Steve Jobs 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.

My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.

It's almost a cliche that great Silicon Valley entrepreneurs don't go sit on a beach when they make a lot of money; they get back to work building another company or at least investing in other people's companies.

This is my advice to entrepreneurs. It's easy to give up, but believe in your ideas. Surround yourself with people you respect and are smarter than you.

I'm an entrepreneur.

An entrepreneur is born with the mentality to take risks, though there are several important characteristics: courage, faith in yourself, and above all, even when you fail, to learn from failure and get up and try again.

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

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.

True entrepreneurshi p comes only from risk-taking.

I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.

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

I'm an engineer turned entrepreneur who's passionate about connection.

My training of cold-calling and everyone under the sun telling me no, and my keeping going, was a huge part of the first two years of Spanx.

I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of business classes. I was really fascinated by economics. You end up having to be a marketeer, finance maven and a little bit of a technologist in order to get a business going.

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

While I wouldn't say that most entrepreneurs find it easy to get funding, there are certainly more people out there funding technology and healthcare companies than in other areas.

The venture industry is both quite vibrant and quite competitive.

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

I'm just more excited about helping new entrepreneurs create the next Facebook or Google.

It's shocking we don't see more engineers and entrepreneurs interested in enterprise.

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

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.

Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.

You've got to love this business. You have to be able to take rejection.

I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business.