Alvin Leung Quotes

When I first decided to open a restaurant, I was turned down by several banks. It was the late 80's and many restaurants were failing. I refused to give up because I knew I had a good concept.

True entrepreneurshi p comes only from risk-taking.

The part that I know I enjoy most is the restaurants. You can't do everything, you know? For me, the priority has been being deeply involved in my restaurants and figuring out different ways to make them run better.

I love cooking. I'm in the restaurant business.

I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.

If you're positioned to start your own organization, that's great - but rare.

I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.

In high school, I started my first company, called M Cubed Software. We named it that because it was me and two other guys named Mike.

At a young age I always had an entrepreneurial spirit. So I'm trying to develop things on my own, too, and there are a couple things that have absolutely nothing to do with the entertainment business that I'm trying to tackle. We'll just sort of see.

I wouldn't mind having a nice little restaurant.

Roberto Donna is a great Italian chef.

The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.

My parents own a restaurant in Albuquerque.

I don't get to cook in my own restaurant.

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

To me, there's no great chef without a great team.

I think entrepreneurship is a beautiful thing.

I was a very good cook, and I knew I could build a business.

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

I don't think anybody ever started a great business because they wanted to make a little more cash. They had a dream. They wanted to better their life.

As a kid, I harbored this fantasy of starting a company. I looked at the entrepreneur column in Forbes. I looked at it every month and thought, 'I want to be that guy.'

As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some sort.

I always knew I wanted to run a business someday.

I never went to college. But the structure I grew up with was planted so deep that when it came to doing business, I knew how to be disciplined, create teamwork, and persevere. It set me up to be an entrepreneur and a successful franchiser.