Business Idea Quotes

It was something of a personal challenge for me to come up with a business suitable for the Internet world and the Internet age.

I'm not really sure where it comes from, but every time I meet someone who says 'I really want to be an entrepreneur' but has no idea what they want to do, I really just think: 'This person is totally aimless.'

If there isn't a business logic to get to marketability, the chance of an idea's importance in the world is very low.

You think you have this great idea that everyone's going to come join, but that's not how it works.

When I was 13, I opened my own business called The Awesome Pretzel Company, and my dad helped me build a pretzel cart.

I have always had an entrepreneurial spirit. When I was seven, I remember sticking a sign on my bedroom window that read, 'Manicures and massage, come on in.' My mother rushed in, saying, 'All these weirdos are knocking on the door.'

The idea of working in films came after I passed class ten. I was planning to set up a restaurant and manage a business.

Entrepreneurship is all about an idea that creates differentiated business value to one's customers. You must be able to convince your customers about the benefits that association with you or your products will give them. People are ready to pay if they are convinced about your services or products.

No idea for a new growth business ever comes fully shaped. When it emerges, it's half-baked, and it then goes through a process of becoming fully shaped.

We, Will Ferrell and I, were approached by Sequoia, which is a big financing firm up in Palo Alto; they do a lot of Internet stuff, and they came to us and said they had an idea for a comedy site, and Will and I were sorta like, 'Yeah, we don't know. It's the Internet, we've seen it come and go.'

Finding your entrepreneurial spirit and making it strong is more important than the idea or business you are developing.

In the movies, you want a good story and characters that are honest, but you are also looking for a good director who can lead the ship. That's how we look at business. Everybody has a great idea for a start-up, and so do their relatives, and they tell me, 'You gotta build it.' I say, 'I have to believe in it.'

I'd get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It's a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it.

Building a business is not rocket science, it's about having a great idea and seeing it through with integrity.

When you walk into a room and you're asking someone to give you money to finance an idea, that's never easy.

Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one; a global idea, not a strictly American one.

A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make.

I watch a TV show called 'Shark Tank.' It's one of my favorite TV shows. It's basically self-made millionaires who have either come up with their own business or clothing... I came up with the idea of designing clothes.

Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.

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

If you must use more than ten slides to explain your business, you probably don't have a business.

Someday, you need to build a business that's difficult to replicate. This is an important part of a good idea.

I saw these new kinds of stores: the Body Shop, the Sock Shop, and I thought to myself, 'I can do that.'

Wait to start a startup until you come up with an idea that you feel compelled to explore.

I came up with the idea for what later became Paychex in 1970 when I was working for Electronic Accounting Systems, a company that sold payroll processing to companies with 50 to 1,000 employees.