Side hustles Quotes

The image of entrepreneurship as the province of the unprivileged and un-entitled - the Horatio Alger, rags to riches myth - flies in the face of reality.

- Andrew Yang

In my experience, entrepreneurship tends to be kind of cumulative, like a layer cake. Taking some time away can make it hard to rev up.

- Andrew Yang

There is a common and persistent belief out there that entrepreneurship is about creativity - that it's about having a great idea. But it's not, really. Entrepreneurship isn't about creativity. It's about organization-building - which, in turn, is about people.

- Andrew Yang

For most students at universities around the country, studying entrepreneurship is a pleasant intellectual diversion, not a professional choice, path, or commitment.

- Andrew Yang

The key is to somehow find a way of tackling rent-seeking, crony capitalism, and corruption - legal and illegal - and build fairer, more equal society without compromising innovation or entrepreneurship.

- Angus Deaton

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

- Anita Roddick

I was raised with a sense of entrepreneurship - my father owned a roofing business, and I grew up with the idea that you never want someone telling you what you can and cannot do.

- Anthony Mackie

I do think a lot of people are trying to do important things still, and I think it is really a great thing that entrepreneurship is getting easier. When I started, it was just much harder to begin a company.

- Ben Horowitz

As I continue to believe that innovation and entrepreneurship are the key drivers to our economic future, it's frustrating to hear such little cogent discussion around it.

- Brad Feld

That's the problem with so many organizations around entrepreneurship. They're driven by metrics that don't matter.

- Brad Feld

In general, the more entrepreneurs we have, the better off we will be because the economy is driven by small businesses and creative ideas... I'm really excited about what the future holds for women entrepreneurship and to be a small part of that by helping Kim Kardashian and Jessica Alba start their businesses.

- Brian Lee

I have always been fascinated by entrepreneurship.

- Caroline Ghosn

Entrepreneurship is a muscle, and winning is an endurance game.

- Caroline Ghosn

We are very committed to highlighting women succeeding in entrepreneurship or technology.

- Caroline Ghosn

Indonesia was colonized for 350 years. We lost our mind-set for entrepreneurship. We only become workers.

- Ciputra

Other than much needed infrastructure development, local administrations in Papua must encourage entrepreneurship and creativity.

- Ciputra

Clearly, there is a gender imbalance when it comes to venture capital and entrepreneurship.

- David Cohen

Our goal is simply to make entrepreneurship more accessible to everyone around the world throughout the entrepreneurial journey, from inspiration to IPO.

- David Cohen

In Boulder entrepreneurship circles, there is a genuine desire to see others succeed and a general belief that karma matters. There's a sense that together we're building something here, and that we're all a meaningful part of it.

- David Cohen

Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.

- Ed Smith

Confidence, capital, and credit fuel entrepreneurship and economic expansion.

- Elaine Chao

Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship. It drives everything: Job creation, poverty alleviation, innovation.

- Elliott Bisnow

I believe the quickest and most sure way to reduce poverty, raise living standards and create jobs around the world is to make economies and governments more open and free, thereby encouraging business and entrepreneurship.

- Elliott Bisnow

You get a culture of entrepreneurship after you have successfully changed the accountability system so that people can use a better process. Process drives culture, not the other way around, so you can't just change the culture, you have to change the system.

- Eric Ries

There are few people who exemplify the ideals of opportunity, entrepreneurship and commitment to the collective good than the great New Yorker and the face of the $10 bill, Alexander Hamilton.

- Eric Schneiderman

Successful entrepreneurship takes complete dedication and careful strategizing along with market analysis. Plus, successful startups provide countless benefits to a healthy economy and consumers in need.

- Fabrizio Moreira

I think for larger-scale entrepreneurship, it's true - for men and women - that people who already have capital tend to do better.

- Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business.

- Geoff Mulgan

To me, entrepreneurship means something different. I think of it as identifying and valuing opportunity.

- Glenn Hubbard

The good news about entrepreneurship is that your fate is in your hands. The bad news is that your fate is in your hands!

- Guy Kawasaki

Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.

- Guy Kawasaki

Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.

- Ha-Joon Chang

I always wanted to do creative things, but I was really interested in entrepreneurship. My family comes from a very entrepreneurial culture, so business was always something I was interested in.

- Imran Amed

A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.

- Iqbal Quadir

Entrepreneurship is the key to emerging technologies.

- James H. Clark

That's one of the things I love about entrepreneurship is that if you see something that you don't like - and if you think you have a better idea - you can pursue your model.

- Jason Calacanis

I am a huge fan of capitalism and a huge fan of entrepreneurship and changing the world with technology and with entrepreneurship. Capitalism is awesome. To me, capitalism is my religion.

- Jason Calacanis

And innovation and entrepreneurship is the opportunity and best opportunity we have to grow the economy.

- Jerry Moran

From the start, ProFounder was created to make sure anyone could be empowered to pursue their dreams through entrepreneurship.

- Jessica Jackley

Entrepreneurship is, in large part, about building something from nothing, which means creating a cause.

- Joe Lonsdale

One of the myths you see in entrepreneurship is that people have this dream one night, wake up the next morning, and start building it. It's actually much more of an iterative process.

- John Collison

For America's economic future to remain prosperous, we must encourage pro-growth policies so that we continue to be the leader in innovation and entrepreneurship.

- John Ensign

You know where entrepreneurship in my opinion has to go? Into the inner city.

- John Kasich

I guess my view is I believe less governance is best governance and that government should not do what the free enterprise and private enterprise and indidividual entrepreneurship and the states can do.

- John McCain

I did parallel entrepreneurship, which was very hard to do. It was hard to keep your head straight and know which ideas were with which company.

- Jonah Peretti

Ensuring a better future for all South Africans will require increased access to higher education, a stronger and fairer labour market, deeper participation in regional markets, and a regulatory framework that fosters entrepreneurship and allows small businesses to thrive.

- Jose Angel Gurria

Someone once described entrepreneurship to me as a series of happy accidents.

- Kevin Systrom

On paper, Emmanuel Macron should be a candidate tailor-made for young voters. He himself is young. He pushes for more entrepreneurship, modernization, and a loosening of regulations that prevent young workers from working as they please when they please.

- Kristen Soltis Anderson

As a profession, entrepreneurship breeds anything but balance. The highs can be stratospheric, and the lows can be crushing.

- Lewis Howes

A country that cannot support entrepreneurship has no hope.

- Lu Guanqiu

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

- Marco Rubio

Walmart is an amazing story of entrepreneurship and, as one of the world's most powerful brands, touches millions of lives every day.

- Marissa Mayer

I love entrepreneurship because that's what makes this country grow, and if I can help companies grow, I am creating jobs; I am setting foundations for future generations. It sends the message that the American Dream is alive and well.

- Mark Cuban

I think of entrepreneurship as a way of creating value.

- Martine Syms

I have worked on open Internet, speech, and entrepreneurship issues for years.

- Marvin Ammori

Entrepreneurship requires an unvanquished spirit of curiosity, an openness to learning, a letting go of OldCo so you're free to create NewCo.

- Michael E. Gerber

I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.

- Nancy Lublin

Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.

- Nancy Lublin

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

- Natalie Clifford Barney

We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.

- Naveen Jain

My children have been learning lessons about entrepreneurship since they were in kindergarten, and these lessons are paying off: even though they are only 22, 18, and 15, they have already collectively launched three nonprofit organizations and several new businesses.

- Naveen Jain

Teaching children about entrepreneurship is much like imparting any other skill or piece of knowledge. You will provide them with ways to experience how entrepreneurship works, and you guide them toward the subjects or areas they seem to show an interest in.

- Naveen Jain

Unfettered, creative, and enthusiastic entrepreneurship is one of the hallmarks of American life, and it has allowed us to attract the best and brightest to this country.

- Naveen Jain

If you are passionate about entrepreneurship like I am, you too can instill this passion in your children.

- Naveen Jain

I've given a lot of talks over the years on the subject of entrepreneurship. The first thing I find I have to do is to dispel the persistent myth that entrepreneurial success is all about innovative thinking and breakthrough ideas.

- Naveen Jain

I don't consider my competition to be companies but entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is the freedom to take your own decisions, and that's what we offer.

- Naveen Tewari

My father's own view was more than entrepreneurship; it was really a passion to build an institution in India.

- Nita Ambani

We must create economic opportunity, build a culture of entrepreneurship, get people to take responsibility for improving their lives, rather than putting them in a position where they sit back in their poverty and blame others for it.

- Paul Kagame

We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility.

- Paul Ryan

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

- Peter Drucker

I have to tell you that the innovation and the technology and the entrepreneurship of the world still lies in the United States of America.

- Phil Gramm

I think 'Settlers of Catan' is such a well-designed board game - it's the board game of entrepreneurship - that I made a knockoff called 'Startups of Silicon Valley.' It's literally - it's the same rules but just a different skin set to it.

- Reid Hoffman

I'm glad I didn't know how much patience entrepreneurship required. It took some time to turn that into a strength of mine, so that would've presented an obstacle when I was younger.

- Reshma Saujani

In his musicals with Garland, Rooney was the sparkplug for prodigious entrepreneurship - that era's predecessor of the garage band, but with Gershwin tunes and an all-star cast.

- Richard Corliss

What is great about entrepreneurship is that entrepreneurs create the tangible from the intangible.

- Robert Herjavec

By working to ensure we live in a society that prioritizes public safety, education, and innovation, entrepreneurship can thrive and create a better world for all of us to live in.

- Ron Conway

The reason that Google was such a success is because they were the first ones to take advantage of the self-organizing properties of the web. It's in ecological sustainability. It's in the developmental power of entrepreneurship, the ethical power of democracy.

- Ron Eglash

Immigration is the ultimate entrepreneurship.

- Sam Yagan

To have a stable economy, to have a stable democracy, and to have a modern government is not enough. We have to build new pillars of development. Education, science and technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, and more equality.

- Sebastian Pinera

My daughter has no interest in succeeding me in the business. She is going towards social entrepreneurship, an area she is interested in.

- Shiv Nadar

A lot of entrepreneurship is seeing the future in a way that no one else sees it. Then, it becomes about execution and doing what it takes to succeed.

- Stacy Brown-Philpot

The art of entrepreneurship and the science of Customer Development is not just getting out of the building and listening to prospective customers. It's understanding who to listen to and why.

- Steve Blank

Given the success rate, if you want to get wealthy, entrepreneurship is a horrible way of doing it. There are significantly easier ways of doing it.

- Tobias Lutke

Entrepreneurship is about tackling big problems - often non-obvious problems - that will have a meaningful impact on the world, and this usually involves solving these problems in counterintuitive ways.

- Trip Adler

I am a great believer in Indian entrepreneurship. There is a whole set of people doing so many exciting things.

- Uday Kotak

This may sound trite, but I believe it to be true: Entrepreneurship is the fabric of what America is all about.

- Vivek Ramaswamy

The truth is that entrepreneurship is more like a roller coaster ride than a cruise.

- Vivek Wadhwa