Quotes about entrepreneurship

You can take the smartest kid at Wharton, the one who gets straight A’s and has a 170 IQ, and if he doesn’t have the instincts, he’ll never be a successful entrepreneur.

Donald Trump

But everyone who can face up to decision making can learn to be an entrepreneur and to behave entrepreneurially. Entrepreneurship, then, is behaviour rather than personality trait. And its foundation lies in concept and theory rather than in intuition.

Peter Drucker

Capital formation is shifting from the entrepreneur who invests in the future to the pension trustee who invests in the past.

Peter Drucker

If you want to understand the entrepreneur, study the juvenile delinquent. The delinquent is saying with his actions, ‘This sucks, I’m going to do my own thing.’

Yvon Chouinard

Entrepreneurship is ‘risky’ mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.

Peter Drucker

People ask me all the time, ‘How can I become a successful entrepreneur?’ And I have to be honest: It’s one of my least favorite questions, because if you’re waiting for someone else’s advice to become an entrepreneur, chances are you’re not one.

Michael Dell

A savvy entrepreneur will not always look for investment money first.

Daymond John

An entrepreneur needs to know what they need, period. Then they need to find an investor who can build off whatever their weaknesses are – whether that’s through money, strategic partnerships or knowledge.

Daymond John

If you want to be a real entrepreneur you have to be the cause, you have to be the creator of someone else’s new realty. Which eliminates time, space, motion, and friction.

Ashton Kutcher

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.

Daymond John