Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. Wright Mills

The market is sovereign and in the magic economy of the small entrepreneur there is no authoritarian center... in the political sphere... the equilibrium of powers prevails, and hence there is no chance of despotism.

Chip Conley

Conventional wisdom suggests the primary motivator for entrepreneurs is money or wealth creation and, in fact, much of the political debate tends to center around what kind of tax or regulatory policy changes will turn corporate suits into small business adventurers overnight.

Ben Silbermann

Don't take too much advice.

Ben Silbermann

Just build things and find out if they work.

Barbara Corcoran

You can't study to be an entrepreneur. Sometimes, you just have to jump.

Barbara Corcoran

I don't invest anymore in entrepreneurs who don't have charisma.

Charles Koch

But it [crony capitalism] erodes our overall standard of living and stifles entrepreneurs by rewarding the politically favored rather than those who provide what consumers want.

Charles Lindbergh

Life without risks is not worth living.

Daymond John

A savvy entrepreneur will not always look for investment money, first.

David Sedaris

I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn't like it, and changed.

Louis C. K.

Expensive quality work doesn't cost more - it pays.

Brian Tracy

Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'

Charlie Munger

The harder you work, the more confidence you get. But you may be working hard on something that is false.

Benjamin Franklin

Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality.

David Duchovny

Larry Grobel's interviews are informative and insightful without being pandering or intrusive. You get the sense at all times of both intelligence at work-the interviewee's and Grobel's-both inspired by the encounter.

Kurt Vonnegut

I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.

John Maynard Keynes

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

Dave Ramsey

Success is a pile of failure that you are standing on.

Agnes Martin

I paint with my back to the world

Agnes Repplier

There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.

Agnes Repplier

There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania...

Aaron Tveit

In an ideal world for me, I would like to go back and forth [between film and theater]. I kind of want to do it all

Charlotte Bronte

Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich.

Charlotte Bronte

You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.

Charlie Haden

You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.

Charlie Daniels

I wouldn't trade places with anybody in the world. I love what I do.

Charlie Chaplin

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.