Quotes About Entrepreneurship

When I was 25, I had risked everything to launch Justin Bieber and was a couple months away from losing everything.

Hands down, Rick Ross is a genius. Hands down, Diddy is a genius. Hands down, Kanye is a genius. All of them.

When we first showed the Karma in January 2008, we had barely started the company.

People are starting companies at young ages. They fail fast, learn a lot, and keep going.

I would tell all women entrepreneurs to stay focussed and positive. One just needs to keep moving without looking back.

It's hard not to be confident when you put in business the biggest black male in comedy, Kevin Hart. I know I took him off a stage and put him in his first four movies. I know I did that.

I almost got kicked out of eighth grade for selling 'Playboy.'

Kickstarter is perfect for us. It wasn't something we heard about and just got to it. We did our research, met with the people at Kickstarter - they are brilliant, and they're excited to work with us.

What Kim Kardashian has done with her family and brand is brilliant!

I'm the king of debt.

You have to realize that the customer really is king. People who go into more established businesses probably have to be careful not to be casual about that. When you have a brand-new business, and nobody knows who you are, you know you have to work really hard for your customers.

If you go around the kitchen and ask my employees what they want to be doing in three to five years, most of them, if they're being honest, will tell you that they don't want to be working for me. They want to have their own place. And I think that's great.

I love lifestyle stuff, I love housewares. I'm really a homebody, honestly. Anything to do with my kitchen, or my house, I'm all about it. I'm working on a sauce line, so that's kind of exciting. I'm a saucier.

If I had stuck to my knitting, I would have had a wonderful career having a delicatessen in Blacktown.

The biggest challenge being an entrepreneur is knowing what you are good at and what you need to build on.

The basketball great Kobe Bryant started his own venture-capital firm. LeBron James has rebranded himself as not just an athlete but also an investor and entrepreneur.

That is a reward that humbles me: the fact that immigrants coming to America, much like I did, can come into a Forever 21 and know that all of this was started by a simple Korean immigrant with a dream.

What I've achieved with Boux Avenue is what I always wanted to achieve with La Senza.

How do you get things out of your head, out of your lab, and into the world? If you're not part of the economic community, there's a chance... you'll fall behind.

You don't need to depend on a label, because you're making that money on your own.

At first, I wanted to start my own label, but it was such a full-time job that it became too much.

It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists... I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted to.

What I learned from the Beastie Boys was to be independent. They set up their own world separate from the label. They built their own studio.

I feel like it's important for me to expand, to create my own label. With a label, I can just give someone the opportunity that I was given, you know? That's what it's all about, just helping.