Entrepreneurship Quotes

"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." "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." "If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering." "Say yes and you'll figure it out afterwards" "You've got to be able to take rejection in order to succeed in the business." "Stay hungry, stay foolish." "The value of an idea lies in the using of it." "When you look at something like, go back in time when we started working on Kindle almost seven years ago…. There you just have to place a bet. If you place enough of those bets, and if you place them early enough, none of them are ever betting the company" "Me-too companies have not done that well over time." "If you decide that you’re going to do only the things you know are going to work, you’re going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table." "If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away." "I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure" "The path to success is to take massive, determined action." "Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes." "Entrepreneurship is like eating glass and walking on hot coals at the same time." "Fortunate are those who take the first steps." "An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea." "If you want swashbuckling action in your life, become an entrepreneur and give it a go." "One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes."