ENTREPRENEUR QUOTATION

ENTREPRENEUR  QUOTATION

 

 

1. Everything is always impossible before it works. That is what entrepreneurs are all about—doing what people have told them is impossible.

Hunt Greene, U.S. venture capitalist.

2. A man is known by the company he organizes.

Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?), U.S. writer and journalist.

3.An entrepreneur, if there is such a thing, is a born schemer and thinker up of things.

Alan Sugar  (1947 - ), British entrepreneur.

 4. Central planning didn't work for Stalin or Mao, and it won't work for an entrepreneur either.

Michael Bloomberg (1942 - ), U.S. business executive.

5.Entrepreneurs should be able to spend 80 percent of their time getting customers.

Ken Iverson (1925 - ), U.S. industrialist.

 6. Entrepreneurship will become a core skill which all our young people will need to exploit the opportunities emerging from science and technology, culture and communications.

Tony Blair (1953 - ), British prime minister.

Lecture to the Fabian Society, London

7. I believe Mrs Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.

Tony Blair (1953 - ), British prime minister.Referring to Margaret Thatcher.

 8. I guess you don't understand what buying this company seems like to an American. It's like coming over here and buying the throne.

Alfred Taubman (1925 - ), U.S. business executive and art collector.Referring to buying the British auction house Sotheby's.

9. I reckon one entrepreneur can recognise another at 300 yards on a misty day.

Sir Peter Parker (1924 - ), British business executive.

10. I think every black entrepreneur has to have a whole lot of social worker in him.

Dempsey J. Travis (1920 - ), U.S. business executive and banker.

11. Innovation, everyday entrepreneurship, and creativity are the aims of collaboration.

Peter Keen, U.S. business executive.

12. Pushing a new enterprise past all the barriers to success takes learnable skills...but it also takes a tenacious inner passion bordering on monomania. This combination is what I call leadership.

Kye Anderson,U.S. business executive.

13. Risk-taking is an integral and intrinsic part of success or living a full life.

Malcolm S. Forbes (1919 - 1990), U.S. publisher.

14. The entrepreneur is like an eagle...he soars alone, he flies alone, and he hunts alone.

Michael Smurfit (1936 - ), Irish business executive.

15. There’s a new brand of person coming up—the likely lad. You see it in the City and everywhere. It's no longer Mr. Heathcote-Smythe's son who is getting the job.

Alan Sugar (1947 - ), British entrepreneur.

 16.Unreasonable conviction based on inadequate evidence.

Tom Peters (1942 - ), U.S. management consultant and author.Defining entrepreneurship.