Nancy Dubuc Quotes

Being an entrepreneur means being a creative businessperson.

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

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

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

I'm not one for conventional wisdom. I founded my label in 1998, but after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, my Japanese backers pulled out, and I couldn't afford to produce the line myself. I needed fresh ideas from someone who understood technology, since that was the direction the business was going.

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

Being an entrepreneur means the ability to think out of the box by putting away our fear of any risk, including financial.

The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing.

As an entrepreneur, you work out solutions.

Entrepreneurs are natural problem-solvers, which means that we always have ideas for new businesses popping into our heads. Having a lot of options is great, but sometimes it can be hard to focus on one when you are keen to move onto the next.

Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision, and resources.

Innovation happens everywhere.

Entrepreneurs, by their nature, see not only problems but solutions and opportunities.

An entrepreneur is not a person who starts a company, but he is the person who actually solves a problem.

Entrepreneurs create value; I wanted to create ideas that became machines for making value.

We never had a giant library or owned a lot of commercial characters the way most studios did. And since we didn't have a lot of internal resources, we had to find ways to be inventive and resourceful, which I think is a healthy way to run a good business.

In addition to encouraging failure, I would also encourage companies to broadly create a culture of innovation. That should mean more than just technology and invention; it should mean something millennials know well: Ingenuity.

Business is about more than just money. It's about being creative and innovative.

Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.

The best entrepreneurs know when to ignore sage advice.

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.

America demands invention and innovation to succeed.

I'm a visionary. I'm not a maintenance person.