#entrepreneurs

I like Texas and Texans. In Texas, everything is bigger. When Texans win, they win big. And when they lose, it's spectacular. If you really want to learn the attitude of how to handle risk, losing and failure, go to San Antonio and visit the Alamo. The Alamo is a great story of brave people who chose to fight, knowing there was no hope of success against overwhelming odds. They chose to die instead of surrendering. It's an inspiring story worthy of study; nonetheless, it's still a tragic military defeat. They got their butts kicked. A failure if you will. They lost. So how do Texans handle failure? They still shout, "Remember the Alamo!" That's why I like Texans so much. They took a great failure and turned it into a tourist destination that makes them millions. Texans don't bury their failures. They get inspired by them. They take their failures and turn them into rallying cries. Failure inspires Texans to become winners. But that formula is not just the formula for Texans. It is formula for all winners. ↗

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

#inspirational #texas #attitude

Great entrepreneurs are often great listeners and they can spot patterns and pick up on small details in customer stories. ↗

— Alexander Osterwalder

#details #entrepreneurs #great #listeners #often

When entrepreneurs are free to compete, they grow the pie so that everyone's share gets larger. ↗

— John Stossel

#entrepreneurs #everyone #free #gets #grow

No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#community #entrepreneurship #hispanic #hispanic community #more

Entrepreneurship is not for everyone. ↗

— Guy Kawasaki

#everyone

Entrepreneurs have a great ability to create change, be flexible, build companies and cultivate the kind of work environment in which they want to work. ↗

— Tory Burch

#build #change #companies #create #cultivate

Without question, the balance of power on the planet today lies in the hands of business. Corporations rival governments in wealth, influence, and power. Indeed, business all too often pulls the strings of government. Competing institutions-religion, the press, even the military-play subordinate roles in much of the world today. If a values-driven approach to business can begin to redirect this vast power toward more constructive ends than the simple accumulation of wealth, the human race and Planet Earth will have a fighting chance. ↗

— Ben Cohen

#power #social-entrepreneurship #triple-bottom-line #business

Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship...the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth. ↗

— Peter F. Drucker

#entrepreneurship #innovation #business

One of the newest figures to emerge on the world stage in recent years is the social entrepreneur. This is usually someone who burns with desire to make a positive social impact on the world, but believes that the best way of doing it is, as the saying goes, not by giving poor people a fish and feeding them for a day, but by teaching them to fish, in hopes of feeding them for a lifetime. I have come to know several social entrepreneurs in recent years, and most combine a business school brain with a social worker's heart. The triple convergence and the flattening of the world have been a godsend for them. Those who get it and are adapting to it have begun launching some very innovative projects. ↗

— Thomas L. Friedman

#empowerment #social-entrepreneurship #business

A true business opportunity is the on that an entrepreneur invents to grow him or herself. Not to work in, but to work on. ↗

— Michael E. Gerber

#entrepreneurship #business