Jessica Alba Quotes

Elon Musk is an incredible leader and entrepreneur. I have known him since 1995 when he first came to Silicon Valley.

Without internet, there would have been no Jack Ma, and no Alibaba or Taobao.

I actually think we need to put our energies, as entrepreneurs, as technology inventors, as government, to being much more inclusive. I think the key thing is actually working together.

It is hard to think that a $2 billion company with 4,300-plus people couldn't compete with six people in blue jeans.

Startups are the engines of exponential growth, manifesting the power of innovation. Several big companies today are startups of yesterday. They were born with a spirit of enterprise and adventure kept alive due to hardwork and perseverance and today have become shining beacons of innovation.

Entrepreneurs do more than anyone thinks possible, with less than anyone thinks possible.

To be a real entrepreneur you always have to be looking forward. The moment you rest on your laurels is the moment your competition overtakes you.

Bill Gates really seems to be much more of a business man than a technologist, while I prefer to think of Linux in technical terms rather than as a means to money.

The idea of an entrepreneur is really thinking out of the box and taking risks and stepping up to major challenges.

Because 98 percent of our ideas are not great ideas, or everyone would be a billionaire. So yeah. That's something people have had a lot of experience in: being told our idea is bad or our performance is bad. I think that's the one common thread between all working actors is that they have a pretty thick skin - or you'd like to hope. You're used to rejection, that's for sure.

Everybody wants to make something they think is a surefire winner, though nobody knows what a surefire winner is, in my opinion.

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

One of the big problems entrepreneurs run into is they get too comfortable.

I think the hallmark of a really good entrepreneur is that you're not really going to build one specific company. The goal - at least the way I think about entrepreneurship - is you realize one day that you can't really work for anyone else. You have to start your own thing. It almost doesn't matter what that thing is.

For entrepreneurs, ignorance is not bliss. It's fatal. It's costly. And it's for losers. You either get organized, or get crushed.

Israel is a start-up nation, and I think it can be done in other places. I will do it outside the government. I don't need the government.

Technology and capitalism are very much linked. I think that capitalism probably works best in a technologically progressing society.

Steve was among the greatest of American innovators - brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it...The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve's success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.

As an entrepreneur, you can always find a solution if you try hard enough.

By going from the bottom-up again, we see where successes work, and you can also see where the status quo can be the biggest obstacle or roadblock to success. The kind of entrepreneurs in whom we need to invest are the kind who are willing to fight that status quo, bureaucracy, complacency, and corruption.

Designers + artists see potential in things where others do not. I think artists in many ways are the original entrepreneurs.

Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.

Entrepreneurs must love what they do to such a degree that doing it is worth sacrifice and, at times, pain. But doing anything else, we think, would be unimaginable.

I think my constant fiddling and meddling with the status quo may have been one of my biggest contributions to the later success of Wal-Mart.

I think a lot of becoming an entrepreneur is something which people have to learn just from getting out there and giving it a go, and having to learn the art of survival.