Entrepreneur Quotes From Inspirational People

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.

Silvio Berlusconi - Entrepreneurs - Politicians - Freedom

Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow. Flexible and efficient markets for labor and capital, an entrepreneurial tradition, and a general willingness to tolerate and even embrace technological and economic change all contribute to this resiliency.

Ben Bernanke - Change - Economy - Entrepreneurs - Technology

I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.

Richard Branson - Entrepreneur

I'm not sure I knew what an entrepreneur was when I was ten, but I knew that starting little businesses and trying to sell greeting cards or newspapers door-to-door or just vending machine kind of thing is.. there's just something very intriguing to me about that.

Steve Case - Entrepreneur - Business - Selling

The entrepreneur is our visionary, the creator in each of us. We're born with that quality and it defines our lives as we respond to what we see, hear, feel, and experience. It is developed, nurtured, and given space to flourish or is squelched, thwarted, without air or stimulation, and dies.

Michael Gerber - Entrepreneurs - Inspirational

The entrepreneur in us sees opportunities everywhere we look, but many people see only problems everywhere they look. The entrepreneur in us is more concerned with discriminating between opportunities than he or she is with failing to see the opportunities.

Michael Gerber - Opportunity - Entrepreneurs - Problems

The entrepreneur is not really interested in doing the work; he is interested in creating the way the company operates. In that regard, the entrepreneur is an inventor. He or she loves to invent, but does not love to manufacture or sell or distribute what he or she invents.

Michael Gerber - Entrepreneurs - Work - Business

The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job.

Michael Gerber - Entrepreneurs - Jobs

I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others. Just as I think it's important to run companies well, with a close eye to the bottom line, I think you have to use your entrepreneurial experience to make corporate philanthropy effective.

Carlos Slim Helu - Responsibility - Philanthropy - Help - Entrepreneurial - Companies

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.

Henry Kravis - Entrepreneurs - Risk

Business social responsibility should not be coerced; it is a voluntary decision that the entrepreneurial leadership of every company must make on its own.

John Mackey - Business Ethics - Responsibility - Leadership - Entrepreneurial - Companies

In financing growing companies, we always looked for human value that didn’t appear on the balance sheet.. the quality of management, especially its entrepreneurial drive.

Michael Milken - Investing - Companies - Employee - Management - Entrepreneurs

Most new jobs won’t come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We’ve got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality.

Ross Perot - Jobs - Entrepreneurs

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

Anita Roddick - Entrepreneurs - Ideas

If I were born again, I would still be an industrialist. I complain because it’s very hard work with no weekends, but I would still do it.

Sakip Sabanci - Work - Entrepreneurs - Business

I think the Tata Group’s greatest contribution to the growth of the Indian economy and Indian industry probably happened in the pre-independence era. The Group’s investments in industries such as steel, textiles, power and hotels were certainly driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, but they were driven even more, I think, by a desire to make India self-sufficient and independent of its colonial masters then.

Ratan Tata - India - Growth - Tata Group - Conglomerate - Industry - Steel - Textile - Hotel - Entrepreneurial

My son is now an "entrepreneur." That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

Ted Turner - Entrepreneurs

I did something that challenged the banking world. Conventional banks look for the rich; we look for the absolutely poor. All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.

Muhammad Yunus - Banks - Change - Poverty - Challenges - Rich - Entrepreneurs - Opportunity