Michael LeBoeuf Quotes

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.

That 95 per cent. fail of those who start in business upon their own account seems incredible, and yet such are said to be the statistics upon the subject.

I think you have to be when you own your own business. I'm looking at the new No Limit as being a legacy. It's incredible that we've been able to build this up and survive over ten years and we are doing the right thing by maintaining.

My father gave me a very small loan in 1975, and I built it into a company that's worth many, many billions of dollars, with some of the greatest assets in the world, and I say that only because that's the kind of thinking that America needs.

Our region's economy was built upon their entrepreneurial spirit, and our economy still depends on the continued success of the enterprises they have worked so hard to create.

I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold. No matter what I do - outside of sticking my tongue out - I tend to make money, and quite a bit in non-KISS stuff.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

Maybe it's whiner's fatigue, but I'm getting tired of hearing about how hard it is to start a company and be a CEO. It's not that hard.

Thinking big is only one part of being a successful entrepreneur.

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.

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

After decades of studying the men and women that make the decision to open their own Great, Growing Company, I'd have to say it comes down to the Vision they have for that business - do they expect to build the company or just have some income for the short term?

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

It's very difficult for an entrepreneur to let go. It's very hard to sell a successful business. People sometimes hold on until the business has no value at all.

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

The number of people who have successfully scaled a company from dream to post-IPO success - you could list them on the fingers of two hands.

There are millions of business ideas out there but only a tiny percentage of businesses succeed.

Growth and momentum are what a startup lives on and you always have to focus on maintaining these.

If you look at the careers of great entrepreneurs and you look at the moment they took their plunge, the plunge is rarely a great financial or material risk, it’s a social risk. At the moment they started their new businesses, everyone around them said ‘you’re an idiot’.

The very first company I started failed with a great bang. The second one failed a little bit less, but still failed. The third one, you know, proper failed, but it was kind of okay. I recovered quickly. Number four almost didn't fail. It still didn't really feel great, but it did okay. Number five was PayPal.

The ability to sell is the number one skill in business. If you cannot sell, don't bother thinking about becoming a business owner.

Founders should think of their company as a product and build it and shape it with the same passion and care.

I see myself as a classic middle market entrepreneur, and this is the role I fulfil.

I started doing the star turn and making a profit off it. Now I'm kind of one of them.

I think going public should not be a goal and the more that we make it a goal, the less it will be a goal. It's kind of like, I have three young children and when I tell them to eat vegetables, the last thing they will ever do is eat vegetables. I think it's just this weird thing where entrepreneurs have a reflexive negative reaction when people are pushing for it. I think you have to view going public for what it is, which is a transitional moment where you can consolidate mindshare and win at an even larger scale.