Rob Dyrdek Quotes

Entrepreneurship isn't for everyone, and not everyone is going to be an entrepreneur, but women who turn to business, turn to economics, because there are people depending on them, I think that their creativity, their resilience, their spirit, embody what's best about entrepreneurship.

People ask me all the time, 'How can I become a successful entrepreneur?' And I have to be honest: It's one of my least favorite questions, because if you're waiting for someone else's advice to become an entrepreneur, chances are you're not one.

Being an entrepreneur is a mindset. You have to see things as opportunities all the time. I like to do interviews. I like to push people on certain topics. I like to dig into the stories where there's not necessarily a right or wrong answer.

I never knew anything other than wanting to be an entrepreneur. I tried my first business when I was 6 years old, and I started another business when I was 8. I don't think I knew anything besides that.

I think that initial independence is very important; that's what being an entrepreneur is all about.

The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.

I've been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies.

In order to be creatively satisfied and financially secure, you need to be a self-starter. I'm always assuming nothing's going to work out and I have to roll up my sleeves.

Aspiring entrepreneurs are often advised to work at a startup for a couple of years first, to understand what's involved. But often, each company's approach to success is very narrow. So my advice is, 'Just do it.'

Being self-made means doing things your own way - and doing it without any handouts.

I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.

Entrepreneurship is not only about starting businesses but is an attitude to life.

Entrepreneurship is in my nature.

I hate the the word 'disempower,' because it seems kind of cliche, but I do think that we take people's ability to self-teach away by creating this idea that that someone else has to do this for you, that you have to take a course, you have to do it in some formal way.

Entrepreneurship can be taught to people with average academic abilities - the proof of that is everywhere you look.

You never work for someone else. The truth is someone is paying you to work for yourself.

The richest people in the world build networks. Everyone else is trained to look for work, that's why there are two types of people today. Those who build their own dreams and those who build someone else dreams.

I don't think anyone is 'born' an entrepreneur. It is not a genetic thing. But you do need self-confidence, guts and a relentless attitude to life-it's a24/7 treadmill, not a jump-on, jump-off routine.

I knew I always wanted to be my own boss. My mum would say I've been my own boss since primary school. It was probably always my destiny.

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

If I don't get work, I'll create it.

I know what I can do at 155.

When there is no work, I create my own.

I only can talk about myself and my experience. Honestly, working on your own terms is difficult for a newcomer but not impossible. I am an example of that.

In the beginning, I was doing whatever came my way. But that's how life is. I am not sitting around calling a 'daddy' to make a movie for me.