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Dame Anita Roddick (1942–2007), British entrepreneur and founder of The Body Shop
Source: Body and Soul (cowritten with Russell Miller, 1991) -
"You can never be an entrepreneur if you're afraid to lose money. It's like being a pilot who is afraid of bad weather."Peter de Savary (1944–), British entrepreneur
Source: Quoted in The Adventure Capitalists (Jeff Grout and Lynne Curry, 1998) -
"If you want to understand entrepreneurs, you have to study the psychology of the juvenile delinquent. They don’t have the same anxiety triggers that we have."Abraham Zaleznik (1924–), US psychologist
Source: US News & World Report (October 1992) -
"Money isn’t what motivates entrepreneurs; it is acknowledgement—a craving for your ideas to be acknowledged,"Reuben Singh (1976–), British entrepreneur and author
Source: Management Today (September 1999) -
Stan Shih (1945–), Taiwanese cofounder and former CEO of the Acer Group
Referring to a Taiwanese proverb and the preference of entrepreneurs for running their own small business.
Source: Quoted in Giant Killers (Geoffrey James, 1996) -
"Where would the Rockefellers be today if old John D. had gone on selling short-weight kerosene … to widows and orphans instead of wisely deciding to mulct the whole country."S. J. Perelman (1904–1979), US humorist
Source: Letter (October 25, 1976) -
Terri Bowersock (1956–), US furniture company entrepreneur
Source: Phoenix Business Journal (1999) -
"It sounds boring, but anything is easy to start—starting a novel, starting a business … it's keeping the thing going that is difficult."Prue Leith (1940–), British cookbook writer and business executive
Source: Quoted in The Adventure Capitalists (Jeff Grout and Lynne Curry, 1998) -
James Edward, Lord Hanson (1922–2004), British business executive and entrepreneur
Source: Web site (2000) -
"Around Britain, thousands of young people are working from bedrooms, workshops and run-down offices, hoping that they will come up with the next Hotmail or Netscape."Charles Leadbeater, British government adviser, journalist, and author
Source: Quoted in the Independent (London) (1999) -
"There are very few self-made millionaires, if any, who have not taken risks which would make the rest of us unable to sleep at night, or keep our food down."Dominic Lawson (1956–), British journalist
Source: Independent (London) (December 16, 2008)


