Marc Benioff Quotes

If you're positioned to start your own organization, that's great - but rare.

I'm an entrepreneur.

The point of an accelerator is to teach you about companies and business, not about technology.

From the time I was a kid, I was always interested in any and all kinds of new business ideas.

I have always been fascinated by entrepreneurship.

We all have an entrepreneur in us; it's just whether we choose the tradeoffs to become one.

If you immediately take a job somewhere, you've given up on the dream of being an entrepreneur and creating jobs for people and making new technologies and making new paths.

I always knew I wanted to start my own line. Nights and weekends, I would work on my business plan.

All throughout my life I have been deeply immersed in startups, either because I was running one or investing in them or helping them.

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.

I'm just more excited about helping new entrepreneurs create the next Facebook or Google.

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

I always had this desire to be an entrepreneur, except I felt I didn't really know what I was doing.

So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'

For me, I've always been an entrepreneur.

I'm a kind of an entrepreneur.

All of us have an entrepreneur in us.

I had always wanted to start a company, ever since I was very young.

I'll be a mentor to those who want to create a business, product or service and aren't exactly sure how to do that. To me, it's a true sign of success if I can help someone have a better time of it.

If you're looking to become an entrepreneur then don't waste your time going to university or business school - just get on and do it.

True entrepreneurshi p comes only from risk-taking.

I'm an engineer turned entrepreneur who's passionate about connection.

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

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

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