Michael Dell Quotes

I've often thought of successful entrepreneurs as individuals who have just the right expertise - at just the right moment - to solve the emerging problems of their time.

Entrepreneurs, by their nature, see not only problems but solutions and opportunities.

Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.

Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Know your business and industry better than anyone else in the world. Love what you do or don't do it.

I know this business better than most people, and I'm extremely passionate about it.

As an entrepreneur, you never stop learning.

I have a good eye for great projects, talent, and entrepreneurs.

Real entrepreneurs have what I call the three Ps (and, trust me, none of them stands for 'permission'). Real entrepreneurs have a 'passion' for what they're doing, a 'problem' that needs to be solved, and a 'purpose' that drives them forward.

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

I am thoroughly enjoying spending the majority of my time with entrepreneurs. I find that their enthusiasm, dedication, willingness to take huge risks and desire to make a dramatic impact quite inspiring.

A subset of CEOs is that of entrepreneurs. And the classical definition of an entrepreneur is an individual who pursues opportunity without regard to the resources currently controlled. That sounds like a very different person than one might expect an analytical investment manager to be.

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

Most people who go into business for themselves and, therefore, believe they are entrepreneurs, are doomed to struggle because they don't have a true Entrepreneurial Perspective. They have a Technician's Perspective.

I think entrepreneurship is combining a passion with the tenacity to problem-solve and the fearlessness to fail.

Other than playing the game I love, my passion is investing in innovative companies and helping the entrepreneurs behind them succeed.

Business is my passion.

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

Entrepreneurship is all about deferred gratification.

As an entrepreneur, if you're the originator, you need to be faster than ever.

I think Coran Capshaw is such a brilliant entrepreneur and he always thinks about new stuff; the biggest stuff you can imagine. I know he's working on a lot of things for me at the moment, and I think it will definitely help my career to go to the next level.

People ask, 'Are entrepreneurs born, or are they made?' I think it's a combination of both.

Today as an entrepreneur you have more options.

Entrepreneurs don't believe the future is predictable - but they do believe that they can create the future themselves.

As I've conducted my interviews with crowdsourcing entrepreneurs and experts, it's constantly hit me that your ability to do something big and bold is really a function of the size and quality of your crowd.

Entrepreneurs must be practical experts. They needn't set out to be subject matter experts in what they do; they must set out to solve a problem or pursue some cause or purpose greater than themselves.