“Entrepreneurship is about seeing opportunity, even in the face of challenge.”— Kunal Gupta, linkedin.com
“All of us who decide to start a company, we are kind of broken as people.”— Alexis Ohanian, cnbc.com
“If I were going to start a business today, I’d build it around Alexa and Google Home. If I was 15 or 20 or 25, and you know, back in the day when I was working as a bartender and started a company, I would learn ... because Alexa skills and scripting Alexa skills is really, really easy. But everybod…”— Mark Cuban, recode.net
“I want the party to be perceived as a party that simultaneously appreciates traditional principles and founding principles – like limited government, individual freedom, and personal responsibility, federalism, appreciation for our Constitution, and the prosperity it has given us – while also being…”— Dan Crenshaw, dailywire.com
“Any entrepreneur, no matter how smart, is only right part of the time.”— Mark Pincus, mastersofscale.com
“Being entrepreneurial means you will fail. You just have to be willing to listen to people who tell you something is broken, and then fix it.”— Howard Schultz, amazon.com
“At moments, you’re a visionary who sees things no one else can. At other moments, you aren’t growing fast enough, your product is breaking, and your idea is a farce.”— James Cole, thehhub.com
“While I did heed the advice eventually, I can say with certainty not doing so sooner is my biggest regret. It’s easy to be drawn to the allure of stories where founders didn’t listen to advice and benefited from it, and I was definitely guilty of that. It clouded my judgment.”— Kevin Gibbon, linkedin.com
“Then, things changed. Consumer growth slowed. People close to me and the business began to warn that chasing consumers was the wrong strategy. After all, how often do consumers ship things? I didn’t listen.”— Kevin Gibbon, linkedin.com
“At the time, I approached everything I did as an engineer. Rather than change direction, I tasked the team with expanding geographically and dreaming up innovative features and growth tactics to further penetrate the consumer market.”— Kevin Gibbon, linkedin.com
“If you can't sell, if you can't influence, good luck getting your business off the ground.”— Jordan Belfort, youtube.com
“It's not how you actually perform that earns you the respect of your peers. Its the fact that you went out and actually did it.”— Jordan Belfort, youtube.com
“I’ve come back to this slide over and over for inspiration when thinking about new concepts or product ideas. It’s a great exercise in clarity. Can I boil down the idea into something as simple as a column and a row?”— Jason Fried, m.signalvnoise.com
“If you try to be an entrepreneur just to make money and not to satisfy the fire in your belly, you will fail.”— Ken Blanchard, twitter.com
“There are many things that can knock us down, so why waste one minute worrying about what we can't control?”— Chip Gaines, amazon.com
“Perhaps you have to be crazy to choose the life of an entrepreneur, but you have to be stupid to choose it without ever counting the cost.”— Chip Gaines, amazon.com
“When competitors copy you, they copy all the mistakes as well as the successes. Copying alone isn't a strategy.”— Paul Adams, twitter.com
“Good communication is like real magic. You can change a situation; you can make the impossible possible. It's uncanny to see it happen; it's almost spooky to realize you're behind it.”— Guillaume Wolf, amazon.com
“Slaved for the man and I broke my fuckin' back. So you can take your nine-to-five and shove it up your ass.”— Post Malone, open.spotify.com
“There is no destination in business or life. It’s all journey — all of it.”— Marie Forleo, marieforleo.com