Henry Blodget Quotes

If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker's bet. Sure, some entrepreneurs make a lot of money, but if you calculate the amount of stress-inducing work and time it takes and multiply that by the low likelihood of success and eventual payoff, it is not a great way to get rich.

I always wanted to start a public company and make a lot of money.

It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.

Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected to run it. Control is mandatory.

You can make money, you can lose money in Africa. But opportunities, boy oh boy, they exist.

I'm a capitalist. I believe that people take risk, and there are rewards if they do well; they should lose if they don't.

I wanted to create a multibillion dollar company that lets me go out and let us go out and change the world and create a Skin Cancer Awareness Center that costs a quarter a billion dollars.

Once our construction business began to win more contracts, our business success allowed us to reap the benefits of all the risks we took to start our company and we were able to resolve and settle outstanding fees.

Bitcoin is absolutely the Wild West of finance, and thank goodness. It represents a whole legion of adventurers and entrepreneurs, of risk takers, inventors, and problem solvers. It is the frontier. Huge amounts of wealth will be created and destroyed as this new landscape is mapped out.

Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.

Those who start in business with too little money are more likely to succeed than those who start with too much. Energy and imagination are the springboards to wealth creation.

You do not have to be the son of a rich man to be an entrepreneur. Today kids are far more willing to take risks because they've seen high rewards.

I have made billions of dollars in business making deals. Now I'm going to make America rich again.

The capitalist system has lifted mankind out of mass poverty. It is this system that in the last century, in the last generation, even in the last decade, has acceleratively been changing the face of the world, and has provided the masses of mankind with amenities that even kings did not possess or imagine a few generations ago.

There is only one way to make a great deal of money; and that is in a business of your own.

You have to make the shift from being a consumer in the economy to becoming an owner-and you do it by becoming an investor.

First of all, I appropriate photographs.In presenting the Richard Prince photograph I tried to be as neutral as I could be. I put down the fact of it. I wanted it to be the same thing he wanted it to be, an open ended invitation to think about authorship, and who owns a created work. So I pair it with my appropriated picture.

I have no complex about wealth. I have worked very hard for my money; producing things people need.

Entrepreneurial knowledge has little to do with certified expertise, advanced degrees, or the learning of establishment schools. The fashionably educated and cultivated spurn the kind of fanatically focused learning commanded by the innovators. Wealth all too often comes from doing what other people consider insufferably boring or unendurably hard.

Being able to touch so many people through my businesses and make money while doing it, is a huge blessing.

In the information age, the richest people are entrepreneurs. We may not become a king or queen, but we can all be entrepreneurs.

Don't get the idea that I've turned green. My business is making money, and I think this is going to make a lot of money.

Ideas will be the major source of new wealth.

There is nothing more mine than my writing, nothing I'm more proprietary about.

Are you willing to work sixteen hours a day? Rich people are. Are you willing to work seven days a week and five up most of your weekends? Rich people are. Are you willing to sacrifice seeing your family, your friends, and give up your recreations and hobbies? Rich people are. Are you willing to risk all your time, energy and start-up capital with no guarantee of returns? Rich people are.