Hilary Mason Quotes

What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.

In getting Under Armour started, like any business, I think, number one, you need a great idea.

I told myself the next time I had a good idea, I would bring it to market.

There's no seminar in the world that will give you multi million-dollar advice on building a business from scratch!

The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.

I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of business classes. I was really fascinated by economics. You end up having to be a marketeer, finance maven and a little bit of a technologist in order to get a business going.

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 think running a business, doing what I've done for the last - since 1996, has taught me so many things because I started from just an idea and then had to figure out how to make it, market it, every single thing from soup to nuts on how to get a product done and out there.

As of 2011, it cost about $5,000 to launch a tech startup.

The tools used by economists to analyze business firms are too abstract and speculative to offer any guidance to entrepreneurs and managers in their constant struggle to bring novel products to consumers at low cost.

If opening your own business is the dream, then it must start with a Dream - not only to understand what it is that you want to do, but also, how you are going to build something better than the same chaotic environment you just left.

When you're starting a new business, you don't need to know much about it. A lot of the work is blocking and tackling - it's the same type of stuff no matter what sector you're in.

I have this passion for building things, so I always wanted to build a startup. I always wanted to start my own company.

Starting a successful company is one of the hardest things anyone does.

I believe that every business and company takes two years to establish.

There are some keys to success in the fad business. One is never give up. You need total motivation and the right kind of creativity. You also have to back the right activity. It is a disaster if you back the wrong idea with your energy. You not only lose money, but you take a big social risk.

The biggest problem I see with early-stage entrepreneurs is they get the idea in their head, and they leave it in their head. And they begin embellishing it in their head, making it more ornate. They add on the second story to their dream house - then add the tennis court and the turrets and the gargoyles.

I love building companies; I love making products.

I watch 'Shark Tank,' of course. It's very entertaining. I think it's actually good to help people think about the business they might start, and sometimes you get encouraged by looking at someone going into business and saying, 'Hey, I could do that.'

How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea.

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

I'd start a business again in a heartbeat. Indeed, I hope that one day I may get the chance to do so when my mission here in Washington, D.C. is complete.

One of my top tips for aspiring entrepreneurs: Tell everyone you know about your idea. This runs contrary to the instinct that most people have, because they're afraid someone is going to 'steal my ideal.' Ideas alone are worth very little; it's in the execution and market feedback that companies are made.

Young entrepreneurs should spend an awful lot of time thinking about what they want to go into.

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.