Entrepreneurship Quotes

If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

Starting a business is not for everyone. Starting a business - I'd say, number one is have a high pain threshold.

As much as possible, avoid hiring MBAs. MBA programs don't teach people how to create companies.

So probably from when I was 12, I knew I was going to start a company eventually.

With the help of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, we have formed a Council with our neighbors in Canada to help ensure that women entrepreneurs have access to the networks, markets and capital they need to start a business and live out their financial dreams.

Central planning didn't work for Stalin or Mao, and it won't work for an entrepreneur either.

Being an entrepreneur isn't really about starting a business. It's a way of looking at the world: seeing opportunity where others see obstacles, taking risks when others take refuge.

If a founder has passion and innovation, he needs to be supported. I am more intuitive than a numbers person, and I recognise that not all investments are going to be positive. Some may fail, and some may have problems for other reasons. That is life.

Young entrepreneurs will make a difference in the Indian ecosystem.

New startups embody the creativity, the innovation of young people, and for me, it was and is a very worthwhile experience to interact with them.

A founder who is in for the short run, or has no passion for the sector he is in, doesn't give me a great deal of comfort.

Some entrepreneurs talk of a high burn rate, high advertising rate, and so on, with no outcome, so it doesn't impress me. But an entrepreneur who has that kind of a feeling of responsibility towards his investors is somebody who will have all my support.

I experienced, along with the rest of the team, what it was like to go from being a Cinderella story with a great entrepreneur in Sam Walton to being large and disliked just because you're large, and all of the negatives that went with it. So I personally don't use the word "scale" very much because when I hear that word I think of pain.

I dream of a Digital India where e-Commerce drives Entrepreneurship.

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

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

I hate it when people call themselves 'entrepreneurs' when what they're really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell of go public, so they can cash in and move on. They're unwilling to do the work it takes to build a real company, which is the hardest work in business.

If a user is having a problem, it's our problem.

I sat in a garage and invented the future.