#entrepreneurs

Over the past century, researchers have studied business entrepreneurs extensively.. In contrast, social entrepreneurs have received little attention. Historically, they have been cast as humanitarians or saints, and stories of their work have been passed down more in the form of children's tales than case studies. While the stories may inspire, they fail to make social entrepreneurs' methods comprehensible. One can analyze an entrepreneur, but how does one analyze a saint? ↗

— David Bornstein

#social-entrepreneurship #business

The idea of finding value in what people are willing to pay to get rid of it one of the fundamental backbones of ecocapitalism, as I think of it now. ↗

— Tom Szaky

#entrepreneurship #environmentalism #business

In looking at waste as an entirely modern, man-made idea, I stopped viewing garbage as garbage and instead slowly started to see it as a commodity. ↗

— Tom Szaky

#entrepreneurship #environmentalism #business

Our thoughts and our mind-sets greatly affect our perception of what life is really about ↗

— Wogu Donald

#entrepreneurship #inspirational #relationships #education

People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it. And what you do simply proves what you believe ↗

— Simon Sinek

#marketing #inspirational

Always make your future bigger than your past. ↗

— Dan Sullivan

#inspirational #motivational #inspirational

The most important thing is not to let fundraising get you down. Startups live or die on morale. If you let the difficulty of raising money destroy your morale, it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy. ↗

— Paul Graham

#entrepreneurship #fundraising #morale #startups #money

The companies that refused to make hard choices, or refused to admit that anything much was happening, fared badly. If they survive, it is only because their respective governments will not let them go under. ↗

— Peter F. Drucker

#innovation #respect

With his economic speeches in response to Obama's 'you didn't build that' fiasco, Romney proved that he does have fire in his belly and that he is fervently dedicated to free enterprise, entrepreneurship and pro-growth policies. ↗

— David Limbaugh

#build #dedicated #does #economic #enterprise

Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#business world #capital #daunting #entrepreneurs #especially