Entrepreneurs

Children don’t really understand the concept of health. You can’t give them an apple and say ‘if you eat this you will be healthy when you’re older’ because they don’t understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.

“I wanted a compact, elegant car with twelve cylinders of high cubic capacity, four carburetors and large valves. A sturdy machine, with dry sump lubrication.”

“Screw up often; but screw up ahead of everybody else, and than learn as much, and than use it to make subsequent investments.”

“I could have an office all to myself but since my collaborators don’t have one, then I too am contented to have a desk in a shared room.”

The Hercules’ was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built… I put the sweat of my life into this thing.

I’ve seen lights in the sky, I’ve seen UFOs, I’ve even seen something on the ground that I can’t explain, but I’ve never actually seen a being. I wish I had.

“Google is what happens when we pool information energy on a software network. Everyone understands this. Bitcoin is what happens when we pool monetary energy on a software network. Few understand this.”

“Love what you do and do what you love, otherwise you will become unhappy and self-defeating.”

“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”

“If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it’s within your reach. And it’ll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It’ll be worth it, I promise.”

“There is no triumph or glory in the world that’s worth an inch of human skin.”

Boeing is working on an invisible fighter jet so nobody can see who’s flying it. Didn’t George Bush fly this in the National Guard, I believe?

“Even before I helped to co-found Microsoft, I saw a connected future. I called that future The Wired World.” Paul Allen

If you want to change this world, this community that we all live in, then get up and do it. And just start something.

Challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction. I believe that ambition and initiative will ultimately triumph.

In the journey of an entrepreneur, the most important thing is self-belief and the ability to convert that belief into reality.

I’ve always been pleased with the investments I’ve made with my friend Albert Frere and I regret not having followed him more, because I would have been a lot richer.

“I don’t believe in taking right decisions. I take decisions and then make them right.”

“Values carry the message of shared purposes, standards and conceptions of what is worth living for and what is worth striving for.”

Sometimes the first step is the hardest: coming up with an idea. Coming up with an idea should be like sitting on a pin-it should make you jump up and do something.

You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

“Performance leads to recognition. Recognition brings respect. Respect enhances power. Humility and grace in one’s moments of power enhances dignity of an organisation.”

If anyone alone decides whether a man is to be promoted, it is the man himself.

“Success is more than luck. You have to believe in yourself and make it happen.”

Trying new things and not being afraid to fail along the way are more important than what you learn in school.

“Anybody who seeks wealth as an end in itself is always going to be disappointed. What you really should be doing is seeking excellence in achievement.”

“You are remembered, he said, prophetically, for the rules you break.”

My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.

“Pathological evil in humans is characterized by feelings of personal impotence and weakness which is stimulated by helpless victims”

“In fashion, you know you have succeeded when there is an element of upset.”

“Whatever success I have attained has been the result of much hard work and many sleepless nights.”

“You shouldn’t focus on why you can’t do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.”

“It only takes true passion to reach your goal. Sometimes, hard work may not count up as much as passion does. Also, it isn’t required that you follow a guided roadmap to success. Instead, take your own route and make a path of success out of it.”

Uber chairman Garrett Camp cofounded the ride-hailing startup with Travis Kalanick in 2009. Garrett Camp  is a Canadian billionaire entrepreneur. He has helped build a series of companies, including founding StumbleUpon, a web-discovery tool; co-founding Uber;and …

Garrett Camp Quotes Read More »

Michael Dell is the chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies, which was formed in 2016 when Dell merged with computer storage giant EMC. In May 2017 Dell donated $1 billion …

Michael Dell Quotes Read More »

Reed Hastings, in full Wilmot Reed Hastings, Jr., (born October 8, 1960, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.), American entrepreneur who was cofounder (1997) and CEO (1998– ) of Netflix, a media-streaming and video-rental company. “Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, …

Reed Hastings Quotes Read More »

Brian Chesky cofounded peer-to-peer room and home rental company Airbnb with Nathan Blecharczyk and Joe Gebbia in 2008; Chesky is CEO. A former bodybuilder, Chesky attended Rhode Island School of …

Brian Chesky Quotes  Read More »

Lawrence Joseph Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is an American business magnate and investor who is the co-founder, executive chairman, chief technology officer (CTO) and former chief executive officer (CEO) of …

Larry Ellison Quotes Read More »

I would have been an architect. But no, if I had it to live all over again. I would be me. Not Felix Rohatyn. Not Alfred Taubman.