Peter Diamandis Quotes

Good entrepreneurs can manage, but no one but an entrepreneur can entrepreneur, let alone help build and lead the world's community of leading social entrepreneurs and their top business entrepreneur allies.

I have a great team who has helped me build Biocon, I was very fortunate to be able to share my vision with a group of people who really were as excited about challenges as I was.

The most important thing you can do when starting a business is surround yourself with smart people who know a lot more than you do in certain realms.

I've often thought of successful entrepreneurs as individuals who have just the right expertise - at just the right moment - to solve the emerging problems of their time.

Like many of my fellow entrepreneurs, I didn't create Hearsay Social with my co-founder Steve Garrity because it would be fun and easy, but because we're at our best when faced with enormous challenges.

Really great entrepreneurs have this very special mix of unstoppable optimism and scathing paranoia.

Entrepreneurs don't believe the future is predictable - but they do believe that they can create the future themselves.

An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.

We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.

Being an entrepreneur means the ability to think out of the box by putting away our fear of any risk, including financial.

I think, as an entrepreneur, you have to see the unlimited amount of potential but concentrate on your day and just keep building.

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.

As entrepreneurs, we must constantly dream and have the conviction and obsession to transform our dreams into reality - to create a future that never existed before.

I think if you're an entrepreneur, you've got to dream big and then dream bigger.

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

We want people who work for us to be entrepreneurs. We like them to look at ideas. We like them to chase ideas. We like them to not be what I call a caretaker of an asset.

Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.

If you are an entrepreneur, you have to think outside of the box.

In my view, the first requirement for success for an entrepreneur is to dream big. The second aspect that prevents entrepreneurs from succeeding is fear of failure.

I belong to the breed of first-generation entrepreneurs who have basically created our enterprises with very frugal resources.

You have to do stuff that you're actually incredibly passionate and excited about and you know something about. The 'oppor-tuneurs' don't do as well as the entrepreneurs.

Taking risks and being focused, sometimes, are at odds. Both are required to build a great company.

Entrepreneurs are not driven by fear; they are driven by the idea to create impact.

So many entrepreneurs view their companies as their babies. They micromanage, and they stall.

An entrepreneur need not know everything but he or she should lead a team of persons who are thorough in different aspects.