Tiesto Quotes

Most of my friends who got shows right away are still just doing shows, and they have no need to create.

I think if you're an entrepreneur, you've got to dream big and then dream bigger.

Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.

In the media business and as a creative executive, if you don't take risks, you're dead in the water. Calculated risk-taking is essential for success.

I've always been an idea person, so I've always been great at having ideas, just not having the resources to make them happen.

We've tapped into a huge demand, and it's up to us to fulfill that demand and to be creative doing it.

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Surprising people is the key to career longevity for someone like me.

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.

Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status - there's joy in that.

Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer.

What does an entrepreneur do? The first thing is they've given themselves permission to see a problem. Most people don't want to see problems... Once you see a problem and you keep looking at it, you'll find an answer.

If you are an entrepreneur, you have to think outside of the box.

If you can last long enough, in success, you have to get really creative and come up with new stuff.

Remember, I'm someone who got fired from Disney and eight days later started the first studio in 65 years with two of the most brilliant, successful people in the history of the entertainment business, doing something everyone said was somewhere between improbable and impossible. I'm afraid that's exactly what I love doing.

Someone once described entrepreneurship to me as a series of happy accidents.

When you have a good idea, the money flows.

You have to do stuff that you're actually incredibly passionate and excited about and you know something about. The 'oppor-tuneurs' don't do as well as the entrepreneurs.

We need people who dream impossible things, who maybe fail, sometimes succeed, but in any case who have that ambition.

As an entrepreneur and a small business owner, you are intimately familiar with goals. You've dreamed of the 'right' ones, you've projected 'real' ones for the banker and the investor, and, secretly, you've imagined how life can be if you can reach the ones you've set.

We had a much bigger vision than creating a dating site.

I've often thought of successful entrepreneurs as individuals who have just the right expertise - at just the right moment - to solve the emerging problems of their time.

It's difficult to innovate, but you must try to create a project under your ideas and philosophies to take you ahead of other clubs.

I want to become an entertainment, tech, and business mogul just in general.

If I could be generous and move forward and spread my feelers business-wise and also creatively, that's the best position to put myself in.