Andrew Yang Quotes

From my point of view, what I really like, what I think is really terrific about my work, is that the company's had the opportunity to train literally thousands and thousands of brand new franchisees to successfully run their very first business.

People assume I sell a lot more records than I actually do. I really don't sell any.

I look around at people who had success so early and then didn't know what to do with themselves.

No idea for a new growth business ever comes fully shaped. When it emerges, it's half-baked, and it then goes through a process of becoming fully shaped.

And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.

I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now.

A lot of entrepreneurs hate big companies. But if you hate them so much, why are you trying to build a new one? The truth is, as soon as a startup has any kind of success whatsoever, it will face big company problems.

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.

If you start a successful company in China at 11 A.M., by 2 P.M. there's three more companies like it.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

In the first three years of Mint, from when it was founded to when it was sold, I can honestly say that in a sustainable way, I couldn't have worked any harder on it.

After three failed marriages, I know what it's like to be replaced. So that's kind of how Joey Harrington must feel today... A former No. 1 choice looks to me like he's going to be a bust in Detroit.

In 2003 Scotland had 36 new business registrations per 10,000 adults. It's still the same.

Most start-up companies fail and it is smart public policy to help entrepreneurs increase their odds of succeeding. But, the biggest loss to our economy is not all the start-ups that didn't make it: It's the ones that might have been created but weren't.

I always think that I have plenty of time for everything, and then the reality of it doesn't quite match up.

I really, really thought that it was a no-brainer in terms of being a hit. And so it does surprise that that hasn't been the manifested reception of it so far.

I've spent my whole life with people underestimating me.

I have a lot of what you might call creative self-loathing - I have pretty high expectations, and they seem to consistently be higher than what I'm able to accomplish.

Capitalists seem uninterested in capitalism, even as eager entrepreneurs can't get financing. Businesses and investors sound like the Ancient Mariner, who complained, 'Water, water everywhere - nor any drop to drink.'

It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.

Well, as we built the business in the 1990's, as I said, I enjoyed that.

There is so much uncertainty out there, and the government in Washington doesn't seem to get it. What's needed is a new business environment.

About 10 million people start a business each year, and about one out of two will make it. The average entrepreneur is often on his or her third startup.

Failure was built into it by an extraordinary of exaggerated expectations.