Robert Metcalfe Quotes

Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.

I've always been an entrepreneur, but it's never been about the money. I like a challenge, the harder the better.

I'm a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand.

My dad was an entrepreneurial businessman, and maybe I got some of his ability.

What created Silicon Valley was a culture of openness, and there is no future to Silicon Valley without it.

People ask, 'Are entrepreneurs born, or are they made?' I think it's a combination of both.

The best founders are extremely thoughtful and have an eye for quality. I don't know if there's any generic advice here that would be helpful. Startup knowledge is a moving target.

Some people revel in getting their hands dirty. These are the people that make startups grow wildly. People with hustle also tend to be much more agile - they're the water that goes around the rock. These are the people you want around when everything goes wrong. They're also the people you want beside you when everything goes right.

One of the great things about moving to Silicon Valley is that you're surrounded by all these people who've done it before. This place is an assembly line that takes a couple of twenty-somethings and walks you through everything you need to learn.

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.

As an entrepreneur, one cannot just work and not say anything.

I've never really thought of myself as an entrepreneur. I think of an entrepreneur as someone who wants to make a lot of money. That has never been at the top of my list.

As an entrepreneur, you work out solutions.

When I took the entrepreneurship class at Stanford, the first lecture was about an entrepreneur and his personality. They described it as being different than a businessman, who is an overall scientific manager.

I'd like to see the word 'entrepreneur' knocked off its pedestal. Being 'entrepreneurial' is something I look for not only in founders to invest in, but also employees to hire.

Elon Musk is an incredibly prolific entrepreneur, having come up with, or been at the founding team of Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity, PayPal, all different industries that seem to have nothing to do with each other.

Being an entrepreneur means being a creative businessperson.

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.

I think entrepreneurs really appreciate directness and honesty, coupled with empathy.

Entrepreneurism is simply taking nothing, applying talent, brains, financial creativity and hustle, and turning that into something.

There needs to be a bigger focus on creative innovation versus business models and cash flow.

The minute I went into business, I was a success, and I've done well ever since.

I'm really not a great businessperson. I understand business, and I understand numbers, but I think what I understand more than that is people... Ultimately, I think businesses fail and people fail because they don't have their act together.

I think about people like Jeff Bezos or Reed Hastings, and I really marvel at the stamina they've had to keep on trucking no matter what happens.