John Hickenlooper Quotes

We all get into business, and we take a risk in terms of putting capital.

Entrepreneurs love to view risk as binary. The more you put on the line, the greater the potential for reward.

Being an entrepreneur is not for the faint of heart. It is a high-risk, high-reward proposition.

As a new entrepreneur, you need a stake in the game, but you can't risk it all.

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.

Pizza made me who I am. In the summer of 1998, I dropped out of college and started a pizza restaurant called Growlies in my hometown in rural Canada. My seed money: a credit card with a $20,000 limit.

My dad did everything he could. It was a start-up, and the banks didn't want to lend him enough money, so he mortgaged our house.

Anytime you take someone's money, that puts enormous pressure. But I think if you want the most reward, you have to take the most risk.

Small businesses are a risky proposition, and most celebrities want a home run.

True entrepreneurs have to really forego almost everything; they have to put it all on the line.

Some, but much of my money is tied up in Playboy stock.

If I can't play for big money, I play for a little money. And if I can't play for a little money, I stay in bed that day.

I made a tremendous amount of money on real estate. I'll take real estate rather than go to Wall Street and get 2.8 percent. Forget about it.

I had a friend who had been teaching music for a long time, and he knew a bunch of teachers, so I just put up the money and started a school.

If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.

You have to spend a lot to make a lot. It's not like I'm sitting on top of a pile of money.

When I started my first company, I still had a 40-hour a week job. I was working on my company on nights and weekends before I took the plunge and gave up a salary.

In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.

I've never done work for money ever. If your choices are based on grosses and the film doesn't do well, what does that mean? It leaves you with nothing.

Well, optimism's a good thing. It - makes people go out and - you know, start businesses and spend and do whatever is necessary to get the economy going.

I had $20,000, and I started up JYSK.

I make the majority of my money from Patron, but my passion is with Paul Mitchell: I spend 85 per cent of my time on it.

When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!

I didn't take anything from anyone - first of all. Second of all, I opened a comedy club with money that I saved over 25 years. I created jobs.

If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It's years of your life, it's your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment.