So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I’d like to fly on.
Richard BransonWe go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.
Robert KiyosakiI identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid.
Nipsey HussleI started the site when I was 19. I didn’t know much about business back then.
Mark ZuckerbergThe thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.
Robert KiyosakiThe vision is to figure out how there can really be dynamic entrepreneurialism in space.
Jeff BezosStarting your own business isn’t just a job – it’s a way of life.
Richard BransonMy early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds.
Richard BransonI’m a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I’m doing. I don’t want to work for other people forever.
Kevin HartMr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.
Andrew CarnegieThe odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.
Elon MuskWhen I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.
Richard BransonFounding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.
Mark ZuckerbergI love big business!
Clint EastwoodWe get paid for bringing value to the market place.
Jim RohnI 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 ZuckerbergWhat changed our lives forever was when Malcolm had the idea to sell rock ‚n roll records to trendy customers.
Vivienne WestwoodAs 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 BransonWhen Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.
Bill GatesIf you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
B. C. ForbesSilicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.
Elon MuskTourism 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 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 JobsWith 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 BransonWe, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.
Richard BransonThe richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.
Robert KiyosakiIt’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 DisneyAs I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.
Wayne DyerIf you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
Elon MuskIt’s rare for a startup to make money immediately, so you need to make sure that you have enough saved or that you have another income stream that can support you.
Richard BransonI do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.
Henry FordIf you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.
Richard BransonI began playing Monopoly for real when I was 26 years old. Today, my wife and I have approximately 1,400 little green houses – each paying us monthly. You do not have to be a rocket scientist or have a Harvard degree to play Monopoly for real.
Robert KiyosakiI remember flying in, driving down 101 in a cab, and passing by all these tech companies like Yahoo! I remember thinking, ‚Maybe someday we’ll build a company. This probably isn’t it, but one day we will.‘
Mark ZuckerbergStart a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.
Robert KiyosakiThe greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!
Robert KiyosakiWe want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that’s something we’re proud of.
Mark ZuckerbergI built a label at the same time I built a career.
Nipsey HussleRight now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.
Woody AllenAmerica’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 BidenI always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.
Elon MuskFor 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 HartThe first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.
LeBron JamesOvercoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.
Richard BransonI always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.
Dolly PartonTo keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin‘.
DJ KhaledAt Virgin, we have always backed the power of the entrepreneur and inventor to find solutions to tricky problems. Why should climate change and the battle against carbon be any different?
Richard BransonIn business for yourself, not by yourself.
William JamesI don’t need to publish to make a living.
J. K. RowlingMy task over the last two years hasn’t just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.
Barack ObamaI was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn’t want to get that involved in the business aspect of it.
Dolly PartonI think that every artist – or anybody that’s in business – could benefit from a direct-to-consumer strategy, so I think that that applies to us as artists and content creators, too.
Nipsey HussleI’m an entrepreneur. I’m a young mogul. I’m blessed.
DJ KhaledBut, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I’ve been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.
Vivienne WestwoodYoung people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
Francis BaconThe rich don’t work for money – the rich invent money.
Robert KiyosakiThe woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.
Amelia EarhartSome 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 ChurchillI don’t think it’s a good idea to plan to sell a company.
Elon MuskI’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.
Robert Kiyosaki