Vivek Ramaswamy Quotes

I do think a lot of people are trying to do important things still, and I think it is really a great thing that entrepreneurship is getting easier. When I started, it was just much harder to begin a company.

Being an entrepreneur is more than a matter of simply starting a business.

Our goal is simply to make entrepreneurship more accessible to everyone around the world throughout the entrepreneurial journey, from inspiration to IPO.

There are a lot of people building small ideas now. There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.

I'm not really sure where it comes from, but every time I meet someone who says 'I really want to be an entrepreneur' but has no idea what they want to do, I really just think: 'This person is totally aimless.'

Inventors often don't know how to pitch their ideas. So many people in Silicon Valley want to hear you say 'disruptive,' and tote a 'platform.' They repeat buzzwords over and over, and I think it intimidates a real inventor.

Starting a company is like throwing yourself off the cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.

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.

I told myself the next time I had a good idea, I would bring it to market.

On Day One, a start-up is a faith-based initiative built on guesses.

The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.

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.

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

There are so many startups out there raising money. I don't think this is a bad thing. It's a good thing. Entrepreneurship is in vogue. Innovators are innovating. Makers are making.

When my co-founder and I first had the idea for IronPort, an email security company, we triangulated a list of the 20 most relevant people in email - former CEOs, open source technologists, investors and thought leaders.

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

The biggest problem is startups in search of a problem. Chase what you're passionate about; you'll probably already have knowledge in the space.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don'ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

Entrepreneurship is the key to emerging technologies.

One of the myths you see in entrepreneurship is that people have this dream one night, wake up the next morning, and start building it. It's actually much more of an iterative process.

Even though Traf-O-Data wasn't a roaring success, it was seminal in preparing us to make Microsoft's first product a couple of years later.

At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.

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 wasn't a good school pupil. I was interested in business.