Martine Syms Quotes

Entrepreneurs are natural problem-solvers, which means that we always have ideas for new businesses popping into our heads. Having a lot of options is great, but sometimes it can be hard to focus on one when you are keen to move onto the next.

The biggest problem I see with early-stage entrepreneurs is they get the idea in their head, and they leave it in their head. And they begin embellishing it in their head, making it more ornate. They add on the second story to their dream house - then add the tennis court and the turrets and the gargoyles.

Ideas are of themselves extraordinarily valuable, but an idea is just an idea. Almost anyone can think up an idea. The thing that counts is developing it into a practical product.

We've tapped into a huge demand, and it's up to us to fulfill that demand and to be creative doing it.

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing.

New industries are created by entrepreneurs who don't necessarily have subject matter expertise when they get started, yet they are still responsible for most of the innovation we see in society.

As an entrepreneur, my problem was that I had too many ideas.

There needs to be a bigger focus on creative innovation versus business models and cash flow.

My creative side is identifying all these great entrepreneurial creative people that come up with great ideas, whether they are in fashion or technology or a new tool to improve ourselves.

Basically if you study entrepreneurs, there is a misnomer: People think that entrepreneurs take risk, and they get rewarded because they take risk. In reality entrepreneurs do everything they can to minimize risk. They are not interested in taking risk. They want free lunches and they go after free lunches.

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

One of the banes of successful innovation is that companies may be so committed to innovation that they will give the innovators a lot of money to spend.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

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.

The American economy has been built and sustained by risk-taking entrepreneurs whose pioneering ideas and hard work gave birth to flourishing businesses.

Ultimately, innovation depends on the people with advanced skills who have the ideas, and on the business risk-takers willing to back them.

What is great about entrepreneurship is that entrepreneurs create the tangible from the intangible.

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.

Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources.

We need to unleash the entrepreneurial spirit that is alive in Colorado.

I deal with creativity all the time. What I have fun with is trying to transform creativity into business reality all over the world. To do this, you have to be connected to innovators and designers but also make their ideas livable and concrete.

I am really happy to see the number of entrepreneurs in India - not only because of the ideas they have but also because of the passion at which their ideas are put across.

Being an entrepreneur means being a creative businessperson.

If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.

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