Quotes About Entrepreneurship

After working with my father for two years, we started Candie's, a line of imported shoes from Italy. Then in 1982 I set out to start my own business.

Of course Jack Ma was the guy who impressed me.

Doing business in Jamaica is not easy, but it is rewarding.

I started Softbank in 1981, a year and a half after I came back from the United States, after graduating from Berkeley. I wanted to start my own company when I came back to Japan.

I was the first person to export Teflon-coated ironing board covers to Japan.

I most definitely respect Jay Z hustle and everything he built. He's a businessman first and I think he respects my hustle.

You think Jay-Z is going broke? LeBron is going broke? These guys have figured it out. They came from poor backgrounds, broken homes, and they figured out how to be businessmen. They become new aspirations.

Yes, I'm really inspired by people like Jay-Z and 50-Cent to develop more business savvy.

I know this: Jerry Jones is unique, he's as cool as James Bond and he has a command of his business. He can step into any arena and succeed.

We look up to Jessica Alba. I loved that something bothered her, and she created products around it and built an empire around it.

My mother, when I told her I was going into the jewelry business said, 'Kenneth, don't tell anyone.'

I've never had a time where I didn't want to do my jewelry anymore. Once I started it, and once I realized I was really doing something I loved, I gave it my heart. When we first started the company, I did it all myself in our living room.

It's so difficult to make the money we produce at Jimmy John's.

God has blessed me with something. One day, I do see myself being like Jimmy Iovine. I'm trying to build an empire.

Bill Hewlett and I were brought up in the Depression. We weren't interested in the idea of making any money. Our idea was if you couldn't find a job, you'd make one for yourself.

One of the greatest things that Apple and Jobs were very good at doing was daring to do the very different thing. It's what I did with my cookbook, frankly.

When 'Johnny Bravo' was going to end, I thought, 'I really need to sell something. I need a job.' So, I sat down and just sketched this little boy with a fairy godmother. I was going to do a boy version of 'Cinderella.'

'Founder' is a state of mind, not a job description, and if done right, even CEOs who join after day 1 can become founders.

If you have the opportunity to go be an early employee at a company that's just going crazy, and you believe it's the next Facebook or Google, you should go join that company.

When we were small, the idea of VMware wasn't well defined, and convincing people to join was difficult. Each person we hired at that time was a big deal.

I was very clear that I'd join my family business and become a jewellery designer.

My dad is into business and quite established. But I decided to pursue acting. Had I joined him I would've become the CEO of the company and things would've been easier for me.

If you look at my history, my history is that of forming bands rather than joining them.

Joining the family business was always Plan B or Plan C.