Quotes About Entrepreneurship

There's no reason we shouldn't have 15 or 20 Johnny Rockets in Dubai.

There would really be no reason to get up in the morning if Founders Fund was not willing to invest in companies that were doing important things, great businesses that very few people believe in.

When there is no work, I create my own.

The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'

Hip hop is a multi-billion dollar business, and it was built off an opportunity that nobody else saw because they didn't understand the culture.

But I usually read non-fiction; I love Richard Branson books.

It's a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur's metric for success. It's not, and nor should it be.

My parents started Party Pieces the same year I was born, so I have grown up with their entrepreneurial way of thinking, which, to me, became the norm.

My granddad founded a manufacturing company in Northern England - a place called Bury - that manufactured denim, and one of the brands they created denim for was Disney.

My first words were always about food - I grew up in northern California, and when I was 10 years old, I had my own pretzel cart business.

I am not interested in the technology business, at least not in getting hands-on.

The customer doing something innovative is not interested in the size of your company but in whether you understand what he does.

We use convertible notes a lot at our fund - 8VC - so often that we just call them 'notes' to save time.

So March 2010, we launched Pinterest, and we were at 3,000 accounts. And that wouldn't be so bad if we hadn't started building Pinterest actually in November 2009. And that alone wouldn't have been so bad if I hadn't left my job to start a company in May 2008.

I really want to work for myself and build a business from nowhere.

I'm a very active angel investor in a number of different companies.

In getting Under Armour started, like any business, I think, number one, you need a great idea.

I'm a businessman, and what I know is numbers and business.

Some chefs go crazy with one restaurant, and if I had 20, I would go nuts.

People are like, oh, you just hang out with Kim all day. No, I'm working on 39 businesses. It drives me nuts.

To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.

I own 'The New York Observer.'

I used to have an obsession with building businesses and forgot about building health. I was focused on the destination instead of the journey. I caution you to not do the same.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.