Entreprenörskap | Investerarcitat

Entreprenörskap- "Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work."

Entreprenörer är människor som vågar välja sina egna vägar och fullfölja sina visioner. De är starkt oberoende, påtagligt kreativa och oerhört energiska. I sin vägran att acceptera ett nej tillför de samhället innovationer, vidareutvecklingar och förbättringar som förhöjer vår gemensamma livskvalitet. De är vardagshjältarna som jobbar på i det tysta, men ändå utgör en drivande kraft i samhällsekonomin. Entreprenörskap är spännande, utvecklande och givande. Samtidigt kräver det mod, uthållighet och mer hårt arbete än de flesta människor är villiga att lägga ner.

Most people think it’s all about the idea. It’s not. EVERYONE has ideas. The hard part is doing the homework to know if the idea could work in an industry, then doing the preparation to be able to execute on the idea.

Mark Cuban

I’m convinced that the only way to get ahead in this world is to live and sell dangerously. You’ve got to live beyond your means. You’ve got to commit yourself to an act or vision that pulls you further than you want to go and forces you to use your hidden strengths

John Johnson

All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.

Aristotle

Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction.

Sam Walton

My father always said working for somebody else never amounted to anything. You have to be an entrepreneur.

Wayne Huizenga

You are nuts and you should be proud of it. Stick with what you believe in.

Trip Hawkins

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Albert Schweitzer

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

Thomas J. Watson

I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.

C. J. Walker

You must be very patient, very persistent. The world isn’t going to shower gold coins on you just because you have a good idea. You’re going to have to work like crazy to bring that idea to the attention of people. They’re not going to buy it unless they know about it.

Herb Kelleher

To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.

Henry J. Heinz

Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.

Tim Blixseth

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

Harold Geneen

Changes occur because there’s a gap between what is and what should be.

Craig McCaw

Filling a need that others aren’t addressing has always been a focus of the companies that I have been involved with.

Craig McCaw

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Steve Jobs

If a little money does not go out, great money will not come in.

Confucius

You’re going to have to have probably five times as much capital as you thought you would. Because if you’re an entrepreneur, you’re optimistic by nature. So you think, in six months, we’re going to be sailing. But that optimism causes you to raise a lot less capital than you need in most cases, and it’s very lonely.

Herb Kelleher

My father said: “Go to school”! And I said “Are you crazy?”

Peter van Stalk

My first-grade teacher told me I was the dumbest student she ever had. She did me a favor. If she told me I was very smart, I wouldn’t have tried to improve.

Ernest Gallo

There is no royal flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it for if I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard.

Madam C J Walker

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

John D Rockefeller

Perseverance is my motto.

Madam C J Walker

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

Thomas Edison

There are no shortcuts. You have to work hard, and try to put yourself in a position where if luck strikes, you can see the opportunity and take advantage of it. I would also say it’s hard not to fool yourself. Everyone tells you how they are going to be “special,” but few do the work to get there. Do the work.

Mark Cuban

The greatest failure is not to try. Had I listened to all the people during the course of my life who said, “You can’t. You’ll fail. It won’t work. You don’t have…,” I wouldn’t be here today.

Debbie Fields

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Vidal Sassoon

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.

Roy Ash

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Thomas Carlyle

You have to be open-minded when those early opportunities present themselves; take advantage of them whether they’re going to make you a lot of money or not.

Rachael Ray

You won’t get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.

John Lennon

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Jim Rohn

I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.

Estee Lauder

It was an extremely satisfying experience. Taking smart risks can be very gratifying.

Reed Hastings

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.

Aristotle

Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are

Howard Hughes

The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart’s attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it. When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.

Vera Wang

If a man goes into business with only the idea of making a lot of money, chances are he won’t. But if he puts service and quality first, the money will take care of itself. Producing a first-class product that is a real need is a much stronger motivation for success than getting rich.

Joyce Hall

Share your success and help others succeed. Give everyone a chance to have a piece of the pie. If the pie’s not big enough, make a bigger pie.

Dave Thomas

What was the worst that could happen? Everyone turn me down? Big deal.

J. K. Rowling

When I talk to college students about all of this, I tell them to work with their strengths, not their weaknesses. If at you’re not good in reading, do something else. Go where you are strong.

Paul Orfalea

If there’s something I can do and I feel it should be done, I just want to do it. I just don’t want to leave it undone because I’ll sit back and say, why didn’t I do that? Why didn’t I start that business?

Robert Johnson

Life´s too short to be living somebody else´s dream.

Hugh Hefner

I haven’t always done a good job, and I haven’t always been successful, but I know that I have tried.

George Steinbrenner

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

Thomas Edison

Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next.

George Steinbrenner

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Susan Ertz

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect .

Adam Osborne

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

Anita Roddick

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

John C. Maxwell

I will never have a heart attack. I give them.

George Steinbrenner

We have no intention of failing. The only question is how great a success we’ll have.

Rupert Murdoch

Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in men.

Nobody can be successful if he doesn’t love his work.

David Sarnoff

The razor was looked upon as a joke by all my friends. A common greeting was, “Well, Gillette, how’s the razor?” If I had been technically trained, I would have quit.

King Gillette

Overcoming hardships and working around and through their obstacles to achieve an education is what I call a true success.

Wayne Huizenga

I never, at any period of my life, aspired to become wealthy, but the fierce competition perhaps developed a fighting spirit, and in the effort to secure our share, the business has succeeded. It is my hope that the property that kind Providence has brought me may be helpful to many others, and that I may be found a faithful steward.

W K Kellogg

A constant striving for perfection in every aspect of our business.

Ernest Gallo

Over the past six years I’ve had many difficulties. But I never lost my passion.

Robin Li

My confidence was unlimited.

Ernest Gallo

When I talked to business schools occasionally, the professor of management is devastated when I say we didn’t have any plans when we started.

William Hewlett

Success in life depends on who your parents were and what circumstances you grew up in.

Ernest Gallo

Dollars have never been known to produce character, and character will never be produced by money.

W K Kellogg

I’ll invest my money in people.

W K Kellogg

We didn’t start our business to see how much money we could make, but to see how good a job we could do.

Joyce Hall

A wide market awaited the manufacturer of food products who set purity and quality above everything else in their preparation.

Henry J. Heinz

I figured I wasn’t as smart as some of the other fellows, so I had to work twice as hard.

Joyce Hall

Whenever I felt down, whenever I started wondering what homeless shelter I would die in, [my mother] would buck me up by telling me: you know, Paul, the A students work for the B students, the C students run the companies, and the D students dedicate the buildings.

All my life I knew I would have a big business. That’s what I wanted from the time I was in second grade; there was never a doubt in my mind.

Paul Orfalea

Building an entirely new sort of business from a single Xerox copy machine…gave me the life the world seemed determined to deny me when I was younger.

Paul Orfalea

I didn’t listen. I knew what I was going to do.

Paul Orfalea

Keep your nose in the window long enough, and they are going to let you in.

Paul Orfalea

Keep your nose in the window long enough, and they are going to let you in.

Paul Orfalea

All I was trying to do was make a living. In those days, if you didn’t work, you didn’t eat. And I like to eat.

Joyce Hall

The Lord will provide. It’s a good idea to give the Lord a little help.

Joyce Hall

I’m hell-bent on quality.

Joyce Hall

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

E. Joseph Cossman

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.

Mario Andretti

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.

Brian Tracy

The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job.

Michael Gerber

Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Thomas J. Watson

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Bill Cosby

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.

W. Clement Stone

I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.

Harland Sanders

Success is not in what you have, but who you are.

Bo Bennet

Failure is not about insecurity. It’s about lack of execution.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize the maximum forces that are within us.

David Sarnoff

I never thought I’d be successful. It seems in my own mind that in everything I’ve undertaken I’ve never quite made the mark. But I’ve always been able to put disappointments aside. Success isn’t about the end result; it’s about what you learn along the way.

Vera Wang

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

David Sarnoff

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

Jim Rohn

You can’t build a strong corporation with a lot of committees and a board that has to be consulted every turn. You have to be able to make decisions on your own.

Keith Rupert Murdoch

If there´´s something I want, nothing stops me.

Calvin Clein

Above all, we wish to avoid having a dissatisfied customer.
We consider our customers a part of our organization, and
we want them to feel free to make any criticism they see fit
in regard to our merchandise or service. Sell practical, tested
merchandise at reasonable profit, treat your customers like human
beings — and they will always come back.

L L Bean

Go work for somebody and get paid to learn. It’s tempting to think you can go off and do your own thing, but there is so much to learn in ways you’d never know.

Vera Wang

I think it was easier to be an entrepreneur in the ’30s than it was in the ’60s and ’70s, and I think it was easier in the 1890s than it was in the ’30s. As society becomes more regulated, it becomes more difficult to launch entrepreneurial ventures. It’s harder today – but not impossible.

Herb Kelleher

Patience; this is the greatest business asset. Wait for the right time to make your moves.

J Paul Getty

Above all, you want to create something you are proud of. That’s always been my philosophy of business. I can honestly say that I have never gone into any business purely to make money. If that is the sole motive, then I believe you are better off doing nothing.

Richard Branson

I was always motivated. Even the things I wasn’t supposed to do, I undertook with great energy, dedication, and perseverance.

Herb Kelleher

Never say no when a client asks for something, even if it is the moon. You can always try, and anyhow there is plenty of time afterwards to explain that it was not possible.

Cesar Ritz

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Napoleon Hill

It is better to aim at perfection and miss it than to aim at imperfection and hit it.

Thomas Watson

And that’s the secret. Timing, hard work and smart partners. Using that formula, I’ve either founded or funded over 80 companies, and none have gone bankrupt. Most have done very well.

Terry Matthew

Most of us never recognize opportunity until it goes to work in our competitor’s business.

P. Andarr

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn’t always have to be their top priority.

William Arthur Ward

It was a risk. I had a husband and I was pregnant with my oldest son. But I don’t look at risk the way other people do. When you’re an entrepreneur, you have to go in feeling like you’re going to be successful.

Lilian Vernon

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.

P.D. Armour

When the product is right, you don’t have to be a great marketer.

Lee Iacocca

In our factory, we make lipstick. In our advertising, we sell hope.

Charles Revlon

I think America is a hard nut to crack. But once you get a toehold it’s a great place for an entrepreneur because people are so enthusiastic, and you have the most enthusiastic audiences in world.

Simon Cowell

Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy.

Marshall Field

Overcoming hardships and working around and through their obstacles to achieve an education is what I call a true success.

Wayne Huizenga

People are what determine your success in the future. Surround yourself with good people and you won’t fail.

Wayne Huizenga

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.

Martha Stewart

I really would not change anything. Have a passion for what you do, work hard, have great people with good personalities, enjoy the ride.

Wayne Huizenga

Success is obtaining your goals and objectives. Doing what others do not.

Wayne Huizenga

The good things take care of themselves. We want to find all the negatives.

Wayne Huizenga

Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it’s you.

Edwin H. Land

If you want to reach a goal, you must ‘see the reaching’ in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.

Zig Ziglar

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Jim Rohn

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Christopher Morley

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Walt Disney

Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don’t compromise.

Simon Cowell

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

Henry Luce

There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.

Lee Iacocca

If you did not look after today’s business then you might as well forget about tomorrow.

Isaac Mophatlane

Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down.

John D. Wright

Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, then progress stops.

Thomas Watson

Whenever I see an opportunity and a chance to change something, I go at it and I lay out all the facts to everybody…And when I come to this space, I’m going to come with talent, I’m going to come with focus. And I’m going to do the job as competitively as the next guy.

Robert Johnson

If you’re not stubborn, you’ll give up on experiments too soon. And if you’re not flexible, you’ll pound your head against the wall and you won’t see a different solution to a problem you’re trying to solve.

Jeff Bezos

Behind every adversity is an opportunity. If you lament over the adversity, you will miss the opportunity.

Ajaero Tony Martins

But I think the opportunities are everywhere now. The changes in technology make all things possible. The Internet and all of that make it possible for people to start businesses of all kinds with much less capital than was once true. You can go into publishing by starting your own little Web site.

Hugh Hefner

When I think of invention I always think of America. You’re always seeing ads: “Have you got the next big idea?” There seems to be that spirit in America of inventions and inventors.

Simon Cowell

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Harold R. McAlindon

I haven’t done anything particularly harsh. Harshness to me is giving somebody false hopes and not following through. That’s harsh. Telling some guy or some girl who’ve got zero talent that they have zero talent actually is a kindness.

Simon Cowell

I can’t bear political correctness. I don’t like a rule driven life and I hate the fact that you can’t criticize a fat person.

Simon Cowell

I urge one and all to live this life as if there is no reward in the afterlife, and do it in a moral way that makes it better for you and for those around you and leaves this world a little better place than when you found it.

Hugh Hefner

“Stora innovatörer uppfinner sin marknad.”

Peter Drucker

“En entreprenör är en man som saknar ett hem.”

Refaat El-sayed

“The greater confusion there is on the marketplace. the more opportunities there are for an entrepreneur.”

Mark McCormack

“Ge hjärna, själ hjärta och kropp – allting, till affärerna.”

Nathan Rothschild

My success and my life are a direct reflection of the fact that I am living out a lot of men’s fantasies. The best part of all is that they are my fantasies as well.

Hugh Hefner

“Man kan inte skruva på rattar och vänta sig resultat. Man måste skruva på människor istället. De reser sig som vidjor när de får ansvar och känner att det är på dem det hänger.”

Jan Carlzon

“Älska vad du gör, eller gör det inte alls.”

Kazuo Inamori

If you don’t break a hole through the brick wall, don’t just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that wall.

Russell Simmons

It’s all about the work. Nothing is going to fall into your lap.

Russell Simmons

If something doesn’t work, then you know what not to do.

Russell Simmons

Whatever they can imagine for themselves, they can accomplish.

Russell Simmons

Rules are sometimes a problem when you’re a creative entrepreneur.

Russell Simmons

The MBA thing doesn’t matter sometimes. That’s common sense.

Russell Simmons

Everything you need to know about success is inside of you, because I believe it is inside of all of us. That is, all human beings have potential for infinite success.

Russell Simmons

Everybody has a great idea, but very few are successful without true focus.

Russell Simmons

That’s the most basic thing: Stick with your vision.

Russell Simmons

You have to stick with what you start.

Russell Simmons

You’ve got to put your head down and do the work. There are no shortcuts.

Russell Simmons

You need to be able to exploit all media. The Internet is the basis for all synergistic opportunities in my companies, but you don’t want to develop that content, put it on the Web, and have no other exposure for it.

Russell Simmons

You know, sometimes people never get to learn how successful they could have been because they give up too easily. If I’ve learned one thing in all my years in the business, it’s that often things don’t work out the way you want at first. But that doesn’t mean you should give up.

Russell Simmons

Lyckan är inte att nå sitt mål. Lyckan är att vara på väg.

Ingvar Kamprad

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice; and most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs

Alla stora beslut fattas med begränsad information och under osäkerhet.

Erland Waldenström

For whatsoever thy hands find to do, do it with all thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom in the grave.

Ecclesiastes 9: 10

Tag kalkylerade risker, det är någonting helt annat än dumdristighet.

George Patton, amerikansk general

Det som inte tar kål på mig gör mig starkare.

Friedrich Nietsche

People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

Peter Drucker

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

Henry Ford

The most important aspect of my personality as far as determining my success goes; has been my questioning conventional wisdom, doubting experts and questioning authority. While that can be painful in your relationships with your parents and teachers, it’s enormously useful in life.

Larry Ellison

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes… but no plans.

Peter Drucker

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Peter Drucker

What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it, that’s another matter.

Peter Drucker

The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.

Peter Drucker

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Peter Drucker

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

Peter Drucker

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Peter Drucker

Creativity takes courage.

Henri Matisse

Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have

Zig Ziglar

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

Colin R. Davis

Success is how high you bounce after you hit bottom.

General George Patton

If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.

Bo Bennett

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

David Ogilvy

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.

Zig Ziglar

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world all rests on perseverance.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.

Cicero

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Benjamin Disraeli

I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could. And no hours, nor amount of labour, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me. And I have done that ever since, and I win by it. I know.