Anita Roddick Quotes

I want to be a serial entrepreneur: Incubate an idea, get it to a good state, and make that an enabler to get to the next state. It's every researcher's fantasy.

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.

If you're looking to become an entrepreneur then don't waste your time going to university or business school - just get on and do it.

Finding your entrepreneurial spirit and making it strong is more important than the idea or business you are developing.

There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.

If you asked would I have done a startup in India, the answer is yes.

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

As an entrepreneur, my problem was that I had too many ideas.

You can't study to be an entrepreneur. Sometimes, you just have to jump.

Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier.

Management and entrepreneurship are only two different dimensions of the same task. An entrepreneur who does not learn how to manage will not last long. A management that does not learn to innovate will not last long.

If you have an idea that you can't get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup.

A creative idea plus a fresh network is the best way to go from zero to millions.

The pace of change for entrepreneurs is rapidly accelerating, and the cost and risk of launching a new business and getting off the ground is just amazing. The ability to gain user feedback really quickly and adapt to what your consumers want is totally different with the web as it is now. But finding a new market, helping people and taking that original idea and turning it into a business is really exciting right now.

Building a business is not rocket science, it's about having a great idea and seeing it through with integrity.

I've always wanted to be a professional golfer. So what if you always wanted to be an entrepreneur?

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.

'Your Life Calling' is the first thing in my long career I've ever actually invented. It is my entrepreneurial debut.

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

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

BuzzFeed started as a lab with a small team where we would play with ideas.

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.

To me, entrepreneurship means something different. I think of it as identifying and valuing opportunity.

When I got out of college, I gave myself till I was 30 to invent a product. If I couldn't do it by then, I would just get a real job. And that fear - the fear of a real job - motivated me to be an entrepreneur.

So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'