Mark Zuckerberg Quotes

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

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

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan.

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.

Running a business anywhere isn't easy.

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

I don't think you should ever start a business and move in a direction where you can't see it becoming a business.

At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining.

When I explained my business model to my family, they asked if I was going to open a travel agency.

It's tough for people to get into business, especially a small business.

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

If you have a fantastic idea you're really passionate about and are making $100,000 in your job, if you can set aside some of that to invest in servers or contractors or other folks, that's actually the best way to start a business in my opinion.

I watch 'Shark Tank,' of course. It's very entertaining. I think it's actually good to help people think about the business they might start, and sometimes you get encouraged by looking at someone going into business and saying, 'Hey, I could do that.'

You've got to know business before you go to show business.

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.

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.

The median startup is a business that's capitalized with about $25,000. The financing of that business comes from the entrepreneur's savings. The business is a retail or personal service business, a hair salon or a clothing store, that kind of thing.

1976, I was all of 18, and when I stepped into the world of business, the capital I had in my hand was 20,000 rupees.

I think running a business, doing what I've done for the last - since 1996, has taught me so many things because I started from just an idea and then had to figure out how to make it, market it, every single thing from soup to nuts on how to get a product done and out there.

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

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.

I enjoy building something good and having a successful product and making money.