Dave Barry Quotes

I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.

Once a changemaker, always a changemaker but only a few swim against the tide.

Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.

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

Give me an entrepreneur with a lot of courage, gusto and who iterates rapidly, and I will back that person day in and day out.

This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.

I'm an engineer turned entrepreneur who's passionate about connection.

Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldn't do it, but it was probably the best thing I've ever done.

I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.

A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk.

I'm proud of my status as a pioneer in this business.

Optimistic people play a disproportionate role in shaping our lives. Their decisions make a difference; they are inventors, entrepreneurs, political and military leaders - not average people. They got to where they are by seeking challenges and taking risks.

In the founders, I look for a person I feel is trustworthy, driven and smart. I invest in the person first, because in the event the business fails, the person and I can move forward and create another business.

When we started Skype, if you look at analyst reports, no one forecasted it as a big business. Also when Google started, it was not fashionable to be in search. It's not trying to do the obvious - that's the hard part.

Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

Leadership is all about taking people on a journey. The challenge is that most of the time, we are asking people to follow us to places we ourselves have never been.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

Human progress has always been driven by a sense of adventure and unconventional thinking.

I like people who don't accept boundaries. Like Florence Nightingale. And Napoleon or Louis XIV, though I'm not sure how much I'd have liked to meet them. I admire people who aren't circumscribed by circumstance.

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been, as a rule, bold, aggressive, and self-confident. They dared to step out from the crowd and act in an original way. They were not afraid to be generals.