Entrepreneurship Quotes

"Your margin is my opportunity." "Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough" "Failure and invention are inseparable twins. To invent you have to experiment, and if you know in advance that it's going to work, it's not an experiment." "I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it's not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that's not why you do it. You do it because you have somethin" "If you're watching your competitors, you're unlikely to invent a bunch of stuff on your own." "The best way to predict the future is to invent it" "Learn from failure. If you are an entrepreneur and your first venture wasn’t a success, welcome to the club!" "The biggest risk is not taking any risk" "All of my best decisions in business and in life have been made with heart, intuition, guts... not analysis." "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." "If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die" "In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts." "I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out." "You have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate." "We, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market." "There is no perfect fit when you're looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around." "If you want to be a millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline." "Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line." "Entrepreneurial business favors the open mind. It favors people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely for the joy of doing so." "Building a business is not rocket science, it’s about having a great idea and seeing it through with integrity."