Naveen Tewari Quotes

... encourage the free play of our people's genius for individual initiative.

I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea that you never want someone telling you what you can and cannot do.

I think that initial independence is very important; that's what being an entrepreneur is all about.

If you are going to have to play defense all the time, you cannot have the kind of ingenuity, assertiveness, independence, and intelligence which is what has made our country strong.

I know that you're better off making your own products, not just waiting for someone to hand you something.

So many opportunities are born from not asking permission.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will.

We should favor innovation and freedom over regulation.

You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a limitation.

That's one of the things I love about entrepreneurship is that if you see something that you don't like - and if you think you have a better idea - you can pursue your model.

I'm the type of person that doesn't like to wait for people to do things for me, and I never want to feel stuck. Why sit around and be like, 'I wish my label would book me some studio time,' if I can just buy my own studio equipment and figure out how to run Pro Tools and record it myself?

The heart of the entrepreneur can beat freely in anyone.

The same independence that got me into trouble in high school got me praise in college.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Every day brings new choices.

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.

There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.

We have no precedents to guide us, and that is a glorious thing, for precedents, like other guides are disposed to grow tyrannical and refuse to let us do anything on our own initiative. Life grows wearisome in the countries where precedents and conventionality is rule and nothing can happen unless it has happen before.

Actually being able to exercise your own choice can bring about greater opportunity.

Atlanta has become and has always been a place where you create your own universe.

We did what we wanted to do, made it work, and made our own rules - and the best art we could - along the way.

The cool thing about a start-up - this is sort of the entrepreneur side of me - is that you can make it grow as much as you can. Or you can squander the talent as much as you want. But it's up to you.

There's nothing better than being your own boss, especially after when you play soccer, you're just controlled by so many different forces. So owning your own company and being your own bosses, it's so liberating and freeing and you get to finally make decisions for yourself, which I think is really powerful.

I like being in charge. I like being able to control my own destiny and ideas.