When it comes to brands and having the opportunity to be an entrepreneur, social media has really become a great outlet for people to become their own boss.
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.
I never knew anything other than wanting to be an entrepreneur. I tried my first business when I was 6 years old, and I started another business when I was 8. I don’t think I knew anything besides that.
My advice for any entrepreneur or innovator is to get into the food industry in some form so you have a front-row seat to what’s going on.
Any entrepreneur has to prepare for a lot of dark days, and they’ve got to really like what they are doing, and they have to have a reason for it to succeed.
I think of myself more as a designer than a serial entrepreneur. As a designer, the easiest way to see that something happens is to start a company and then be the boss, and then people have to do what you say.
Some entrepreneur needs to make a better bike seat.
I value an entrepreneur I can get behind and trust, because I know they are attempting to move forward in life.
A lot of the reason I wanted to become an entrepreneur and avoid working for others is that you get to create the world you want to live in and the company you want to work for, and I’ve loved that. It’s a part of entrepreneurship that women should really embrace.
The most direct path to achievement whether you’re an entrepreneur, a company executive, or a pro soccer player is to be a great performer and a great team member. This is also the secret to a meaningful career and self-fulfillment.
I have had some great successes and great failures. I think every entrepreneur has. I try to learn from all of them.
I think, as an entrepreneur, you have to see the unlimited amount of potential but concentrate on your day and just keep building.
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.
A person who sees a problem is a human being; a person who finds a solution is visionary; and the person who goes out and does something about it is an entrepreneur.
The success of the young entrepreneur will be the key to India’s transformation in the new millennium.
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.
Being an entrepreneur can be learned, and that is exactly what I have done. You don’t have to be born with it or have had the ‘lemonade stand.’ But, you do need to have the passion, devotion, conviction, and sheer will and drive to make it happen.
What I see as an entrepreneur is how much opportunity there is in China.
A lot of people say I was brilliant. I wasn’t. I was an opportunist: a young entrepreneur who saw things and took advantage.
America’s a country where you can come, you can be an entrepreneur, you can create great value. I don’t think you ever want to deter that from happening because this is a place where so many great businesses get created and started.
I actually hate being called an entrepreneur.
News organisations that have been around a while have a lot of traditions and ways of doing things that may have served them for many years but perhaps make them less flexible in the digital era. As an entrepreneur, it just makes more sense to start something new.
You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you’re an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party… My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.
As an entrepreneur, I like cutting to the chase and getting things done.
I’ve been able to become an entrepreneur and an independent artist.
In my view, product/market fit is the most important thing to get right as a startup entrepreneur. There’s a variety of ways to do it, but without solving some pain point that the customer gets so excited about they tell their friends, it’s really hard in the modern age to get any liftoff.
There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.
As an entrepreneur, you love your business like a child, and you’re taught to be laser-focused on the business.
The biggest challenge being an entrepreneur is knowing what you are good at and what you need to build on.
Different parts of the world have different attitudes to failure. Arguably, it may take more courage to be an entrepreneur in Sydney, or Paris, or London, or Japan, or Singapore… but an entrepreneur sees the world for what it could be, not what it is.
The IPO is no exit for the entrepreneur; it’s the start of purgatory.
Running for office, or suggesting you might, is no longer about being a politician but being an independent opinion or sensibility entrepreneur. You’re looking for an audience to identify with you. Rather than trying to convince a majority of the electorate, you’re looking to cull your particular following.
There are lots of people who say you are born an entrepreneur – you either have that gene or not. I really disagree with that.
I was an investor doing well and decided to be an entrepreneur.
It’s not easy to keep good sleep habits as an entrepreneur, especially at the early stages when there’s always a fire to put out.
I’m an entrepreneur. I’m not a politician.
I have always been driven by the ambition to solve every problem I face, whether as a scientist, engineer or entrepreneur.
A subset of CEOs is that of entrepreneurs. And the classical definition of an entrepreneur is an individual who pursues opportunity without regard to the resources currently controlled. That sounds like a very different person than one might expect an analytical investment manager to be.
No one in my family is an entrepreneur.
Being an entrepreneur means the ability to think out of the box by putting away our fear of any risk, including financial.
I would be fooling myself if I thought I would succeed as an entrepreneur. Maybe my base as a theatre artiste gave me the confidence as that’s when you start feeling you can do something on your own.
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.
There’s an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.
I’ve been an entrepreneur, a writer, a food correspondent. I might have been an architect – but I’m bad at maths.
It can be isolating to be an entrepreneur… you have to keep hustling to make it happen and that can be lonely.
Have you ever noticed some people are able to stay organized while getting a massive quantity of work accomplished, while others appear to be busy but never actually produce results? Time management is the key to becoming a successful entrepreneur.
I’m an entrepreneur. This is my life. This my career. This the way I eat.
Every entrepreneur, whether man or woman, should start with a robust business structure.
When I was a kid, I thought I would be an entrepreneur and maybe at some point go into law school.
It’s not easy for an entrepreneur to find the time to blog. But for those who do it, it is a great tool to communicate with the various stakeholders in their business and build a reputation for thought leadership.
As I’ve evolved, I’m capable of doing a lot of things at once, but really, as an entrepreneur and business person, it’s more about adding the right structure to be able to handle scaling all those things as opposed to being at the forefront of doing a lot of them.
If you can’t admit a failure, you’re not an entrepreneur. You are not a good business person. There’s nothing brilliant about what you are doing.
I was an entrepreneur myself and often say that I’m on loan to public service.
Sleeping at night is not a specialty of entrepreneurs. The entrepreneur who is sleeping soundly, something bad is happening to that person; they just don’t know it’s happening yet.
Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps.
Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as entrepreneur.
We didn’t grow up in a jock household. In fact, my dad is an entrepreneur. He was a computer programmer; he was a professor of actuarial science at Wharton for 13 years, then started his own company that was software-based.
I have learnt as an entrepreneur that the formidable opponent you can have is someone who has nothing to lose.
As an entrepreneur, one cannot just work and not say anything.
When I bought companies, it was done on trust, on a one-on-one basis, and with the intention of taking care of employees. Today, it’s about who can bid the highest. There’s no personal interest. It’s a different world and one that an entrepreneur like me doesn’t like much.
