Miguel McKelvey Quotes

I like to encourage people who are entrepreneurs-in-waiting.

Being an entrepreneur is my dream job, as it tests ones tenacity.

To some extent, being an entrepreneur is a lonely journey.

Being an entrepreneur is probably the most lonely thing you can do.

I had never created my own business before. I had always been the gun to hire... But I had to finally say, nobody is going to give me my dream job, so I better figure it out myself.

We all have an entrepreneur in us; it's just whether we choose the tradeoffs to become one.

I guess one of the main things you realize when you work as an entrepreneur is that it's long days, long hours.

Entrepreneurship is all about deferred gratification.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work.

My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

I really want to work for myself and build a business from nowhere.

I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.

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

I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business.

I had no intention of being a film producer, and I knew I wasn't passionate about engineering. I was always set on having my own business, controlling my own destiny.

My father was a chef but hadn't owned his own business. I didn't like that. In my heart of hearts, I knew I wanted to be in business.

I think that initial independence is very important; that's what being an entrepreneur is all about.

I have always thought of myself as an inventor first and foremost. An engineer. An entrepreneur. In that order. I never thought of myself as an employee. But my first jobs as an adult were as an employee: at IBM, and then at my first start-up.

Being an entrepreneur is tough. Really, really tough.

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.

I thought, if I went into business I'd be able to control my own destiny.

My dad started his business, No Limit, for himself.

As you get older, I think everyone feels that, no matter what the job: to try a hand at running the business as opposed to simply being an employee.

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.