Daniel Boulud Quotes

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

Stop hoping for a promotion that's not coming. Instead, start a business at which you want to work.

As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.

I've been an employee all my life. Would I wish, if I could rewind it, to have gone down a different route? Possibly, but I've had a great time. Anyway I'm not ruling it out; I could still buy a business.

I wanted to be my own boss. I was fascinated by airlines and how I could change travel for the average person. Then I wanted to diversify.

Many people dream about being an entrepreneur, starting their own business, working for themselves, and living the good life. Very few, however, will actually take the plunge and put everything they've got into being their own boss.

I'd worked in music for years and built all these relationships, so I bought a camera, built a website, and decided to go for it.

I had never created my own business before. I had always been the gun to hire... But I had to finally say, nobody is going to give me my dream job, so I better figure it out myself.

I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while.

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work.

I'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store, I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up.

I worked for Microsoft until 1996, till I had a different angle to view life. I wanted to be an entrepreneur and control my own destiny.

I was an investor doing well and decided to be an entrepreneur.

When you start a company, it's a singular focus. You have the wind at your back.

I had no intention of being a film producer, and I knew I wasn't passionate about engineering. I was always set on having my own business, controlling my own destiny.

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.

I left halfway through my third year to start Lipstick On Your Collar, which was the first thing I ever did.

I'm just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I'm having fun, I'll do it. When it stops being fun, I'll try something else. Maybe I'll open up a chain of Popeye's Chicken.

Definitely, starting my own brand would be really exciting.

Nobody forces you to work at Wal-Mart. Start your own business! Sell something to Wal-Mart!

Starting your own business isn't just a job - it's a way of life.

I was always excited by the idea of having my own company, but models are rarely serious when they venture off into something else, be it acting, singing, or starting their own business.

I didn't have the patience to wait to take a degree before starting work, because I wanted to run my own business.

I had to quit a 'real job' to start my first company.