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Entrepreneurship Quotes

"If you want swashbuckling action in your life, become an entrepreneur and give it a go."

― Richard Branson

"An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea."

"Fortunate are those who take the first steps."

― Paulo Coelho

"Entrepreneurship is like eating glass and walking on hot coals at the same time."

"Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes."

― Napoleon Hill

"The path to success is to take massive, determined action."

― Tony Robbins

"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."

"Your margin is my opportunity."

"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."

"If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away."

"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 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're watching your competitors, you're unlikely to invent a bunch of stuff on your own."

"Me-too companies have not done that well over time."

"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"

"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"