#entrepreneurship

Always make your future bigger than your past. ↗

— Dan Sullivan

#inspirational #motivational #inspirational

Creativity and passion dwindle when hungry. Premiums for talent are easier to demand when desperation isn’t part of the equation. If I’m established, I can demand $350 an hour. If I’m desperate, I may accept $5. ↗

— John-Talmage Mathis

#entrepreneurship #money #passion #money

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

German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship. ↗

— Suzanne Fields

#burgeoning #business #businessmen #cost #discourage

In 1998 I invested in the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship at Strathclyde Uni and subsequently put more capital into enterprise education to try and help change the culture. ↗

— Tom Hunter

#centre #change #culture #education #enterprise

The first - the most obvious (test of a true social entrepreneur) - is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea... The idea - making it happen across society - is something they are married to in the full sense of the word. One key test of that is this: Is this an idea that you see growing out of their whole life? I get very, very suspicious when I see someone who had an idea two years ago. It just doesn't ring true. Because with the typical entrepreneur you can see the roots of the interest when they're very young. There's a real coherence to people's lives. ↗

— Bill Drayton

#social-change #social-entrepreneurship #change

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

— Marco Rubio

#community #entrepreneurship #hispanic #hispanic community #more

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

The true start-up of a business is what happens before you start-up. ↗

— Michael E. Gerber

#entrepreneurship #inspirational #business