Roy Choi Quotes

I always had this desire to be an entrepreneur, except I felt I didn't really know what I was doing.

When I graduate, I will either run a division of a company... or I'll get funding for my own company.

I was always excited by the idea of having my own company, but models are rarely serious when they venture off into something else, be it acting, singing, or starting their own business.

You learn really quickly how not only to be an artist, but you also become all of a sudden the CEO and owners of a company that you have to make major decisions about that I don't think we were fully prepared for in the beginning.

It's different when you become a professional, because you also have to become a businessman, and that takes something away from it.

Becoming an entrepreneur was the furthest thing from my mind. I actually had an identity crisis when I realized I had become one.

People don't know how hard it is to have your own business.

My transition from scientist to entrepreneur? Some would say that I still haven't made that transition.

It wasn't until we got our first office in Palo Alto where things became more like a company. We never went into this wanting to build a company.

You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck - and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee - or you can go out and become an entrepreneur.

I'd like to own my own garage and my own fishery. I'd also like to be a professional fisherman. But I'll take whatever happens.

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.

I was very lucky. I started my own commercial company.

Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often, innovators with good, safe, jobs are unwilling to put their family's access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance.

You can't be an entrepreneur and work in a public company anymore.

I believe for the first time in history, entrepreneurship is now a viable career.

At age 28, I had no retail experience, no consumer marketing experience and no real Internet experience. But I decided I wanted to work for myself. I felt starting a company would enable me to get the responsibility I deserved and that I couldn't do that within the confines of a bigger company.

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society.

I opened up a frozen-yogurt business out of college. I didn't finish college; I went halfway, and then I worked for Joel Silver, the producer, as a driver for a year.

You know, in the beginning when your first payroll comes up and you have to borrow money to meet the payroll, you lose sleep the night before, and you say to yourself real fast, 'Well, maybe I should keep working a couple more years. It's sobering.

My dad took on every job he could get. He worked like mad. But then, at some point, he had saved up enough to open his first pub.

I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I started my own software company in high school and went to college to study entrepreneurship.

It's much more difficult running a business than buying one.

Most small-business owners have no financial education when they started. They weren't trained to be entrepreneurs.

I do fantasize about having my own shop one day.