The median startup is a business that's capitalized with about $25,000. The financing of that business comes from the entrepreneur's savings. The business is a retail or personal service business, a hair salon or a clothing store, that kind of thing.

An entrepreneur without funding is a musician without an instrument.

Business plans are a great section in the science fiction genre. They are made for the kind of people who like sausages and don’t know how they are made.

To succeed, your "why you do it" must be strong enough to get you out of bed early in the morning.

An entrepreneur is someone who will jump off a cliff and assemble an airplane on the way down.

Starting a business is risky. Half of all new businesses fail to experience a fifth anniversary. And everyone knows that you could lose all the money you've invested in your new company and then some. Those are the obvious risks of trying to be an entrepreneur.