Entrepreneurial Endeavor Quotes

Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.

I may not be able to work for anybody else again. I may just have to work for myself.

When we opened Disneyland, a lot of people got the impressions that it was a get-rich-quick thing, but they didn't realize that behind Disneyland was this great organization that I built here at the Studio, and they all got into it and we were doing it because we loved to do it.

Some couples could not work together but we enjoy working on our projects and building our art business.

Simply surviving in this business is a feat.

I would think the correlation between an era of increased globalization and an increased desire to participate in an entrepreneurial endeavor is not a coincidence. When interconnectedness is at a peak due to technological advances, the ability to spawn something new is slightly easier.

I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker.

People who support Kickstarter, we love them all. We're so grateful we have these products out here that allowed us to keep the copyrights and own them and everything, but people don't realize just how massive an undertaking it is.

It's something that's really fun to do. It's a family business.

I no longer own or control the businesses which I have spent my life building up.

It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.

Now, if you want to get rich, you have only to produce a product or service that will give people greater use value than the price you charge for it. How rich you get will be determined by the number of people to whom you can sell the product or service.

So I decided to form a production company with my wife and our partner Diane.

I have only admiration and affection for the people of Sherpa Capital, including my co-founder Scott Stanford.

I never thought I'd make any money at all doing this business. Film was never even on the cards.

If I could press a button and have all of Sequoia Capital on the Midas List, I would choose to do that over a honoring a single individual.