(39 quotes found)
“Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.”
Natalie Clifford Barney
“When you’re trying to raise an investment for your venture, every ‘no’ gets you closer to a ‘yes’ only if you know why you’ve been rejected.”
Maya Elhalal
“The only people you should worry about, getting your idea, are the ones you’re trying to sell it to.”
“You say: "I have lots of great ideas, but I have trouble figuring out which one to try. Let me tell you about a couple." Investor thinks: "I want to know which idea you're going to kill yourself trying to make successful, not which ideas have crossed your idle mind."”
Contributed by: Maya Elhalal
Guy Kawasaki
“True, long term interest in a subject, is the best form of market research.”
“Fierce competition is usually better news than no competition. At least you know there’s something worth fighting over.”
“The most successful ventures are the ones where founders scratch their own itch.”
“Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.”
Hasidic Proverb
“How dare you squander even one more day not taking advantage of the greatest shifts of our generation? How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?”
Seth Godin
“You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'”
George Bernard Shaw