My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don’t care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that – building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.
Mark ZuckerbergMy friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There’s a lot of that in Silicon Valley.
Mark ZuckerbergAs an entrepreneur, I have been known for taking risks throughout my career, but leaving the European Union is not one of the risks I would want the U.K. to take – not as an investor, not as a father, and not as a grandfather. I am deeply concerned about the impact of leaving.
Richard BransonI don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.
Elon MuskAre we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?
Barack ObamaI love big business!
Clint EastwoodI don’t need to publish to make a living.
J. K. RowlingWell, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.
Richard BransonIt’s safe to say headphones is a good business.
DJ KhaledI think you can give a pure artistic product if you understand how to build your own industry.
Nipsey HussleBuilding a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.
Mark ZuckerbergI identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid.
Nipsey HussleI would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.
Kanye WestBe willing to use yourself to get out there and put the company on the market. If you have to make a fool of yourself, make a fool of yourself, but make sure that you end up on the front pages, not the back pages. In time, it’s possible that your company will stand out from the crowd, and you’ll be successful.
Richard BransonIn business for yourself, not by yourself.
William JamesI don’t invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.
Robert KiyosakiWith Virgin, I’ve just loved creating things. And as a private company, I can get away with moving Virgin from records to airlines to train companies to space companies to whatever, without ever having to worry about analysts knocking the value of my stock.
Richard BransonWhen times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.
Robert KiyosakiI never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It’s done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.
Richard BransonIn business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.
Robert KiyosakiI always wanted to have a headphone line but I feel like I’m going to do more than just headphones eventually, but we want to wake the world up right now with this.
DJ KhaledBy reading, you learn through others‘ experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.
Jim MattisThere’s no better place in the world for technology start-ups than Silicon Valley; there’s such an incredible well of talent and capital and resources. The whole system is set up to foster the creation of new companies.
Elon MuskBusiness opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.
Richard BransonStart a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.
Robert KiyosakiIf you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.
Barack ObamaI wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.
Robert KiyosakiFor me, it’s about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That’s what’s big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.
Kevin HartBut, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.
Vivienne WestwoodIf you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.
Karl LagerfeldA true capitalist doesn’t have a job, because other people and other people’s money work for them.
Robert KiyosakiWhat changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock ‚n roll records to trendy customers.
Vivienne WestwoodThe richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.
Robert KiyosakiI was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.
Steve JobsI feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world… If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers.
Mark ZuckerbergGood entrepreneurs are community builders, actively involved with their communities and dedicated to the community’s well being. If you’re dedicated to your community, it will be dedicated to you.
Robert KiyosakiI’m an entrepreneur. I’m a young mogul. I’m blessed.
DJ KhaledPolitics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.
David HareThe vision is to figure out how there can really be dynamic entrepreneurialism in space.
Jeff BezosIt’s no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.
Walt DisneyEvery successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures – they’re lying if they say they haven’t. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind – the product wasn’t distinct enough from Coca-Cola.
Richard BransonThe rich don’t work for money – the rich invent money.
Robert KiyosakiIf my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.
Robert KiyosakiTourism provides employment to the poorest of the poor. Gram seller earns something, auto-rickshaw driver earns something, pakoda seller earns something, and tea seller also earns something.
Narendra ModiI just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.
Conor McGregorThe woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
Amelia EarhartI don’t think it’s a good idea to plan to sell a company.
Elon MuskI believe that we should own the fruits of our labor and the assets of our creations.
Nipsey HussleI literally coded Facebook in my dorm room and launched it from my dorm room. I rented a server for $85 a month, and I funded it by putting an ad on the side, and we’ve funded ever since by putting ads on the side.
Mark ZuckerbergWhile still working for others, your goal at some point must be to carve out little areas that you can operate on your own, cultivating entrepreneurial skills.
Robert GreeneI started the site when I was 19. I didn’t know much about business back then.
Mark ZuckerbergFor a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.
Richard BransonI think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.
Richard BransonAmerica’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.
Joe BidenThe first mistake in public business is the going into it.
Benjamin FranklinDisneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
Walt DisneyI’m really interested in smells. I think I’d like to own a perfumery someday.
Kurt CobainI built a company at the same time I built a career.
Nipsey HussleSome people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
Winston ChurchillIf there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.
Stephen Covey