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I had been an independent entrepreneur from the beginning, and I felt I could do it myself. I didn't want to get a job.
David L. Wolper
Myself
Entrepreneur
Job
Beginning
Independent
Could
Had
Felt
Been
Get
Want
An entrepreneur must pitch a potential investor for what the company is worth as well as sell the dream on how much of a profit can be made.
Daymond John
Worth
Entrepreneur
Made
Profit
Dream
Must
Potential
Investor
Well
How
How Much
Sell
Pitch
Much
Company
As an entrepreneur, you love your business like a child, and you're taught to be laser-focused on the business.
Daymond John
Love
You
Business
Entrepreneur
Like
Child
Taught
Your
I'll say this: I can't think of one instance in my 20 years in venture capital in which I have wanted to sell a company before the entrepreneur.
Douglas Leone
Entrepreneur
Before
Think
Say
Instance
Venture
Venture Capital
Years
Sell
Wanted
Which
Capital
Company
Give me an entrepreneur with a lot of courage, gusto and who iterates rapidly, and I will back that person day in and day out.
Douglas Leone
Day
Me
Courage
Entrepreneur
Will
Back
Out
Rapidly
Gusto
Give
Give Me
Day-Out
Lot
Person
Who
I'm not really sure where it comes from, but every time I meet someone who says 'I really want to be an entrepreneur' but has no idea what they want to do, I really just think: 'This person is totally aimless.'
Dustin Moskovitz
Time
Entrepreneur
Every
Think
Every Time
Meet
Aimless
Says
No Idea
Totally
Someone
Idea
Sure
Person
Just
Where
Want
Really
Who
There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.
Dustin Moskovitz
Great
Entrepreneur
Important
Great Idea
Idea
Most
Most Important Thing
Important Thing
Being
The Most Important
Really
Thing
I am an entrepreneur, but not in the conventional sense. I have learnt business as time passed, but I do not have a B-school education.
Ekta Kapoor
Education
Time
Business
Entrepreneur
Sense
Learnt
Am
Passed
Conventional
If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker's bet. Sure, some entrepreneurs make a lot of money, but if you calculate the amount of stress-inducing work and time it takes and multiply that by the low likelihood of success and eventual payoff, it is not a great way to get rich.
Eric Ries
Success
Work
Time
Great
You
Money
Entrepreneur
Rich
Way
Some
Bet
Entrepreneurs
Takes
Calculate
Likelihood
Make
Great Way
Sure
Becoming
Goal
Lot
Get
Low
Your
Payoff
Sucker
Multiply
Eventual
Amount
I would say, as an entrepreneur everything you do - every action you take in product development, in marketing, every conversation you have, everything you do - is an experiment. If you can conceptualize your work not as building features, not as launching campaigns, but as running experiments, you can get radically more done with less effort.
Eric Ries
Work
You
Conversation
Entrepreneur
Building
Experiment
Action
Every
Everything
Marketing
Say
Launching
Would
Running
More
Features
Take
Development
Campaigns
Effort
Get
Done
Experiments
Product
Your
Less
Radically
As an entrepreneur, I knew that if my company failed, I could always try again. So I often felt that the only real risk of true financial ruin came from the possibility of a serious illness that either exceeded my insurance plans lifetime limits, or was not covered due to rescission.
Eric Ries
Financial
Entrepreneur
Try
Ruin
Possibility
Risk
Only
Exceeded
Could
Lifetime
Knew
True
Failed
Felt
Insurance
Always
Real
Limits
Due
Came
Covered
Often
Either
Again
Plans
Company
Illness
Serious
I said that if I were an industrialist or entrepreneur, I would invest in agriculture-based enterprises, for there is so much that can be done in manufacturing, in food preservation.
F. Sionil Jose
Food
Entrepreneur
Enterprises
Would
Invest
Said
Were
Done
Much
Manufacturing
Preservation
I don't like indecent, unearned wealth. But it is legitimate for an entrepreneur who has created something to make a good living.
Francois Hollande
Good
Wealth
Entrepreneur
Living
Good Living
Indecent
Something
Like
Make
Unearned
Legitimate
Created
Who
A lot of people say I was brilliant. I wasn't. I was an opportunist: a young entrepreneur who saw things and took advantage.
Frank Abagnale
People
Entrepreneur
Brilliant
Young
Took
Saw
Say
People Say
Advantage
Lot
Who
Things
Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps.
Fred Wilson
Entrepreneur
Caring
Having
Investors
Supportive
Being
Hard
Helps
It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.
Gary Hamel
Entrepreneur
Half
Before
Down
Project
Willing
Would-Be
Finding
Only
Investor
Takes
Most
Dead
Unusual
Times
Get
Stone
Turned
Companies
Dozen
Being an entrepreneur is my dream job, as it tests ones tenacity.
Gautam Adani
Entrepreneur
Job
Dream
Tenacity
Tests
Being
Arianna Huffington is only rich because of her man entrepreneur husband.
Gavin McInnes
Man
Entrepreneur
Husband
Rich
Only
Because
Her
Entrepreneurship isn't for everyone, and not everyone is going to be an entrepreneur, but women who turn to business, turn to economics, because there are people depending on them, I think that their creativity, their resilience, their spirit, embody what's best about entrepreneurship.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Best
Business
Women
Creativity
People
Entrepreneur
Economics
Think
Everyone
Embody
Spirit
About
Entrepreneurship
Because
Going
Depending
Them
Turn
Who
Resilience
A social entrepreneur finds market-based solutions for change. Because without a market-based solution, without a sustainable solution, you go nowhere.
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
You
Change
Entrepreneur
Solution
Solutions
Finds
Because
Without
Go
Sustainable
Social
Nowhere
I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold. No matter what I do - outside of sticking my tongue out - I tend to make money, and quite a bit in non-KISS stuff.
Gene Simmons
Money
Entrepreneur
Matter
Bit
Out
Classic
Tend
Outside
Stuff
Make
Sticking
Am
Quite
Quite A Bit
Mold
Tongue
By using the digital platform YouTube, I have been able to build and grow my content-creating business and am proud to call myself a successful female entrepreneur.
Gigi Gorgeous
Myself
Business
Entrepreneur
Digital
Build
YouTube
Able
Call
Female
Proud
Am
Been
Successful
Using
Grow
Platform
I've been lucky enough to be involved in a number of great startups, including eBay and Wikia as an entrepreneur and LinkedIn and Paypal as an investor.
Gil Penchina
Great
Entrepreneur
Startups
Enough
Investor
Involved
Been
LinkedIn
PayPal
Lucky
Including
Number
A mistake I've made is investing in my idea rather than the entrepreneur's. Sometimes I'm excited about an idea that is similar to the entrepreneur's idea - but not the same. A smart entrepreneur will convince me it is the same, until I write a check!
Gil Penchina
Me
Mistake
Sometimes
Entrepreneur
Smart
Will
Made
About
Similar
Rather
Write
Investing
Excited
Idea
Check
Until
Than
Same
Convince
Most venture capitalists won't read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact.
Guy Kawasaki
Business
Entrepreneur
Unless
Introduced
Contact
Most
Venture
Read
Them
Plan
Capitalists
If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.
Guy Kawasaki
You
Business
Entrepreneur
Job
Think
President
Stay
Makes
Current
Difference
Should
Your
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