Shervin Pishevar Quotes

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'm an entrepreneur.

I was lucky - I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

We are calling ourselves a startup nation, but the number of people who set out on their own is very low; even 10,000 a year would be low in a country like India. We can say we are a startup nation but the world won't say it.

If you're positioned to start your own organization, that's great - but rare.

Not only CAN anyone be an entrepreneur, but they MUST be.

Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier.

If you're looking to become an entrepreneur then don't waste your time going to university or business school - just get on and do it.

Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.

There is no greater country on Earth for entrepreneurship than America. In every category, from the high-tech world of Silicon Valley, where I live, to University R&D labs, to countless Main Street small business owners, Americans are taking risks, embracing new ideas and - most importantly - creating jobs.

I have always thought of myself as an inventor first and foremost. An engineer. An entrepreneur. In that order. I never thought of myself as an employee. But my first jobs as an adult were as an employee: at IBM, and then at my first start-up.

I believe for the first time in history, entrepreneurship is now a viable career.

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

In the States, entrepreneurs inspire a lot of people and are respected for creating jobs. That makes people dream and feel happy for their country.

In America, small business is a big deal.

For me, I've always been an entrepreneur.

I think I probably had to start a company, because I don't think I can work for other people.

All of us have an entrepreneur in us.

Graduating business school, I had $150,000 of debt. An investment firm offered me a steady job, but it didn't feel right. It was 2007 in Silicon Valley, and I dreamed of starting an Internet company.

Once you're an entrepreneur you're always an entrepreneur, and you need that fix.

Well, you know, I've always been an entrepreneur. I've had it out of necessity.

I had always wanted to start a company, ever since I was very young.

We all have an entrepreneur in us; it's just whether we choose the tradeoffs to become one.

If you want swashbuckling action in your life, become an entrepreneur and give it a go.

Young people should think in a different way - they should be job givers not job seeker.