Eric Ries Quotes

I had been an independent entrepreneur from the beginning, and I felt I could do it myself. I didn't want to get a job.

Small business is the backbone of America.

If you immediately take a job somewhere, you've given up on the dream of being an entrepreneur and creating jobs for people and making new technologies and making new paths.

If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there'd be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.

I can't begrudge anyone who opts to get a job instead of creating one for themselves.

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

When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.

I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.

I had no intention of being a film producer, and I knew I wasn't passionate about engineering. I was always set on having my own business, controlling my own destiny.

You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck - and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee - or you can go out and become an entrepreneur.

My father was a chef but hadn't owned his own business. I didn't like that. In my heart of hearts, I knew I wanted to be in business.

I have wanted to run my own business since my time at Clitheroe grammar school. I remember thinking if I could get a penny from everyone in Britain, I would earn £208,000 a year.

Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.

I have always been very entrepreneurial minded. Oftentimes, while I was sitting in class listening to my professor ramble on, I would think to myself: 'I could be out there making money right now.'

I thought, if I went into business I'd be able to control my own destiny.

Small business in America is booming. The job creator in America, small business, is absolutely moving ahead.

In the States, entrepreneurs inspire a lot of people and are respected for creating jobs. That makes people dream and feel happy for their country.

In America, small business is a big deal.

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

Nobody forces you to work at Wal-Mart. Start your own business! Sell something to Wal-Mart!

'Entrepreneur' is a long, fancy French word, but it didn't seem like something you aspire to. It seemed normal, because whatever your parents do seems normal.

For me, I've always been an entrepreneur.

We need to realise that entrepreneurship is not necessarily increasing employment.

I think I probably had to start a company, because I don't think I can work for other people.

We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.