If your consumer app isn’t being used while someone sits on the toilet, it’s probably not going to work.
– Brian Norgard
Just like an artist can look at a blank canvas, and from that, create a masterpiece, founders do the same.
– Steve Blank
Where one person sees a crisis, another can see opportunity.
– Ryan Holiday
I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn’t fall down.
– Al Neuharth
Those with brains and balls become artisans/entrepreneurs.
– Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Side projects create the greatest companies because they begin as freedom machines, labors of love and truth vehicles. Precious time is traded to pursue something pure.
– Brian Norgard
Focus on doing one thing. Really well. As specific as possible. Don’t over-intellectualize it. Just make something people want.
– Daniel Gross
Every restaurant you ate at, every car you’ve drove, every book you’ve read, every movie you’ve watched, every podcast you’ve heard, started as an idea in someone’s mind, then they made it appear. They aren’t smarter, luckier or better than you, they just took a chance on themselves.
– Chris Johnson
For every successful entrepreneur you hear about on TV, there are 999 failed one eating canned sardines for dinner.
– Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Top skill for entrepreneurs: Being great at ignoring what everyone else is doing.
– Jason Fried
Create value by reducing uncertainty.
– Jack Butcher
1. Fish.
2. Teach people to fish.
3. Build better fishing rods.
– Sahil Lavingia
Everyone has an idea, what sets people apart is execution.
– Shane Parrish
Stupid people go to college but “smart people own them”.
– Chetan Bhagat
Entrepreneurship is having an idea to do something great and not entirely have a plan on how to do it but the drive and will power to make it work.
– Michael Bloomberg
Being an entrepreneur isn’t really about starting a business. It’s a way of looking at the world: seeing opportunity where others see obstacles, taking risks when others take refuge.
– Michael Bloomberg
The next day after I got fired, literally the next day, I started a new company.
– Michael Bloomberg
I think entrepreneurs… can think long term and find solutions and go in the way for long term solutions and not short-term.
– Carlos Slim
Almost everyone who has had an idea that’s somewhat revolutionary or wildly successful was first told they’re insane.
– Larry Page
Young entrepreneurs will make a difference in the Indian ecosystem.
– Ratan Tata
Apart from values and ethics which I have tried to live by, the legacy I would like to leave behind is a very simple one – that I have always stood up for what I consider to be the right thing, and I have tried to be as fair and equitable as I could be.
– Ratan Tata
Entrepreneurship is about creating change, not just companies.
– Mark Zuckerberg
The most important thing that entrepreneurs should do is pick something they care about, work on it, but don’t actually commit to turning it into a company until it actually works.
– Mark Zuckerberg
It is important for young entrepreneurs to be adequately self-aware to know what they do not know.
– Mark Zuckerberg
The strongest thing you can cultivate as an entrepreneur is to not rely on luck but cultivating an ability to recognize fortunate situations when they are occurring.
– Jack Dorsey
If you are looking out for a business opportunity then keep any eye on problems people around you are facing.
You can’t be an entrepreneur for other people. You can’t start a company for other people. You have to love it more than you ever thought of loving something that wasn’t a human being. The demands will kick you down and rob your life – but yet, it is so rewarding.
– Blake Lively
Every entrepreneur talks about the passion you have for your work, and I think that’s what’s missing with a lot of women in business.
– Martha Stewart
Honesty and integrity are by far the most important assets of an entrepreneur.
– Zig Ziglar
Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.
– Jim Rohn