Entrepreneurship Quotes

When forming a new business with a new business partner, I know it may be difficult to think about a buy-sell agreement or a business dissolution agreement when you are just starting out, but it is financially intelligent to think of your exit before you enter into the agreement. [2008] - Robert T. Kiyosaki

In the Information Age, information alone can make you very rich. You don't need tangible resources like land, gold, or oil. Likewise, poor or mistaken information is a liability. Poor information creates poor people. Today, information and a very inexpensive computer can transport you from poor to super-rich while you're sitting at home. All it takes is the right information. [2008] - Robert T. Kiyosaki

I recommend that anyone who wants to be an entrepreneur join a network marketing company for some of the best real-world, street-smart business training. I know a number of people who spent five years with a network marketing business before finally breaking through their doubts and fears. Once they did that, the money poured in. For people who want to be entrepreneurs, taking a job with a small company can also be a great learning environment. [2008] - Robert T. Kiyosaki

Entrepreneurs have two characteristics...ignorance and courage. [2008] - Robert T. Kiyosaki

There are many different types of home-based service businesses that lend themselves to operating out of a condo. For example: consulting, counseling, computer-based business, telephone sales, tutoring, teaching small groups, research, travel agent, etc. In other words, you would not have people coming to your home in great numbers, if at all. [2006] - Douglas Gray

If you find something difficult to do, there's a company you can build to help solve that problem. If there's an industry, hobby, or community that you know well, you should examine the inconveniences facing that community or its customers that hinder its growth. Each of those obstacles could be a business opportunity waiting to be solved. [2006] - Scott Fox

Creating Product Millionaire businesses is easiest if your product (1) meets a need that already exists in the marketplace, and (2) is easily explained. It's best if the product fits easily on store shelves and in shipping boxes, so it's easy for retailers to stock the product and ship it to buyers (Even better is if you can make your products deliverable simply by downloading them from the Internet.) [2006] - Scott Fox

The key to finding the right new business for you is to combine your skills, interests, and hobbies to target the right group of customers with in-demand products/services that help those customers solve their problems in a cost-effective manner. [2006] - Scott Fox

Most millionaire opportunities grow out of personal experience and take a lot of personal enthusiasm to nurture and harvest. [2006] - Scott Fox

The key to most successful businesses is that they do their chosen activity better than their competition. A "competitive advantage" is a unique connection, resource, idea, timing, or other factor that means you can produce or deliver your product or service faster or cheaper or better or more profitably than the other guys. If you have an area of expertise, connections, or even just enthusiasm, it may yield a competitive advantage for you. [2006] - Scott Fox

Spending the least money, spending the least time, and making the least number of long-term commitments as possible to get the business launched. [2006] - Scott Fox

People go into business for themselves thinking they'll have more time for themselves. I found out the hard way that the opposite is usually true. You end up working a lot harder a lot more hours for yourself, trying to get your business up and profitable. You think, going in, that this is your key to freedom, and it ends up being your key to killing yourself. You become a slave to it. [2005] - Adam Ginsberg

It's not really necessary to like what you are selling. The key is to sell what people are willing to buy. [2005] - Adam Ginsberg

A traditional model for starting a business looks something like this: 1. You will end your first year of operations in debt. 2. In the second year, you will perhaps break even. 3. If you are lucky, you will finally turn a profit your third year in business. [2005] - Adam Ginsberg

One great idea is to buy out of season and sell in season. [2005] - Adam Ginsberg

There are three parts to putting a business deal together. One is finding the right people. Two is finding the right opportunity. And three is finding the money. The most important job of an entrepreneur is go grab one piece and then begin to put the other two pieces together. [2005] - Robert T. Kiyosaki

Employees are often trained to be specialists. Entrepreneurs need to be generalists. [2005] - Robert T. Kiyosaki

The most important job of an entrepreneur is to design the business before there is a business. [2005] - Robert T. Kiyosaki

We always recommend keeping your daytime job while starting a part-time business. [2005] - Robert T. Kiyosaki

You simply have to find a way to leverage your expertise and creativity--create systems that let others (your employees or coventurers) apply your expertise and creativity. [2005] - Robert T. Kiyosaki