Entrepreneurship Quotes

"In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone." "To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials." "Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want." "Building a business is not rocket science, it’s about having a great idea and seeing it through with integrity." "Entrepreneurial business favors the open mind. It favors people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely for the joy of doing so." "A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts." "If you spot an opportunity and are really excited by it, throw yourself into it with everything you've got." "I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn’t really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going." "We, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market." "Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line." "If you want to be a millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline." "You’ve got to take risks if you’re going to succeed. I would much rather ask forgiveness than permission." "My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around." "Whatever business you are in, every company can shoot for the start in their own way." "A business is simply an idea to make other people’s lives better."