Entrepreneurship Quotes

Good ideas will always get funded, so that's not going to be a problem. But you will see that it will be harder and harder for bad ideas to get funded.

I told all of our original investors that they would lose their money for sure.

The vision is to figure out how there can really be dynamic entrepreneurialism in space.

You cannot make a giant space company in your dorm room. Not today. And the reason is that the heavy lifting infrastructure isn't in place.

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.

Young entrepreneurs will make a difference in the Indian ecosystem.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.