Nick Nolte Quotes

I knew how to sell. I felt confident I could run a business. I was willing to outwork anyone. I wasn't afraid to live like a student on next to nothing. So that meant I had absolutely nothing to lose and everything to gain.

It is the creative and enterprising spirit of people that is indispensable. Everything else is supplemental.

Freelancers are 'free' because they take risks - they don't like being told what to do. That's both exciting and daunting, because you have to police you.

Britain and the US remain the Wild West for ideas, where pioneers push each other towards ever greater heights in the white heat of free enterprise. No one knows their place, no one fears failure and no one is ashamed of success.

True entrepreneurs have to really forego almost everything; they have to put it all on the line.

Never let money get in the way of an idea

I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I'm their hero.

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.

Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ideas, the desire to change things, and has little care for life.

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

I just got sick of not being able to raise money for a movie - that's what happens, so I just made my own.

It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business. John was rejected by studios, he borrowed money and did movies with his own money. You're either courageous or not. You have to find a way.

I want to do exactly what I want to do. I'd rather gamble on the box office than beg for a grant.

I think that initial independence is very important; that's what being an entrepreneur is all about.

There was a generation of people who moved here to make something of themselves. They had to really struggle and created really something on their own apart from a lot of attention. It was a really exciting time here.

The TED Fellowship exposed me to a set of youngsters who had wilder ideas than I did - and almost all of them were pursuing their wild and crazy ideas without fear of failure.

I'm strong and fearless and not afraid to take risks in business.

The heart of the entrepreneur can beat freely in anyone.

When you come into the industry as an outsider, you need to have an entrepreneurial spirit to succeed. In Hollywood, it's very clear that you either play by the rules or make up your own. And I wanted to do it my way.

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

If you are going to survive in business, show business or any business, then you have to be bold.

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

The enterprising spirit is gone when one goes South.

Part of me is very entrepreneurial.