Entrepreneur Who Started Quotes & Sayings

I've been an entrepreneur since I was 18. I started a company with a bunch of buddies that got funded in my senior year, and that's when I finished school. It was called Scour, a peer-to-peer service, file-sharing. — Travis Kalanick

I've been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies. — Marc Andreessen

You need money to make money is nonsense! Entrepreneur people who started with nothing but an idea. — Timi Nadela

It was a chance encounter with a biotech entrepreneur from Ireland that got me started as an entrepreneur in India, because I partnered this Irish company in setting up India's first biotech company. — Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Critics have stepped up their attacks on the President for authorizing the National Security Agency to listen to international communications of known al Qaeda members or affiliated terrorists during a time of war. The American people expect their leaders to stay a step ahead of the enemy, and the National Security Agency authorization is a critical tool in the War on Terror that saves lives and protects civil liberties at the same time. — Scott McClellan

There's an entrepreneur right now, scared to death, making excuses, saying, 'It's not the right time just yet.' There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance, and start your business. — Kevin Plank

If a kitten without a collar walks into your life, you have to keep him. Timing is everything. — Daryl Wood Gerber

I've never been very keen on women who hang their sex round their neck like baubles. I think it should be discovered. It's more interesting to discover the sex in a woman than it is to have it thrown at you, like a Marilyn Monroe or those types. To me they are rather vulgar and obvious. — Alfred Hitchcock

As an entrepreneur making decisions for your company, always go back to your first principles of what's important to you and why you started in the first place. — Matt Mullenweg

I did what I think a lot of entrepreneurs do. I started putting up a lot of ads on Craigslist for interns. — Blake Mycoskie

Konosuke Matsushita was a visionary entrepreneur. He started working very young as a teenager, and he eventually created Panasonic to become a truly global company. — Tadashi Yanai

I started, me by myself, found a great co-founder, got up to 95 people, and then it ended with me by myself again. — Dan Stuart

We should surround ourselves with people who feel like abundance. — Cheryl Strayed

Sometimes she wondered if she was doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past, since she'd trained herself not to look back at it. — Cinda Williams Chima

Obviously, many people may remember me as the first winner of 'The Apprentice,' but prior to that, I was an entrepreneur. I started my first business when I was in college, and then getting my lucky break was when Donald Trump hired me on. — Bill Rancic

I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that. — Biz Stone

I never knew anything other than wanting to be an entrepreneur. I tried my first business when I was 6 years old, and I started another business when I was 8. I don't think I knew anything besides that. — Daymond John

Now we understand much more clearly. why people from all over the world want to come to New York and to America. It's called freedom. — Rudy Giuliani

(connected, I may say, with such activity of the affections as even the preoccupations of a work too special to be abdicated could not uninterruptedly dissimulate); — George Eliot

This is a book about the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. You might even add a seventh, retail stores, which Jobs did not quite revolutionize but did reimagine. In addition, he opened the way for a new market for digital content based on apps rather than just websites. Along the way he produced not only transforming products but also, on his second try, a lasting company, endowed with his DNA, that is filled with creative designers and daredevil engineers who could carry forward his vision. In August 2011, right before he stepped down as CEO, the enterprise he started in his parents' garage became the world's most valuable company. — Walter Isaacson

I never thought of myself as an entrepreneur before I started this. I just like to build things. — Andrew Mason

I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy. — Naveen Jain

The one thing all entrepreneurs have in common is that they started. The one thing everyone else has in common is that they haven't. — Ryan Lilly

I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I started my own software company in high school and went to college to study entrepreneurship. — Marc Benioff

What entrepreneurs quickly learn is that they need to price their product at least 2.3 times its cost to allow for at least one 50 percent margin for them and another 50 percent margin for their retailers (1.5 x 1.5 = 2.25). That first 50 percent margin for the entrepreneur is really mostly covering the hidden costs of doing business at a scale that they hadn't thought of when they first started, — Chris Anderson