Successful Entrepreneurs Quotes

Some incubators, like Y Combinator and TechStars, were started by successful entrepreneurs wishing to help the next generation learn from their experiences. Other programs, such as Viterbi Startup Garage and Austin Technology Incubator, were created by universities to help young entrepreneurs bridge the knowledge gap from student to funded company.

Music is one of those businesses in which, if you're talented and hustle hard enough, you can make it - specifically as an entrepreneur. If you look as far back as Berry Gordy, Russell Simmons, Andre Harrell, L.A. Reid, and Sean 'Diddy' Combs, there's a whole lineage of successful black entrepreneurs who have built their own companies from scratch.

The Curbside founders are successful entrepreneurs, who each have sold their companies to Apple.

People don't know that there were very successful black businessmen in the years of apartheid.

I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

An incredibly high percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic. That's one of the little-known facts.

After reading the Elon Musk book and getting a Tesla - he is at the top of my list of inspiring founders.

Every entrepreneur deals with fears of failure. However, the truly successful know how to face these fears and keep on working.

We need more Rocafellas; we need more Bad Boys.

I have noticed that most of the successful businessmen are not that educated. But they are the ones who hire highly educated employees to work for them.

I'm from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago.

I would like to see more successful business people run for office.

My favorite podcast ever is 'How I Built This.'

There are a number of traits that combine to create entrepreneurial potential. We find that openness coordinates very well with successful entrepreneurs. The more open-minded you are, the more you see the world as it actually is. The more closed-minded, the more you see the world as you want it to be.

Chris Brown owns 14 of my belts. Swizz Beatz owns a zillion of my belts. They were supporting me before I was even anybody.

I want people that made a fortune.

The best entrepreneurs I've ever met are all good communicators. It's perhaps one of the very few unifying factors.

We have some of the smartest businessmen in India, who have created huge wealth.

The payouts for starting a business are just terrible when you account for risk. A tiny minority of entrepreneurs ever get rich. And the majority of entrepreneurs would probably make far more money, and have more stable personal relationships, if they just worked for someone else.

Don't let the bastards get you down.

I really don't have heroes in business; I never looked up at business people.

The innovators' spirit of America still exists. However, there is a narrative in America which goes like - you must go to MIT to get your calling card. Or you go to Harvard and then you drop out and then you've made it.

Entrepreneurs with disabilities are overwhelmingly successful.

I think the greatest CEOs in the United States, business, anyway, are the ones you don't hear too much about.

The most successful entrepreneurs in the world have a combination of the right type of personality and fortunate life circumstance. A lot of them have been doing it most of their life.