Jessica Jackley Quotes

There has never been a better time in the history of time than right now to start a business.

Most new jobs won't come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We've got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality.

It's really important that we have an ecosystem where small innovative entrepreneurs can develop new products and access consumers and have a chance to succeed.

Before I started WeWork, I owned a baby clothing company based in Dumbo, Brooklyn.

We need to open up private sector markets. We need to empower small business people, working Georgians, and entrepreneurs.

Plenty of entrepreneurs can start a company. What is more rare is to evolve it and to scale with it over time.

I meet a lot of people with my BBC Breakfast job who have great businesses.

I'll be a mentor to those who want to create a business, product or service and aren't exactly sure how to do that. To me, it's a true sign of success if I can help someone have a better time of it.

All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.

So always keep momentum, it's this prime directive for managing a startup.

Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.

Starting a business is a huge amount of hard work... You had better enjoy it.

Entrepreneurs: The only people who work 80 hour weeks to avoid working 40 hour weeks.

It's not government that creates jobs; it's small business. Our job is to make sure they have the access to capital, the access to contracting opportunities, and the help, advice and mentoring that they need to go out and be successful.

I've helped some of my classmates on how to strategize to get to the next level of their businesses. And it's interesting, because here I am sitting there from the entertainment industry and the fashion industry, and I'm giving a billionaire that has a business that's been in his family for 300 years - I'm giving him advice about strategy!

When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?

Small businesses are the number one job creators in America. Therefore, it is important that the federal government creates an environment that helps them succeed, not one that sets them up to fail.

One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

You can never be satisfied as an entrepreneur, and the basis of any successful, growing business is new clients.

More entrepreneurs are looking to come back to start businesses, and that is where SBA is perfectly positioned to be helping more people to realize their dreams.

An entrepreneur, whether man or woman, has to be willing to take help, whether financial or technical, to grow his or her business.

I still want an entrepreneurial culture to exist forever.

As a small-business man myself, I believe strongly that improving the health of small businesses is the key to improving the economy, growing the middle class, and creating innovative products and services.

I started with shoes, and with hard work and discipline, the business prospered.

Simply put, our nation's economy will only go as far as our small businesses will take it.