99 Inspirational Quotes for Entrepreneurs

Are you an Entrepreneur? If so I’ve mined the internet for famous quotes on Entrepreneurship to inspire and motivate you. I’m sharing 99 of them which I liked the most. Please feel free to leave your valuable comments below and let me know what do you feel about the same!

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Warren Buffett Quotes On Investing

I was searching the entire web for some famous quotes said by the legendary investor Warren Buffett. I don’t know how many I’ve read. But I would like to share with you 79 of them which I find interesting and which do makes sense. If you are an investor then it’s a must read! And feel free to comment below if I’d missed something! Happy Investing!

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Thinking about starting a business? Make sure you’re cut out for it first.

In this bleak economy, lots of people are contemplating striking out on their own — whether they’re frustrated job seekers or people who are already employed but getting antsy about their company’s prospects.

For some people, entrepreneurship is the best option around, a way to build wealth and do something you love without answering to somebody else. But it’s also a huge financial gamble — and some people, unfortunately, will discover too late that it’s not the right fit for them.

Building a successful business can take years filled with setbacks, long hours and little reward. Certain personalities thrive on the challenge and embrace the sacrifices. But it can be a hard switch for someone who has spent years sitting in a cubicle with a steady paycheck.

So, how can you figure out whether you’re suited for self-employment? We spoke with entrepreneurship researchers, academics and psychologists to come up with a list of questions you should ask yourself before making a big leap. Entrepreneurs, of course, come from all sorts of backgrounds, with all sorts of personalities. But our experts agreed that certain attributes improve the odds people will be successful and happy about their decision.

Keep in mind that any self-analysis is only as useful as the truthfulness of the answers — and most people aren’t exactly the best judges of their own character. So, you might enlist a friend’s help.

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You’ve probably heard this before and it’s true, especially when you’re trying to run your own business. Before you start liquidating all your assets to run your business, though, keep in mind that this statement is about the day-to-day movement of cash through your business, not the grand total of how much you can get your hands on. It refers to your client’s ability to pay you on time and how this relates to your ability to pay the bills. It’s not unusual to hear ulcer-ridden ex-entrepreneurs return to the corporate world filled with dire warnings for anyone who might try to start their own business. This is what they’re talking about — the monster that’s always hiding under the bed, the ever-juggling jester wearing a pained smile beneath his sweaty brow, the most stressful thing you will ever deal with as a business owner — cash flow.

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Venture Capitalists are very protective of their time. Their first step is to listen to a concise summary of your business proposition delivered in the notorious elevator pitch. Articulate a concise and compelling summary that would motivate the VC to listen to your story. Deliver it in 3 sentences within 60 seconds.

If a venture firm and all goes well, they will provide you funding for growth in return for an equity share in the business, often a controlling share. At one point, they will ask you for a business plan.

Venture investors do not want to see the same plan that you might write as an operating guide to building the business.. Venture investors are very straightforward in what they want to learn from a business plan:

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As you probably know almost all global markets (especially the emerging markets) are correcting and all of them have corrected sharply. It doesn’t matter whether you are from India or China or USA, the recent fall in stocks would have affected you.

I’m sure that you must be in a panic situation now even I’m in a panic situation. So that made me to write this blog post. I started investing in Stock Market back in 2005. But I didn’t make any significant amount of returns. In fact I have booked losses several times in range of 5 to 20% and then quit the stock market for some time. But I decided to enter stocks again back in January and started building a portfolio. I started with Mutual Funds too but when the markets fell sharply. I asked myself "Why should I invest in Mutual Funds when the Stock Market is attractive?" that made me to invest directly in stocks. And I began to buy quality stocks on every dip. The result: the stock market crash never ended it and it’s falling day by day. And I’m sitting at a loss of 10%.

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A nicely designed and pretty appealing pink color website called WhateverLife.com is owned by 17 year old girl “Ashley Qualls”. It is a site that offers MySpace layouts, graphics, and most impressive magazine for teens making million-dollar business. With over 60 million page views and 7 million monthly visitors, she makes over 70 thousand dollars a month with advertising affiliate programs such as Google’s AdSense. The most impressive part of Ashley’s Million-Dollar Business is the only significant source of revenue so far is advertising on Web.

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