Tobias Lutke Quotes

I've taken the leap of faith to stop punching the company time clock and start working for myself. I'm now the CEO of Starfish Media Group, my production company, in New York City.

Passage Vero-Dodat - I started my company on this passage. It feels as much home as it can!

I'm very interested in my new kitchen equipment shop. I've started it with two friends.

Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.

Before I started WeWork, I owned a baby clothing company based in Dumbo, Brooklyn.

I'm an entrepreneur.

The Way I See It: If you're worried about getting a job-or keeping one-start a company of your own. By doing so, you'll reap the rewards of your hard work and you'll only get fired if you fail. This is the land of opportunity. Live in it.

In today's world, working for yourself is actually the safer route, and working for a corporation has become the riskier proposition.

See yourself as self employed.

I have reached here by selling tea.

A lot of people especially want to know about going into business. But it's a two-way conversation.

I knew that I wanted to start my own business. I knew that I wanted to work for myself. I was no stranger to the word no. You just have to keep going.

The greatest opportunities today are to go into business for yourself as an entrepreneur.

I'm a man without a corporation.

Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier.

I didn't know how to run a business. I was a terrible gallerist, the worst in history, possibly.

When I was starting out, being a young entrepreneur was not fashionable. Parents would ask, 'When are you going to get a real job?'

Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.

Starting a business is a huge amount of hard work... You had better enjoy it.

If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there'd be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.

I started eBay as an experiment, as a side hobby basically, while I had my day job.

I not only knew I wanted to go into retailing, I also knew I wanted to go into business for myself.

Republican Party is the party that stands for the people who are trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home, who are trying to give their kids a better life. And the only way that's possible is through the America free enterprise system.

Mrs Thicknesse and I agreed that a business of his own was probably the only solution for him because he was obviously unemployable.

Huh," Leo said. "Well, if you ever get off this island and want a job, let me know. You're not a total klutz." She smirked. "A job, eh?" Making things in your forge?" "Nah, we could start our own shop," Leo said, surprising himself. Starting a machine shop had always been one of his dreams, but he'd never told anyone about it. "Leo and Calypso's Garage: Auto Repair and Mechanical Monsters.