The first thing you need in order to make a business viable is to preserve a cash flow. I made sure I didn't have any financial backing or support.

I would love to one day have my own line of clothes.

Swishahouse, it started off as just a crew making mixtapes and that's when I got down with it back in like 1998. It wasn't a record label at first. It was all just for promotion, for fun, and we just...

For most Indians in America, wealth is not inherited. Neither do we make it as heads of large hedge funds and private equity funds. For us to make it to the top, we have to use our knowhow to create...

The advantage of consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, with a larger number of customers, which over time become more predictable. The advantage of enterprise companies is they...

The point of launching a maternity line, for me, was to do something different.

Even as a college professor at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford, I saw myself as an entrepreneur, and I went out, took risks, and tried to invent new things, such as participating in the DARPA Grand...

About 10 million people start a business each year, and about one out of two will make it. The average entrepreneur is often on his or her third startup.

It helps to have founded and run a company if you're going to help somebody run a company who is a founder.

When you buy a company that's been on its butt you raise a lot of money, you instantly put new management in place, but that's the end of the glory for three to five years, grinding it out one day...

Startups are often best at solving the personal problems of their founders. The more diverse the founders, the more types of problems can be solved - and the more people who will be positively...

When we started Airbnb, I had no idea about the people we would meet or the friendships I would make.

I've loved the RuPaul model of drag, where you're an amazing drag queen, you're a smart and savvy business person, and you use those together to keep drag at the forefront of what people are talking...

Here's an idea: Spend two or three hours a day at least five days a week in front of a bookstore wearing a sandwich board with your book cover on it while you chase and chat with anyone you can corral...

Behind Chipotle is not a corporation; behind Chipotle is a man that is one of the great cooks, that created a great concept.

Magic has lived an extraordinary life as a champion athlete, passionate activist, and highly successful entrepreneur. The impact of Magic's life on the game of basketball and beyond is undeniable.

I am a businessman.

So many of my rookie mistakes could have been avoided by first-hand exposure to other, more experienced technology entrepreneurs.

Work-life balance for founders doesn't look like work-life balance for everyone else. Starting a company isn't a nine-to-six job - or a nine-to-nine job, or a nine-to-midnight job.

Entrepreneurs can't forecast accurately, because they are trying something fundamentally new. So they will often be laughably behind plan - and on the brink of success.

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty...

Mayweather Promotions - we are the past, the present, and the future of sports and entertainment, and everybody knows Mayweather's pay is better.

What I tell founders is not to sweat the business model too much at first. The most important task at first is to build something people want. If you don't do that, it won't matter how clever your...

Successful entrepreneurs figure out when to drive their ideas forward & when to listen to constructive criticism.

Entrepreneur, make today count but don't let the day count you.

The moment you inject information, education, and an entrepreneurial spark in a community, it gets empowered enough to inspire, build, and uplift itself.

Entrepreneur, become so disciplined that even your distractions become focused.

Get out of failure - o - phobia to enjoy success - o - mania.

Business is ideas only not Rupees or Dollars

Running a business is a serious thing.