tend to lead.
—Peter van Stolk
When celebration of noble failure becomes institutionalized, people within the organization are more willing to reassess earlier decisions. I’m sure luck helps every successful entrepreneur. But it doesn’t come [without] a lot of preparation and hard work.
—Charles Schwab
When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.
—Henry J. Kaiser
If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.
—Charles Revson
Waste your money and you’re only out of money, but waste your time and you’ve lost a part of your life.
—Michael LeBoeuf
I have developer’s disease. I love to sit at a drafting table and draw plans for hotels, wrestling with problems of traffic and the flow of people. That’s what turns me on.
—Steve Wynn
Once you lose everything, what’s the worst that’s going to happen to you? You develop a self-assurance.
—Roberto Goizueta
Think. Think about your appearance, associations, actions, ambitions, accomplishment.
—Thomas Watson
Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.
—Victor Kiam
Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiseling and scraping and polishing.
—Bertie Charles Forbes
Potential entrepreneurs are outsiders. They are people who imagine things as they might be, not as they are, and have the drive to change the world around them. Those are skills that business schools do not teach.
—Anita Roddick
Unfortunately, there is a flip side to having access to plentiful capital. It means that too many people without experience in building businesses have too much money.
—Henry Kravis
All I did my first year at Vogue was Xerox. But my father said to me, “Keep doing it. You’re learning the business from the ground up.” And he was right.
—Vera Wang
We’re not afraid of risking what was our success yesterday in order to explore some new field. “We’re adventurous. We like the challenge of unknown territory, unknown artistic field, and that’s what stimulates us.”
—Guy Laliberte
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling never fails of employment.
—Thomas Jefferson
As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.
—Henry Kravis
The long and short of it for me is that the entrepreneur is the one who at the end decides yes or no and I like that even though it’s a lot of responsibility.
—Giorgio Armani
After the idea, there is plenty of time to learn the technology.
—Sir James Dyson
If I’ve learned one thing in all my years in the business, it’s that often things don’t work out the way you want at first. But that doesn’t mean you should give up. You’ve got to put your head down and do the work. There are no shortcuts.
—Russell Simmons
I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it.
—Wally Amos
You have to be open-minded when those early opportunities present themselves. Take advantage of them whether they’re going to make you a lot of money or not.
—Rachel Ray
Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to make a better article.
—Philip Armour
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
You only have one thing to sell in life, and that’s yourself.
—Henry Kravis
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
—Henry Ford
One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished tasks.
—Malcolm S. Forbes
When thinking about starting a business, I think it’s actually better to start in a trough and come to market in a peak, than the other way around.
—Elon Musk
I think if you study—if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else.
—Milton Hershey
Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools ... but they must be kept to a minimum.
—Jeffrey Immelt
You have to schedule it. You have to plan the opportunity to think about your business and plan what you’re going to do. Otherwise you’re just a hamster running on a treadmill; you’re never going to get anywhere. You’ve got to schedule it. Strategic planning is an important part of running any business and the more so for businesses that operating in multiple states and countries.
—Jim Sinegal
There is such a thing as a natural-born entrepreneur, for whom the entrepreneurial urge drives everything, and who can make a business out of almost anything. But the accidental entrepreneur like me has to fall into the opportunity or be pushed into it. Then the entrepreneurial spirit eventually catches on.
—Gordon Moore
Inside of every problem lies an opportunity.
—Robert Kiyosaki
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
—John D. Rockefeller
For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
—Mary Kay Ash
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation, the changes and their symptoms that indicate opportunities for successful innovation. And they need to know and to apply the principles of successful innovation.
—Peter F. Drucker
If you go through life convinced that your way is always best, all the new ideas in the world will pass you by.
—Akio Morita
If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.
—Alfred P. Sloan
I’d love to build a company that will continue to make movies well beyond me someday. And I’d like to help start something great, even investing in it myself.
—Steven Spielberg
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.
—Amelia E. Barr
I believe in being an innovator. Tomorrow can be a wonderful age.
—Walt Disney
Hard work certainly goes a long way. These days a lot of people work hard, so you have to make sure you work even harder and really dedicate yourself to what you are doing and setting out to achieve.
—Lakshmi Mittal
Many persons are always kept poor, because they are too visionary. Every project looks to them like certain successes, and therefore they keep changing from one business to another, always in hot water, always “under the harrow.”
—Phineas T. Barnum
The cover-your-butt mentality of the workplace will get you only so far. The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business—but it’s a whole lot more fun, don’t you think?
—Bill Rancic
It’s important to remember one thing that is essential for any entrepreneurial organization. Do what you do well. Look at other things as incremental opportunities, but don’t change the basis of what you do well.
—Gordon Moore
I don’t care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don’t harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you’re never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants.
—Zig Ziglar
Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.
—Victor Kiam
The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.
—Silvio Berlusconi
Young entrepreneurs should spend an awful lot of time thinking about what they want to go into.
—John Kluge
If something doesn’t work, then you know what not to do.
—Russell Simmons
Go work for somebody and get paid to learn. It’s tempting to think you can go off and do your own thing, but there is so much to learn in ways you’d never know.
—Vera Wang
When you’re a self-made man you start very early in life. In my case it was at nine years old when I started bringing income into the family. You get a drive that’s a little different, maybe a little stronger, than somebody who inherited.
—Kirk Kerkorian
When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, “Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?” That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.
—Elon Musk
I’ve seen again a lot of people go through this life, who are working so hard, they wake up one day and realize that those things that they said, “I’ll do that someday, I’ll do that someday,” well, that someday is today.
—George Lucas
The Lord will provide, but it’s a good idea to give the Lord a little help.
—Joyce Hall
My son is now an entrepreneur. That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job.
—Ted Turner
Believe in your dream. People may tell you that you won’t make it, that you’re wasting your time. If you keep your dream in mind, have done your research and are willing to work hard, you can make it come true.
—Dave Thomas