John C. Maxwell Quotes

It's far more difficult being a small-business owner starting a business than it is for me with thousands of people working for us and 400 companies. Building a business from scratch is 24 hours, 7 days a week, divorces, it's difficult to hold your family life together, it's bloody hard work and only one word really matters - and that's surviving.

If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there'd be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.

Entrepreneurship is “risky” mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.

Starting a business is a huge amount of hard work... You had better enjoy it.

It's never easy to set up any business, but it comes back to determination and drive and the love of what you do!

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

Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.

When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?

From the start, ProFounder was created to make sure anyone could be empowered to pursue their dreams through entrepreneurship.

I've been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies.

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

About 10 million people start a business each year, and about one out of two will make it. The average entrepreneur is often on his or her third startup.

My father was a small business owner. When I was growing up, he ran a one-hour photo store - back when there were one-hour photo stores.

A person who willingly goes into business for themselves - and intentionally seeks out 'solopreneurship' - is insane!

My father was a small-businessman, and if he didn't get up and go to work, there would be no business.

Even entrepreneurs with the best ideas sometimes need a little wind beneath their wings.

An entrepreneur, whether man or woman, has to be willing to take help, whether financial or technical, to grow his or her business.

My grandfather had a paint store. It's what put my mom through college. Small business is part of my family history.

As an entrepreneur and a small business owner, you are intimately familiar with goals. You've dreamed of the 'right' ones, you've projected 'real' ones for the banker and the investor, and, secretly, you've imagined how life can be if you can reach the ones you've set.

I was nominated as one of the most promising entrepreneurs by a business magazine a long time back. I worked in Telco way back in 1993 and then started my leather business.

Before I started WeWork, I owned a baby clothing company based in Dumbo, Brooklyn.

Failure will happen. It's a normal part of the startup process.

Being an entrepreneur is not for the faint of heart. It is a high-risk, high-reward proposition.

I meet a lot of people with my BBC Breakfast job who have great businesses.

My father set up his first business in the 1970s so that he could support his family.