Quotes about "Innovation & Entrepreneurship"

What was a profitable business in one era can become a public utility and a recognized public good in the next. ”

Of course, women are free to start any kind of company they want. But women sometimes identify different problems than men do and start different sorts of companies as a result. ”

I probably looked pretty conventionally successful as a 24-year-old getting paid $125,000 a year, plus bonus, wearing suits, and living in a Manhattan apartment. But I hated my job, I didn't admire the people I was working with, and I felt that I was becoming a smaller, less imaginative, less risk-taking, less likable version of myself. ”

In 2011, I started a nonprofit organization, Venture for America, to help bring talented young entrepreneurs to create thousands of jobs in Detroit, Cleveland, St. Louis, Birmingham, Baltimore and other cities around the country. ”

If you're a set of guys looking to start a company, think about women you could team up with - they will see things differently and solve problems you didn't even realize you had. ”

Starting a company is rough. It's even harder when you're young - I know this firsthand, because my first company flopped when I was 25. ”

I spent five years running Manhattan GMAT helping young people get into business school. ”

We're conditioned to let businesses fail, regardless of how much we like them. We believe that if the market doesn't want that bookstore to exist, then it shouldn't exist. ”

I remember looking up to most any venture capitalist as someone who could make my little company happen with a single million-dollar check. ”

One reason why entrepreneurs are admired is that they often take on a degree of risk in launching a new business. ”