Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Quotes

We had this unbelievable faith that no business has done, quite frankly, and we tripped along the way doing it, but within two years, we were in 40-plus countries. So we ran at an amazing pace, and this is where venture capitalists play a role. Making Groupon into what it is today, we had no role in it; the entrepreneurs did it.

Being an entrepreneur is all about risk. Being an entrepreneur is like going to Vegas every day and shoving all of your chips into the middle of the table every single day.

If you immediately take a job somewhere, you've given up on the dream of being an entrepreneur and creating jobs for people and making new technologies and making new paths.

Give me an entrepreneur with a lot of courage, gusto and who iterates rapidly, and I will back that person day in and day out.

Supporting the entrepreneurial spirit is our best chance for economic progress.

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.

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

Something new will always be the source of growth in Silicon Valley.

The American economy has been built and sustained by risk-taking entrepreneurs whose pioneering ideas and hard work gave birth to flourishing businesses.

I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.

I like to encourage people who are entrepreneurs-in-waiting.

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.

We can bring together rich natural resources, innovative research and development, smart investors, and risk-taking farming and manufacturing entrepreneurs.

I belong to the breed of first-generation entrepreneurs who have basically created our enterprises with very frugal resources.

There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance and start your business.

The entrepreneurial spirit has moved from the garage in high-tech to the kitchen in food.

I am really happy to see the number of entrepreneurs in India - not only because of the ideas they have but also because of the passion at which their ideas are put across.

There are a lot more companies with a lot younger people. It is just like 23-year-olds are starting companies, and they are scaling really quickly.

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.

I'm a kind of an entrepreneur.

At Venture for, we've worked with hundreds of aspiring young entrepreneurs who want to build businesses and change things for the better.

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

'How I Built This With Guy Raz' asks entrepreneurs to tell the story of how they made their name and, in some cases, their fortune. Whether they're in the business of selling burritos or dating apps, there's inevitably something you can learn from their stories.

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

I'm in favour of entrepreneurial, risk-taking businesses that create great products and services.