John Caudwell Quotes

I have a business background. I have always wanted to open my own business.

How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea.

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

You cannot get into business for the fashion of it.

When I was 13, I opened my own business called The Awesome Pretzel Company, and my dad helped me build a pretzel cart.

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

It's tough for people to get into business, especially a small business.

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

Starting a business is not for everyone. Starting a business - I'd say, number one is have a high pain threshold.

There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance and start your business.

There's no seminar in the world that will give you multi million-dollar advice on building a business from scratch!

My goal was to have a company off the ground by the time I graduated. But the worst-case scenario was I would have an MBA and a lot of opportunities ahead of me.

What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.

Very few entrepreneurs start their business on the back of market research. Instead, they have tremendous zeitgeist, honed by paying attention to where they are.

I've always been an entrepreneur. I start businesses for a living.

My first business deal was with my mother. I invested in chickens. I sold the eggs to my mother.

You've got to know business before you go to show business.

I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of business classes. I was really fascinated by economics. You end up having to be a marketeer, finance maven and a little bit of a technologist in order to get a business going.

I'd start a business again in a heartbeat. Indeed, I hope that one day I may get the chance to do so when my mission here in Washington, D.C. is complete.

My first venture was to trade bicycle parts and hosiery yarn. The initial days proved to be difficult, and I earned very little from my business. But I kept at it. Each day, when I retired for the night, I told myself that money would come in the next day.

I don't think you should ever start a business and move in a direction where you can't see it becoming a business.

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.

People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards.

Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.

One of my earliest ventures was when I was nine years old. I realized there was a shortage of pencils at school, so I started Rent-a-Pencil. But I made a fundamental mistake. Everybody stole my pencils.