Entrepreneur Skills Quotes

Entrepreneurship is “risky” mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.

Fluid intelligence is not a Big Five personality trait: It's a measurement of one's ability to rapidly learn and apply a rule set. As an entrepreneur, you're rapidly dealing with different issues, and your ability to switch from one issue to another is very important.

Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.

In order to succeed in business a man does not need a degree from a school of business administration. These schools train the subalterns for routine jobs. They certainly do not train entrepreneurs.

I wish I'd known more about how to build a startup when I was younger.

A smart entrepreneur knows they cannot run a business on their own. They know that business is a team sport.

The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.

Selling is the most important skill as an entrepreneur. I'm not talking so much about selling a product so much as selling yourself, team, and deals.

In every business I had ever started, even ones that had totally failed, I had kept good relations with the investors.

Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.

It is important for young entrepreneurs to be adequately self-aware to know what they do not know.

As a serial investor who has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for startups, I know that the business plans coming out of incubators tend to be vetted and more thoroughly validated. The incubator's input into your business plan will make you look far more polished and experienced - even if you have never run a business before.

I know all three facets of the business: the development side, the operations side, and I know how to borrow the money and how to put the deal together. If it was easy, everybody would do it.

If you look at the ecosystem, entrepreneurs as a class have gotten younger, younger, and younger. They also as a class have become less and less and less experienced. The good part about that is that you're unlocking this ability to start a company to so many more people. That's an amazing positive. The negative is they're coming to that job with dramatically less experience than they've ever had. So there needs to be someone around the table that can then help them.

A business woman needs a successful mix of design and practicality.

Small business owners and entrepreneurs worthy of the title need to build systems that replace themselves.