Jon Oringer Quotes

I built websites for myself. I didn't want to work for anyone else. I came from a science background, so I approached things fairly analytically.

Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.

I started hustling in early adolescence.

I started my first company when I was 18 and learned by trial through fire, having no formal education or entrepreneurial experience.

In my junior high and high school days, I would just pick up a mower and go mow the neighbor's grass and make an extra 30 bucks.

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.

There are lots of people who say you are born an entrepreneur - you either have that gene or not. I really disagree with that.

I think entrepreneurship is combining a passion with the tenacity to problem-solve and the fearlessness to fail.

I'd been working since I was eleven so I could buy my own comic books. I was that kid knocking on your door, selling subscriptions to the paper and crying because I wasn't going to sell that last paper that would allow me to go to Disneyland.

Yeah, I just handle my business.

Entrepreneurs are not driven by fear; they are driven by the idea to create impact.

I didn't start until I was 21, and most people I know were 13 when they had their first guitar - I missed that time where you sit in your bedroom all day for years and accidentally you're doing classical training, although you're not thinking of it that way. It's not as easy, as you get older, to do all that kind of practice.

I enjoy doing businesses without anyone's help.

I used to not really know any other people when I was young that wanted to play music - that's why I learned everything myself. As a result, you kind of naturally become an engineer of sorts, because you've got to learn how to record everything.

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.

Entrepreneurship is a muscle, and winning is an endurance game.

To be honest, I have never had a 9-5 job where I worked for someone else.

From an early age, my initiative took many forms - teaching myself magic so I could do magic shows, buying wholesale goods and then selling them to other kids, learning many languages.

I worked odd jobs delivering pizza, folding chairs, telemarketing, selling kitchen cutlery door to door.

I always found creative ways to make money since I was pretty young kid.

My father raised me to build computers, hardware. Literally, as an 8 year old, I had a soldering iron and circuit boards, and this was in neighbourhoods that wouldn't have a whole lot of money or anything. And I figured out ways to just hustle.

I was mostly self-taught on guitar and that had its benefits. It's a great thing to work through problems on your own.

We don't want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.

It is important for children to learn, whether they want to pursue music or any other field.