David Cohen Quotes

My parents were entrepreneurs. I grew up believing in the power of innovation.

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.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some sort.

There are immense numbers of potential entrepreneurs who can start their own businesses among the people who are working in large organisations.

Some people are serial entrepreneurs and want to just move on to the next thing. They just want to clean the slate and start from scratch. I feel that sometimes, too, and the way that we do that here is we build things inside Shutterstock: we launch new products all the time.

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

I've been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies.

To me, entrepreneurship means something different. I think of it as identifying and valuing opportunity.

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.

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

Based on my experience, I would say that rather than taking lessons in how to become an entrepreneur, you should jump into the pool and start swimming.

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.

I've come to a real understanding of the enormity of what owner entrepreneurs do in founding great businesses. They are rare and a thing of art in many ways.

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

Being an entrepreneur doesn't make you a rich tycoon and being an innovator doesn't mean that you're successful. It just means that you're interesting.

If given a choice between investing in someone who has read REWORK or has an MBA, I’m investing in REWORK every time. A must read for every entrepreneur.

It's when you take that first step opening a business or making an investment that it becomes real.

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

I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.

We are looking for highly technical, enthusiastic and capable entrepreneurs who have a healthy disregard for the impossible, and that's not always easy to find.

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

Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That's the classic great entrepreneur.

As I've conducted my interviews with crowdsourcing entrepreneurs and experts, it's constantly hit me that your ability to do something big and bold is really a function of the size and quality of your crowd.

I really want to work for myself and build a business from nowhere.