Clara Shih Quotes

Being an entrepreneur is tough. Really, really tough.

Running a business anywhere isn't easy.

Entrepreneurship is really hard and painful - I'm not sure I'd recommend it for anyone who can't handle the extreme stress.

As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work.

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

To some extent, being an entrepreneur is a lonely journey.

Being an entrepreneur is more than a matter of simply starting a business.

Every phase of building a company is really hard.

If I'd really known how hard I was going to have to work behind the scenes to have any kind of business, I think I would have stopped.

Like many of my fellow entrepreneurs, I didn't create Hearsay Social with my co-founder Steve Garrity because it would be fun and easy, but because we're at our best when faced with enormous challenges.

I started my first business when I was 19. I learned a valuable lesson as a small business owner. You are the first one to work, last one to leave, and last one to be paid.

You know, being an entrepreneur is super hard work, and if you're not passionate about what you're doing, you're probably not going to succeed.

I'm very aware that to reach the same level and have the same amount of success will be extremely difficult.

Starting my business has been very hard work. I have received no help from any officials at all.

Nobody's going to give you everything on a silver tray. It's going to be difficult.

My first venture was to trade bicycle parts and hosiery yarn. The initial days proved to be difficult, and I earned very little from my business. But I kept at it. Each day, when I retired for the night, I told myself that money would come in the next day.

Starting a business isn't for everyone, and it's not what you should do if you aren't sure what else to do. It requires thick skin and the willingness to carry a great deal of stress, sometimes alone. It's more often a life of failure than a life of success, and the majority of successes came after a long road of disappointment, and often shame.

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

Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps.

Starting a company is like throwing yourself off the cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.

Based on my experience, I would say that rather than taking lessons in how to become an entrepreneur, you should jump into the pool and start swimming.

Nothing in my life was ever easy.

Starting a company and being a founder is really hard, and most companies fail. You really have to have a deep commitment and belief in it and be willing to see it through many ups and downs.

I think most people who try to start a business, they realise very quickly that one of the biggest hurdles is having to be self-determined.

Nothing in my life has really ever been easy. I've always been someone who did it uphill.