Quotes About Entrepreneurship

Starting a successful company is one of the hardest things anyone does.

Acquiring customers at the start is one of the hardest things you'll ever experiences as an entrepreneur.

If all we wanted to do was to make money on PC hardware, that wouldn't be a good business model.

In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.

I was at Harvard when Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, and I begged him not to do it.

Blueprints are for Harvard MBAs. I dropped out of college.

Within the first year of launching my company, Spanx, I decided to go over to England and cold-call Harrods, Harvey Nichols, and Selfridges the same way I had cold-called Neiman Marcus, Saks, Nordstrom, and Bloomingdale's here in the United States.

I'm not somebody who is going to build something for a few years, sell it, and then go off and just have fun.

I have lots of business outside of the Octagon, and I'm looking to have fun.

I put headlights in Ford vans. I still drive a Ford.

It's safe to say headphones is a good business.

I always wanted to have a headphone line but I feel like I'm going to do more than just headphones eventually, but we want to wake the world up right now with this.

We still have to keep betting on markets like America that are full of opportunities to grow, even if we have to work our heads off to do it.

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

I discovered early in my career as an entrepreneur that I'm not good at many things, and I said 'I need help.'

If you like Five Guys burgers, and you're in California, I was one of the people who helped bring it here.

I've helped create over 400 jobs in the worst economy of my lifetime. That's cool.

Every decision I make is, 'How is this helping me become a billionaire?'

With what Enrou was doing with helping women and taking products from local marketplaces, we thought it was really great.

I definitely aspire to be someone like Tyra Banks, who's created an empire for herself.

What I'd tell any kid in high school is, 'Take business classes.' I don't care what else you're gonna do; if you're gonna do art or anything, take business classes. You can say, 'Well, I don't want to get commercial,' but if you do anything to make any money, you're doing something commercial.

I started my business with my best friend from high school.

I started Oyo right out of my high school, with limited resources.

I enjoyed high school and college, and I think I learned a lot, but that was not really my focus. My focus was on trying to figure out what businesses to start.