Ronnie Screwvala Quotes

Everybody was telling me I should just stand alone on my first project, and I started to see what they were saying.

Look, I'm an entrepreneur, I want to create things, I'm a builder. I don't want handouts. If I didn't play football I'd be doing something else. That's me. I don't want to be held back. I want to go forward. I want to better myself.

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.

Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

For me, I want my kids to find their way. If they're interested in something, I want them to try it out.

I never learned management. I never went to business school. I'm an artist. I happened to have really clear ideas of what I thought my business should be.

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 gotta do what I think is right, and if enough people like it, I'm a winner. And if they don't, I'll open a bookstore.

The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.

I just know that it's smart for my career to carve my own path and do my own thing.

Learn to bet on yourself and have confidence in your own decisions. No one knows your business better than you.

I learned I'm not a good executive, I'm an entrepreneur and I'm creative. I have to go with my gut and do what I want to do.

The same instincts that make us good students can make us lousy entrepreneurs.

Being in this business and surviving day-to-day can be a constant struggle. It's about learning how to be your own super hero, put on your own cape, and be a well-rounded individual.

I'd tell my teenage self he did the right thing never getting a proper job.

I got my start by giving myself a start.

I often see people who I think could be really successful in business but they just don't realise they have the skills and they don't believe in themselves.

I was terrified to go solo. It's lonely doing it by myself. But I wanted to challenge myself.

Everywhere I've been I've bet on myself.

My thing is "You don't need anyone else to empower you; you can empower yourself." Whether it's a pep talk or putting on a good shade of lipstick, whatever you need to do, do it, but be yourself. You absolutely don't need someone else to tell you that you're good enough.

The heart of the entrepreneur can beat freely in anyone.

I'm not a guy who needs to read motivation books.

It's important to set challenges that you're not sure you're equal to.

I've learned to think, I may succeed or fail, but I'm going to do so on the merit of my own instincts.

I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.