Mohammad bin Salman Quotes

The next Bill Gates will not start an operating system. The next Larry Page won't start a search engine. The next Mark Zuckerberg won't start a social network company. If you are copying these people, you are not learning from them.

I think entrepreneurs are born and not created, and so I think you see a lot of similarities among entrepreneurs in different parts of the world. Their backdrop may be very different, but their drive to create a business and to create jobs remains very much the same, whether it's in Silicon Valley or Kandahar or Kabul.

Some of the projects we've proposed over the years have been refused. But we never do other people's ideas; our ideas come out of our two hearts and our two heads.

The people who succeed are those who are aware of the rules; they respect the rules. But they make up their own rules. They create for creative sake.

I don't chase what everyone else is looking for. Being creative is all about you.

My parents were entrepreneurs. I grew up believing in the power of innovation.

Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That's the classic great entrepreneur.

Entrepreneurs see the thing they want or need, then try to figure out a process of how to get it. People who shouldn't be entrepreneurs see the standard process they need to go through to get the thing they want or need then decide if they want to go through that process.

Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they'll turn out to be right.

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

Thinking big is only one part of being a successful entrepreneur.

I love when people have their own creative vision, when a person stands out and tries different things.

We want people who work for us to be entrepreneurs. We like them to look at ideas. We like them to chase ideas. We like them to not be what I call a caretaker of an asset.

I learned I'm not a good executive, I'm an entrepreneur and I'm creative. I have to go with my gut and do what I want to do.

I stood up for what I believed in starting businesses.

I've worked with people who wanted to be creative every day: it was like a goal to arrive with something very special. Sometimes it's just disturbing, because special is good when it's needed. But when it's not needed, it's confusing, and you go away from the authenticity by a strong desire to be unique and singular.

Other people might buy a Rolls-Royce. I'd rather encourage people to be creative.

It takes courage to be an entrepreneur.

I know someone might look at a creative person's job and think it's pretty fun. It is. It's the best thing in the world, but it's also extremely challenging to carve out your own completely unique path and not following a default path that someone else has already paved.

Inexperienced entrepreneurs often want to keep their plans secret, but this is never how I've seen any of the great companies get built.

Creative drives our business; the business doesn't drive the creative.

I wanna take what I'm doing and create something around it as opposed to trying to fit into someone else's world.

Entrepreneurship is in my nature.

I've always been creating, no one had to teach me how to create, I always made things.

I feel that one thing that a businessman can learn is do not follow a path that has already been successful. You will never be a path-breaker then.