Entrepreneur Struggle Quotes

I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral.

Starting a business is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute. In mid air, the entrepreneur begins building a parachute and hopes it opens before hitting the ground.

I tell founders all the time, 99.9 percent chance of failure.

The average for entrepreneurs is 3.8 failures before they finally make it in business.

There's no way I know, to get through the pain of a startup without belief that the mission really matters.

And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them.

As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.

People in private equity complain that they have so much capital and so few places to invest. But you have lots of entrepreneurs trying to raise money at the low end and find that they can't get funding because of this mismatch. I think that there is an opportunity there.