Entrepreneurial Leadership Quotes

The emergence of Uber X was really the most important pivot maybe in the history of Silicon Valley. It's a vast majority of Uber's revenues, and so that flexibility and the rapid growth and the fighting the battles, it's all Travis. You can't take any credit away from him.

Founders should think of their company as a product and build it and shape it with the same passion and care.

Stoutly pro-tax-cut and libertarian on social issues like abortion, Trump is a Republican with the business know-how to turn the country's economy around.

The future will be owned and operated by the entrepreneurial ly minded.

I am excited to join the Workday Board at an exciting time in the company's growth and look forward to leveraging my past experience as a technologist and entrepreneur to provide advice as they continue to look at new areas of growth.

'Founder' is a state of mind, not a job description, and if done right, even CEOs who join after day 1 can become founders.

The first society in history whose leaders were neither Attilas nor Witch Doctors, a society led, dominated and created by the Producers, was the United States of America.

I try to get people to see what I have. . . . When you run a computer company, you have to get people to buy into your dreams.

When you’re in a startup, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not.

My job is to find great ideas, exaggerate them, and spread them like hell around the business with the speed of light...And to put resources in to support them. Keep finding ideas. That's the job of just about all of our CEOs.

Empirically the way you get a product visionary as CEO is for him to found the company and not get fired.

The big value of the founder running the company is really two things: the knowledge and the commitment.

I have admired Kevin Plank and Under Armour from afar. He has assembled an impressive team.

Jon Miller would be amazing for Yahoo because he is extremely good at building display advertising businesses and buying young startups.

As I have written before, one of my favorite parts of my job as CEO of Moda Operandi is the opportunity I get to explore international fashion scenes to discover new talent, and then being able to introduce these designers to our community of fashion-savvy customers worldwide.

I understand the appeal of a businessman president. But Trump's business plan is a disaster in the making.

Because it's so empowering, I want people to think about being entrepreneurial regardless. They don't have to start companies, but that's what makes them great employees, that's what makes them great citizens.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

Elon Musk should be at the top of the list of people to emulate when it comes to leading large organizations that are highly maneuverable and use it as a competitive advantage.

Ross Perot came and visited Apple several times and visited the Macintosh factory. Ross was a systems thinker.

Private equity firms working closely with venture capitalists and technologists may be able to unlock assets that others have not leveraged and build technology cultures to iterate on solutions that make these assets more productive.

'Forbes' has championed entrepreneurism since its founding.

Entrepreneurialism, to me, means being able to fail. And I believe that kind of leadership is not necessary only in business, but it's necessary for running countries, too. You've got to be able to believe in something strongly enough that you want to do it even if there's a risk of failure.

I think there's real value in having a founder CEO. Obviously, I'm biased, but I'm driven by a purpose and a mission and a vision, not just profits.

I believe that entrepreneurs play an unmatched role and the accelerating pace of innovation is transforming the face of global challenges. You must think about the solution differently when you're trying to impact 1 billion people rather than affecting 1 million people.