#entrepreneur

I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time doing both. I was about 75% and 75% - still better than 100%, but not what I was accustomed to at work. ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#accustomed #better #both #doing #entrepreneur

Most great entrepreneurs I know are nothing like the other kids. They're almost like tangent lines - those lines that seem to go nowhere. Nothing connects them, until they get out in the real world. Then they connect just fine. ↗

— Barbara Corcoran

#connect #connects #entrepreneurs #fine #get

My job involves a lot of different skills now - I'm as much entrepreneur and management consultant as anything else these days - but IA is still my favorite part of the work I do. ↗

— Jesse James Garrett

#consultant #days #different #else #entrepreneur

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication. ↗

— Harold S. Geneen

#communication #concentration #discrimination #entrepreneurial #essential

Walmart is an amazing story of entrepreneurship and, as one of the world's most powerful brands, touches millions of lives every day. ↗

— Marissa Mayer

#brands #day #entrepreneurship #every #every day

If we lose those people who come to the United States and get a PhD in computer engineering for example and they can't get a visa to stay in the United States, they are sent home, not only do we lose those people working here, but we lose the opportunity that they will have. They are the most likely entrepreneurs, people who will have a new idea. ↗

— Jerry Moran

#computer #engineering #entrepreneurs #example #for example

My role is to try to remove the impediments to entrepreneurs' chance to succeed. It's about improving the business climate to give people a better chance of succeeding. ↗

— Jerry Moran

#better #better chance #business #chance #climate

To me, entrepreneurship means something different. I think of it as identifying and valuing opportunity. ↗

— Glenn Hubbard

#entrepreneurship #i #i think #identifying #me

Answers are not enough, students should be encouraged to ask questions and explore alternatives to the norm. Entrepreneurship and invention are the backbone of the new economy, yet I doubt they get more than a nod in economics courses. ↗

— Jim Hunt

#answers #ask #backbone #courses #doubt

There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy. ↗

— John Baldacci

#arts #creative #design #economy #engineering