Entrepreneurship Quotes

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." "Learn from failure. If you are an entrepreneur and your first venture wasn’t a success, welcome to the club!" "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" "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." "All of my best decisions in business and in life have been made with heart, intuition, guts... not analysis." "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 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." "If you're watching your competitors, you're unlikely to invent a bunch of stuff on your own." "If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die" "Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough" "The biggest risk is not taking any risk" "The best way to predict the future is to invent it" "If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going" "Every startup should address a real and demonstrated need in the world. If you build a solution to a problem lots of people have, it's so easy to sell your product to the world" "In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone." "To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials." "Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want." "Building a business is not rocket science, it’s about having a great idea and seeing it through with integrity." "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."