Entrepreneurship Quotes

"To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities." "Initiative is doing the right thing without being told." "Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive, and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell." "If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion." "As a company grows, everything needs to scale, including the size of your failed experiments. If the size of your failures isn’t growing, you’re not going to be inventing at a size that can actually move the needle. Amazon will be experimenting at the righ" "I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn’t really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going." "Entrepreneurship is about turning what excites you in life into capital, so that you can do more of it and move forward with it." "A business is simply an idea to make other people’s lives better." "Whatever business you are in, every company can shoot for the start in their own way." "My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around." "You’ve got to take risks if you’re going to succeed. I would much rather ask forgiveness than permission." "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." "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." "Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming." "If you spot an opportunity and are really excited by it, throw yourself into it with everything you've got." "A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts." "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." "Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want."