entrepreneur

“A lot of great people who maybe didn't have the risk appetite for entrepreneurship, maybe aren't as insane as you and I are when we do it kind of addictively, are going to come out and build wonderful organizations that we'll be talking about in five or 10 yea…”

“The idea that VCs know their industries better than the entrepreneurs is almost always ludicrous.”

“As an entrepreneur, you should make a non-obvious bet to everybody else. That's obvious to you. That will become obvious over time.”

“Almost always the competitors have a little impact on your progress as an entrepreneur, right? It's usually distraction, paying attention to them.”

“Within a team, the characteristics that I think make people really successful as entrepreneurs, all three things that you have in spades, and why you were probably successful despite having no experience in college, it's humility, organizational skills, and wo…”

“How you finance your company is a big determinant of how much money the entrepreneur actually makes. Now that may not be the definition of success. It might be how big the company is, but a lot of entrepreneurs are out there trying to raise venture capital whe…”

“We believe entrepreneurs are the people who drive society forward more in many cases, more, more so many cases than nonprofits and government organizations.”

“If you haven't acquired anything, just buy something for a five K, go through an LOI, go through the asset purchase. Go through due diligence and that alone will help you when you get to, you know, larger acquisition.”

“As an entrepreneur, sometimes thinking in that framework of, you know, rapidly build products, then one will take off, and that's one that you shift your full focus to, or you just focus on all of them, if they're all working.”

“A lot of entrepreneurs think taking their business to market, they want to show it as perfect, but it's actually the opposite. You want to show with bumps, bruises, the good parts, bad parts, because the bad parts can also be good parts.”

“When you come up with a sizable win, that's meaningful to you. I think you do as an entrepreneur have like an elevated level of confidence. And so you might venture out into, A type of business that maybe isn't your strong suit, or it's beyond what your skill …”

“So I think the lesson is, you know, the sooner you start you know, because I always say the people who know the most about winning know the most about losing. Start early. So the, So if you lose or make mistakes, which all entrepreneurs do, you know, it's earl…”

“I mean, the jobs are going to come down. But then it'll propel the opportunities for entrepreneurs.”