Quotes About Entrepreneurship

I look up to entrepreneurs who command respect and attention for daring to think out of the box and act accordingly.

At the end of the day, I'm the biggest boss. I'm self-made.

I've put projects out on my own label twice now and been very successful which shows you don't need a major label to back you in this day and age.

I still read scripts, and if something great comes along, that's great... but this is my day job. The Row is where I go every day.

Dealing with business and trying to create never mixes for me.

I've been making deals all my life.

Let it be understood that I am interested in making multimillion-dollar business deals.

It's impossible to get to a billion dollars by endorsement deals. The biggest deals only take you so far. It's how you make money when you're asleep that's going to get you there.

I am not just sitting in my office making deals all the time.

My experience is not creating debt but my experience is creating jobs.

I realized after my first play that no one was going to offer me roles for theatre. So I started my own theatre company even though I was in deep debt in 1988.

I've said it for four decades - work 'on' your business, not just 'in' your business!

My candle-making business gives me decent money.

I think I have a pretty decent business savvy, when I give myself room to.

I do think entrepreneurs need to be smart, but there's another scale I never evaluated myself on that is now the source of my deepest strength: Not how much brains I have, but how much love I have.

I define myself as the accidental entrepreneur.

Many foreign students take their California degrees back to their home countries. They become entrepreneurs that develop products that they sell back to us.

What really promotes business in this country is liberty, not demand for information.

Dragons' Den' is about as close to real business as you can get on television.

When I used to try and describe what the Khan Academy was, I would tell people that if it were a for-profit, I would be on the cover of 'Forbes.'

I really see myself continuing to design clothes, fragrances.

I want to do everything. I want to do commercials, endorsements. I want to design.

I feel like design school might ruin people, particularly if you're a menswear designer, as there's not much focus on business.

A lot of people ask, 'How did you start the business, and how did you do it money-wise?' And the truth is that I had three jobs. A day job, an evening job, and then designing my collection as well. That's just how we did it.