E. Joseph Cossman Quotes

An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.

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.

My goal was to have a company off the ground by the time I graduated. But the worst-case scenario was I would have an MBA and a lot of opportunities ahead of me.

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

You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Entrepreneurship is all about deferred gratification.

There are so many opportunities to make a bad decision in building a robot company on top of all the normal ways that entrepreneurs screw up that it is incredibly difficult to truly create value because it is so cost-sensitive.

Today as an entrepreneur you have more options.

I've always been an entrepreneur. I start businesses for a living.

Starting a company, your success is going to be very dependent on how you adapt. You're going to make decisions, you're going to make bets; most of them are going to turn out to be wrong.

I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.

The essence of good business is knowing when to step on a train and when to step off.

Business is a sprint until you find an opportunity, then it's the patience of a marathon runner.

I had made a decision early on that we were going to do the right things and that if they worked we were going to be very successful. And if for some reason they didn't, all the claims and the protestations and the excuses wouldn't make any difference.

Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.

If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.

As an entrepreneur, you work out solutions.

Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.

After decades of studying the men and women that make the decision to open their own Great, Growing Company, I'd have to say it comes down to the Vision they have for that business - do they expect to build the company or just have some income for the short term?

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.

Anytime is a good time to start a company.

I think entrepreneurship is combining a passion with the tenacity to problem-solve and the fearlessness to fail.