40 powerhouse entrepreneurship quotes
Post on 17-Oct-2014
979 views
DESCRIPTION
A collection of quotes on entrepreneurship for those times when you need some inspirationTRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
![Page 2: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
True innovation is coming up with a product that the customer didn’t even know they needed.
J. Paul Getty
American Industrialist
![Page 3: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you
Tony Hsiesh
Co-founder, Zappos
![Page 4: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Don’t spend so much of time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity
Michel Dell
Founder Dell
![Page 5: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.
Sean Parker
Famous Entrepreneur
![Page 6: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone. Know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.
Dave Thomas
Founder, Wendy’s
![Page 7: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Starting your own business is like riding a roller coaster. There are highs and lows and every turn you take is another twist.
The lows are really low, but the highs can be really high. You have to be strong, keep your stomach tight, and ride along with the roller coaster that you started.”
Lindsay Manseau
Photographer and entrepreneur
![Page 8: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
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
Founder, Mrs. Fields Cookies
![Page 9: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
It’s hard to do a really good job on anything you don’t think about in the shower.
Paul Graham
YCombinator co-founder
![Page 10: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.
Michael Arrington
TechCrunch founder and co-editor
![Page 11: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day
Joel Spolsky
Stack Overflow co-founder
![Page 12: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Behold the turtle; he makes progress only when he sticks his neck out
Bruce Levin
Have to check
![Page 13: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning
Bill Gates
Microsoft co-founder
![Page 14: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.
Roy Ash
Co-founder of Litton Industries
![Page 15: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t, so you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t
Anonymous
Very Well Said
![Page 16: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon seem inevitable
Christopher Reeve
American actor, director, producer, writer,
and lobbyis
![Page 17: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to production
Joseph A. Schumpeter
An American Economist
![Page 18: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer
Nolan Bushnell
Founder of Atari and Chuck E
![Page 19: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
As an entrepreneur you have to feel like you can jump out of an aeroplane because you’re confident that you’ll catch a bird flying by.
Reed Hastings
CEO of Netflix
![Page 20: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
There Is No Elevator To Success, You Have To Take The Stairs
Author unknown
One of the Best
![Page 21: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful
Jeff Bezos
CEO of Amazon
![Page 22: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily
Zig Ziglar
Best-selling author and motivational
speaker
![Page 23: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming
Zig Ziglar
Best-selling author and motivational
speaker
![Page 24: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure
Paulo Coelho
The Brazilian author
![Page 25: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
An entrepreneur without funding is a musician without an instrument
Robert A. Rice Jr
Author of MMO Evolution
![Page 26: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
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
Owner of Remington Products
![Page 27: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
You must fall in love with what you do, because being an entrepreneur is a lot of hard work, and overcoming a lot of adversity.
Ken Field
Real Estate Magnate
![Page 28: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)
The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect
Adam Osborne
American Entrepreneur
![Page 29: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/29.jpg)
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps – we must step up the stairs
Vance Hayner
Christian Writer
![Page 30: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/30.jpg)
Quality is the best business plan John Lasseter
Pixar Chief Creative Officer
![Page 31: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/31.jpg)
The road to success is always under construction
Arnold Palmer
American professional golfer
![Page 32: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/32.jpg)
When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about, that’s probably a good one to pursue
Josh James
Omniture CEO and co-founder
![Page 33: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/33.jpg)
The winning strategy in any start-up business is, 'Think big but start small
Carmen Busquets
Venezuelan Entrepreneur
![Page 34: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/34.jpg)
Anyone with a great product to sell should never criticize competing products. Your product should sell on its own merit. Consumers want the best of the best, not the best of a bad situation
Steve Jobs
Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.
![Page 35: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/35.jpg)
Anyone with a great product to sell should never criticize competing products. Your product should sell on its own merit. Consumers want the best of the best, not the best of a bad situation
Steve Jobs
Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.
![Page 36: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/36.jpg)
Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow
Mary Anne Radmacher
An artist, an author and an Apronary
![Page 37: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/37.jpg)
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Chinese Proverb
Very True
![Page 38: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/38.jpg)
It's really rare for people to have a successful start-up in this industry without a breakthrough product.
I'll take it a step further. It has to be a radical product. It has to be something where, when people look at it, at first they say, 'I don't get it, I don't understand it. I think it's too weird, I think it's too unusual.'
Marc Andreessen
Founder, Netscape
![Page 39: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/39.jpg)
About half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance
Steve Jobs
Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Apple Inc.
![Page 40: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/40.jpg)
Don’t wait for your ship to come in – swim out to it!
Cathy Hopkins
Author
![Page 41: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/41.jpg)
Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual
Natalie Clifford Barney
Playwright, poet and novelist
![Page 42: 40 Powerhouse Entrepreneurship Quotes](https://reader033.vdocuments.us/reader033/viewer/2022051512/5440dae6b1af9fff4b8b457c/html5/thumbnails/42.jpg)