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I don't know any successful entrepreneur that doesn't have at least a handful of stories about the things they did that went horribly wrong.
Heidi Roizen
Entrepreneur
About
Horribly
Wrong
Know
Least
Handful
Did
Any
Stories
Successful
Things
The cool thing about a start-up - this is sort of the entrepreneur side of me - is that you can make it grow as much as you can. Or you can squander the talent as much as you want. But it's up to you.
Hilary Knight
Me
You
Entrepreneur
Side
About
Talent
Make
Sort
Up
Squander
Want
Much
Cool
Cool Thing
Grow
Thing
Start-Up
Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.
Ian Ziering
Success
Future
Entrepreneur
Past
Own
Projects
Future Success
No Guarantee
Direct
My Own
Learned
Began
Success Is
Produce
Guarantee
Don't buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind.
James Altucher
Buy
Day
You
Entrepreneur
Mind
Myth
Focused
Hours
Need
Sleep
Whether you're an entrepreneur, an employee, a student, a homemaker, a writer, it's time to start forgetting about all the ways the world has promised you safety and comfort.
James Altucher
Time
You
World
Entrepreneur
Safety
Ways
Promised
About
Student
Writer
Employee
Comfort
Forgetting
Whether
Homemaker
Start
I've never really thought of myself as an entrepreneur. I think of an entrepreneur as someone who wants to make a lot of money. That has never been at the top of my list.
James Goodnight
Myself
Money
Entrepreneur
Thought
Think
Top
Someone
Never
Make
Been
Lot
List
Wants
Really
Who
I've gotten more press than any entrepreneur could dream of - certainly more than I deserve - and I've never had a public relations firm working for me.
Jason Calacanis
Me
Entrepreneur
Relations
Press
Dream
More
Could
Never
Had
Firm
Gotten
Than
Any
Public
Working
Certainly
Public Relations
Deserve
For a first-time entrepreneur, there's nothing better than being in Silicon Valley because there is so much going on, and there's such a large number of inventors, that even a B level idea or a C level idea could be nurtured and be given venture capital there.
Jason Calacanis
Better
Entrepreneur
Nothing
Nurtured
Valley
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Given
Inventors
Could
Idea
Venture
Venture Capital
Because
Than
Going
Being
Capital
Much
Large
Even
Large Number
Level
Number
My passion is music, you know, and music influences culture, influences lifestyle, which leads me to 'Roc-A-Wear'. I was forced to be an entrepreneur, so that led me to be CEO of 'Roc-A-Fella' records, which lead to Def Jam.
Jay-Z
Music
Me
You
Culture
Entrepreneur
Passion
Records
Lifestyle
Lead
Leads
Know
Forced
Led
Jam
Influences
Which
CEO
No first-time entrepreneur has the business network of contacts needed to succeed. An incubator should be well integrated into the local business community and have a steady source of contacts and introductions.
Jay Samit
Business
Entrepreneur
Community
Incubator
Local
Steady
Network
Contacts
Well
Integrated
Source
Succeed
Business Community
Should
Needed
As a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and public company CEO, nothing irks me more than when a startup founder talks about wanting to cash in with an initial public offering.
Jay Samit
Me
Entrepreneur
Angel
Nothing
Startup
About
Cash
More
Investor
Talks
Than
Offering
Wanting
Public
Public Company
CEO
Initial
Company
Serial
Founder
As every entrepreneur and investor sifts through year-end data to predict the next trend or opportunity for financial success, there is a much easier way to accurately predict the future: hang out with those who are creating it.
Jay Samit
Success
Future
Financial
Entrepreneur
Opportunity
Trend
Predict
Every
Way
Those
Easier
Out
Data
Through
Investor
Accurately
Hang
Much
Next
Creating
Who
Numerous studies, and my own experience as a serial entrepreneur, have proven that companies with a diverse management team provide greater financial returns to investors.
Jay Samit
Experience
Management
Financial
Entrepreneur
Own
Numerous
Diverse
My Own
Studies
Investors
Returns
Greater
Proven
Provide
Management Team
Team
Companies
Serial
I want to create an environment where I can create technology, get it into the hands of someone to market it, and move on to other technologies so I can keep innovating. I want to be a serial entrepreneur: Incubate an idea, get it to a good state, and make that an enabler to get to the next state. It's every researcher's fantasy.
Jefferson Han
Good
Technology
Entrepreneur
Move On
Every
Other
State
Market
Someone
Environment
Idea
Make
Get
Hands
Move
Where
Want
Fantasy
Create
Next
Researcher
Serial
Keep
Technologies
If you spend your time away from work looking at emails and making sure your inbox went down to zero, that's not an effective way to spend your time as a CEO or an entrepreneur. Often times, those emails aren't that important.
Jennifer Hyman
Work
Time
You
Entrepreneur
Important
Looking
Down
Spend
Way
Emails
Those
Sure
Making
Effective
Effective Way
Times
Often
CEO
Your
Away
Zero
It's much easier for a middle class Indian entrepreneur to start up a computer company than it is for an Indian company to build roads and transportation systems suitable for a population that is getting wealthier and demanding more basic services.
Jerry A. Webman
Class
Entrepreneur
Demanding
Build
Suitable
Easier
Systems
Indian
More
Computer
Roads
Up
Than
Getting
Middle
Middle Class
Much
Transportation
Company
Population
Basic
Services
Start
Start-Up
I learned I'm not a good executive, I'm an entrepreneur and I'm creative. I have to go with my gut and do what I want to do.
Jerry Weintraub
Good
Creative
Entrepreneur
Gut
Executive
Learned
Go
Want
I am excited to join the Workday Board at an exciting time in the company's growth and look forward to leveraging my past experience as a technologist and entrepreneur to provide advice as they continue to look at new areas of growth.
Jerry Yang
Time
Experience
Entrepreneur
Advice
Past
Area
Join
Excited
Exciting
Exciting Time
New
Look
Am
Continue
Provide
Board
Forward
Company
Growth
I want to see a world in which every entrepreneur has access to the resources he or she needs to succeed, and where through the power of supportive communities - that means you and me - every resource can be made available.
Jessica Jackley
Needs
Me
You
World
Entrepreneur
Made
Power
Every
Resource
Resources
See
Through
He
He Or She
Supportive
She
Access
Where
Want
Which
Available
Succeed
Means
Communities
I walked into Relativity Records as a musician who could not be taken advantage of. That's why I wound up owning all my own publishing and making a deal that was quite advantageous for a new solo artist. But I really didn't think of myself as an entrepreneur.
Joe Satriani
Myself
Entrepreneur
Own
Think
Relativity
Musician
Solo
Solo Artist
Wound
My Own
Records
Could
Taken
Advantage
New
Deal
Making
Up
Walked
Artist
Quite
Owning
Really
Who
Why
Publishing
As an entrepreneur and public company CEO, I've dealt with dozens of rollouts, and when unveiling a new product, the operating approach should be, 'Hope for the best but prepare for the worst.'
John Delaney
Hope
Best
Entrepreneur
Approach
Worst
New
Operating
Dealt
Public
Public Company
CEO
Should
Product
Company
Prepare
Dozens
I had a very long and successful career as an entrepreneur, focused on the needs of small to midsize businesses.
John Delaney
Needs
Entrepreneur
Long
Focused
Small
Had
Very
Successful
Businesses
Career
The original entrepreneur may initiate the initial purpose, but, in a sense, like a parent that has children, the children have their own destiny, and at some point, that can veer off away from the wishes the parent might have for it.
John Mackey
Entrepreneur
Own
Sense
Destiny
Some
Parent
Purpose
Point
Wishes
Like
Off
May
Children
Might
Initial
Original
Initiate
Away
I'm an entrepreneur. I always have been. I am curious, and I enjoy solving problems.
John McAfee
Entrepreneur
Problems
Enjoy
Solving
Always
Am
Been
Curious
I'm an optimist. You can't be an entrepreneur if you're not essentially an optimist, so I'm an optimist by nature.
John Sculley
Nature
You
Entrepreneur
Optimist
Essentially
We look for the scrappy entrepreneur: the kind of person who will get things done without looking to spend money right away.
Jon Oringer
Money
Entrepreneur
Will
Looking
Spend
Kind
Look
Without
Person
Get
Scrappy
Done
Who
Away
Right
Things
Right Away
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