Aaron Patzer Quotes

Solve a real problem. You don't start a company because you want to be an entrepreneur or the fame and glory that comes along with it. You become an entrepreneur to solve a real problem.

In the bar and restaurant industry, you're always one idea away from your next quarter-million.

A business is simply an idea to make other people's lives better.

Never go into business purely to make money. If that's the motive you're better off doing nothing.

Real entrepreneurs have what I call the three Ps (and, trust me, none of them stands for 'permission'). Real entrepreneurs have a 'passion' for what they're doing, a 'problem' that needs to be solved, and a 'purpose' that drives them forward.

Entrepreneurs see the thing they want or need, then try to figure out a process of how to get it. People who shouldn't be entrepreneurs see the standard process they need to go through to get the thing they want or need then decide if they want to go through that process.

Part of the challenge of being an entrepreneur, if you're going for a really huge opportunity, is trying to find problems that aren't quite on the radar yet and try to solve those.

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

It's really easy to create a $1 billion company - you just have to solve a $10 billion problem.

Some people are serial entrepreneurs and want to just move on to the next thing. They just want to clean the slate and start from scratch. I feel that sometimes, too, and the way that we do that here is we build things inside Shutterstock: we launch new products all the time.

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing.

The entrepreneur rarely thinks in terms of what he or she wants, but dreams about results - always results and nothing but results - that can solve someone else's problem or contribute to making someone else's life better.

Entrepreneurs are natural problem-solvers, which means that we always have ideas for new businesses popping into our heads. Having a lot of options is great, but sometimes it can be hard to focus on one when you are keen to move onto the next.

An entrepreneur is not a person who starts a company, but he is the person who actually solves a problem.

I'm in favour of entrepreneurial, risk-taking businesses that create great products and services.

Launching a business is essentially an adventure in problem-solving.

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

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

What is a business? It's simply an idea that makes someone else's life better

Shaping the future is what drives me. Since I left politics, I'm very much interested in emerging markets.

I get a lot of criticism for telling founders to focus first on making something great, instead of worrying about how to make money. And yet that is exactly what Google did. And Apple, for that matter. You'd think examples like that would be enough to convince people.

The business end of business has never interested me.

We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.

Basically if you study entrepreneurs, there is a misnomer: People think that entrepreneurs take risk, and they get rewarded because they take risk. In reality entrepreneurs do everything they can to minimize risk. They are not interested in taking risk. They want free lunches and they go after free lunches.

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