Quotes About Entrepreneurship

I never envisioned multimillion-dollar offices for ECW.

I had a couple of investments that didn't go my way. That's why I laugh at guys who say, 'Oh, I'm going to open a clothing line. I'm going to start a restaurant.'

It's okay to work for someone else; not everyone is cut out to own a business, and even so, working for someone else is a chance to learn how to both be an employee and an employer.

Entrepreneurs almost always have to step out of existing institutions that embody old ways of doing things to build their vision.

The idea of having a house, a kid, a husband, and a dog... I love that. I also really want to open a coffee and flower shop one day, probably in Italy.

Weirdly enough - if I make enough money one day - I want to open a board game bar.

I would love to one day have my own line of clothes.

One of the things I have known my entire life is that I have an innate capability for making money.

When I bought companies, it was done on trust, on a one-on-one basis, and with the intention of taking care of employees. Today, it's about who can bid the highest. There's no personal interest. It's a different world and one that an entrepreneur like me doesn't like much.

It was a lot of hard work, but everyone loved my Amy Childs' Collection, so I decided to have a boutique as well as my salon. I love designing my own dresses, and everyone is loving the collection. I can't believe how well the boutique and the clothing online is going.

I started one of the first online video companies way back in 2003.

I'd always loved technology. It's something I always messed around with in computer labs at school. So I glommed onto it very early as way to differentiate myself in business.

To join in the industrial revolution, you needed to open a factory; in the Internet revolution, you need to open a laptop.

I love food, and my girlfriend comes from an architecture background, so we might open up a restaurant.

I want to open a restaurant.

I remember feeling a little guilty every time I opened a Chipotle. I felt guilty because I wasn't following my true passion. But that eventually went away. And I realized that this is my calling.

I always worked in institutions, I never had a restaurant of my own before, but I have opened over 30 hotels, restaurants and casinos. I understand what it takes to keep them running.

I started selling insurance in 1979 and continued doing that until 1985 when I opened my own insurance firm.

I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents.

After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.

Having never taken a business class, the economics of restaurants scared me. I opened Chipotle with the idea that I could step away from it and use it to support my full-scale restaurant.

After a two-year stint at Stars, I wanted to start my own full-service restaurant, but I didn't have the funds to do so, so I got a modest loan from my parents and opened Chipotle with the goal of having it fund that restaurant.

When I told my friends and family that I was leaving Stars to open a burrito shop in Denver, they thought I was crazy, but not long after the success of the first Chipotle, I knew I had to open just one more, so I opened a second one on Colorado Boulevard, which turned out to be even busier than the first.

'Dragons' Den' and 'The Apprentice' have opened people's eyes to what they can do.