Madam C. J. Walker Quotes

Opening a business is going to be hard work, no matter what choices you make. If you decide to fall on your sword and just slog through all the work as an operator instead of an owner, then you take responsibility for the entire operation and the actions of the business.

I believe that starting any business should be as easy as a 10-year-old starting a lemonade stand.

Successful entrepreneurship takes complete dedication and careful strategizing along with market analysis. Plus, successful startups provide countless benefits to a healthy economy and consumers in need.

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.

People don't know how hard it is to have your own business.

Starting my business has been very hard work. I have received no help from any officials at all.

My first business deal was with my mother. I invested in chickens. I sold the eggs to my mother.

I think that sometimes people are frightened to take the risk of entrepreneurship.

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.

You cannot get into business for the fashion of it.

The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.

I almost never invest in ideas or plans, so you'll need to have a company and at least a product, if not customers.

I think that anyone who wants to start their own business can, but not any type of business.

An entrepreneur needs to know what they need, period. Then they need to find an investor who can build off whatever their weaknesses are - whether that's through money, strategic partnerships or knowledge.

Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps.

Starting a business is not for everyone. Starting a business - I'd say, number one is have a high pain threshold.

We all get into business, and we take a risk in terms of putting capital.

In getting Under Armour started, like any business, I think, number one, you need a great idea.

There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance and start your business.

Whenever you start a new business, the sheer number of variables at hand makes failure a constant possibility.

A lot of people want to start a business, and they're like, 'I wanna start a business, give me some money to invest.' Where is your business plan? Are you investing money yourself into your own business? How is this going to work? People think that they can just come to you with an idea and have money.

I had a shaved head for six years.

Entrepreneurs love to view risk as binary. The more you put on the line, the greater the potential for reward.

Entrepreneurs always begin the journey believing that they have the next big idea. They dream of the fame and fortune that awaits them if only they had the funding to pursue it. But the reality is that as the product is built and shared with customers, flaws in their concept are discovered that - if not overcome - will kill the business.