Nolan Bushnell Quotes

The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.

I want to create an environment where I can create technology, get it into the hands of someone to market it, and move on to other technologies so I can keep innovating. I want to be a serial entrepreneur: Incubate an idea, get it to a good state, and make that an enabler to get to the next state. It's every researcher's fantasy.

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

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

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

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.

Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.

I've been good at product entrepreneuring.

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

I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I started my own software company in high school and went to college to study entrepreneurship.

Once you understand business models you can then start prototyping business models just like you prototype products.

I have this passion for building things, so I always wanted to build a startup. I always wanted to start my own company.

Other than playing the game I love, my passion is investing in innovative companies and helping the entrepreneurs behind them succeed.

There's no seminar in the world that will give you multi million-dollar advice on building a business from scratch!

'Bazillion Dollar Club' follows six struggling startups trying to get their products together.

To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.

How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea.

My mission is to grow business in Silicon Alley.

I have a business background. I have always wanted to open my own business.

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

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

The tools used by economists to analyze business firms are too abstract and speculative to offer any guidance to entrepreneurs and managers in their constant struggle to bring novel products to consumers at low cost.

And I thought I'd always like some form of business, I didn't know what kind of business I'd go in.

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 decades, technology entrepreneurship has been revered, and people like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk were heroes.