Entrepreneurial Drive Quotes

Being an entrepreneur is an existential, not just a financial thing.

I never knew anything other than wanting to be an entrepreneur. I tried my first business when I was 6 years old, and I started another business when I was 8. I don't think I knew anything besides that.

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.

Entrepreneurs are all a little crazy. There is a fine line between an entrepreneur and a crazy person. Crazy people see and feel things that others don't. An entrepreneur's dream is often a kind of madness, and it is almost as isolating. What differentiates the entrepreneur from the crazy person is that the former gets other people to believe in his vision.

Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final impetus to human action is given by material impulses ... merchants stood as a driving force behind the heroes of the age of discovery; this first heroic impulse to conquer the world emanated from very mortal forces

Entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.

Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.

A founder is the emotional energy aorta of a company. The energy that emanates from a founder attracts people and capital to the endeavor. When that energy goes away, it can feel impossible to do the job.

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

True entrepreneurshi p comes only from risk-taking.

I look for the entrepreneur to capture my attention. If you don't come out with a great presentation, you're dead. That's a big red flag.

Nearly 100% of innovation-from business to politics-is inspired not by "market analysis" but by people who are supremely pissed off by the way things are.

Once you're an entrepreneur you're always an entrepreneur, and you need that fix.

I must say that in my early years, I was incredibly aggressive. I was working as hard as I could to build a business, to try to dominate a business. And I probably irritated a lot of people.

Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to consummate their entrepreneurial ideas.

In the Valley, what's happened is you have entrepreneurs that just want to fill a hole in the market and have a rich exit.

You can't study to be an entrepreneur. Sometimes, you just have to jump.

The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.

If you hate to lose, you do whatever you need to do to make sure you're business is successful.

Most people are average. Founders are not. Founders' traits seem to have an inverse normal distribution to them.

Every venture capitalist says at some point, 'I wish I could run this company myself' - to be the entrepreneur instead of the investor.

Life is about perspective and I have a different perspective from most. I am not trying to be in Hip Hop at 43 and looking like an old man. I always enjoyed business and my independence. I am an Entrepreneur.

There is no point in starting your own business unless you do it out of a sense of frustration.

If you're going to be an entrepreneur... it's not all textbook. It's gut feeling, it's intuition, it's a feeling you have that you can do this and make it happen. I think you have to have a personality.

My mother is an artist, my father an entrepreneur.