Les Wexner Quotes

I think entrepreneurship is combining a passion with the tenacity to problem-solve and the fearlessness to fail.

Being an entrepreneur means being a creative businessperson.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand.

I like to encourage people who are entrepreneurs-in-waiting.

I'm an entrepreneur. I always have been. I am curious, and I enjoy solving problems.

I've never had a business plan. Every project we've ever done was the intersection of somebody with a real need, a real passion to do something, and hustling.

Entrepreneurship is in my nature.

Well, you know, I've always been an entrepreneur. I've had it out of necessity.

Entrepreneurism is simply taking nothing, applying talent, brains, financial creativity and hustle, and turning that into something.

At a young age I always had an entrepreneurial spirit. So I'm trying to develop things on my own, too, and there are a couple things that have absolutely nothing to do with the entertainment business that I'm trying to tackle. We'll just sort of see.

I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea that you never want someone telling you what you can and cannot do.

The entrepreneurial instinct is in you. You can't learn it, you can't buy it, you can't put it in a bottle. It's just there and it comes out.

I think that initial independence is very important; that's what being an entrepreneur is all about.

I think the most important trait for an entrepreneur is persistence. When you try to do something new and difficult, you are more likely to fail than to succeed.

Entrepreneurs see the thing they want or need, then try to figure out a process of how to get it. People who shouldn't be entrepreneurs see the standard process they need to go through to get the thing they want or need then decide if they want to go through that process.

The heart of the entrepreneur can beat freely in anyone.

You need to be honest and always see new opportunities coming. So I call it intuition, innovation, execution - these are my working principles.

I always knew I wanted to run a business someday.

You have to be very fast-thinking, creative, and mobile. It is key to making a business move.

I've never really thought of myself as an entrepreneur. I think of an entrepreneur as someone who wants to make a lot of money. That has never been at the top of my list.

I learned I'm not a good executive, I'm an entrepreneur and I'm creative. I have to go with my gut and do what I want to do.

Entrepreneurs … benefit greatly from being willing to fail, willing to experiment. Good entrepreneurs tend to be stubborn on the vision but flexible on the details. They’re persistent on what they’re trying to accomplish, but they are willing to rewrite the details as needed as they learn and as things fail.

Part of me is very entrepreneurial.

Entrepreneurship requires an unvanquished spirit of curiosity, an openness to learning, a letting go of OldCo so you're free to create NewCo.