DJ Khaled Quotes

I was determined to make Renaissance Man Food Services and Herschel's Famous 34 major players in a very tough industry.

As an entrepreneur and a small business owner, you are intimately familiar with goals. You've dreamed of the 'right' ones, you've projected 'real' ones for the banker and the investor, and, secretly, you've imagined how life can be if you can reach the ones you've set.

I started cooking when I was 18 years old, and now I have restaurants all over the world.

It's tough, you know: I'm a chef first, and a restaurant owner, way before I was ever on Food Network, and it's a tough business.

In just a few years, I have turned my small company into a multi-million dollar makeup empire.

I want to become an entertainment, tech, and business mogul just in general.

I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.

In the years to come, I hope there will be Bill Rancic towers right alongside the Trump towers.

Ya know, I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald's. Ray had a vision of the most commonplace thing - a hamburger and fries to go - but to him it was just the greatest thing ever, and he was going to make it the greatest thing ever for everybody else, and he did.

But it's a blessing to be so successful within a year; it's the greatest feeling in the world, making money and doing the things that I'm doing, and I definitely trying to continue doing what I'm doing.

When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?

I sensed my chance and embraced the telecom business. I started marketing telephones, answering/fax machines under the brand name Beetel, and the company picked up really fast.

The music and airlines businesses are tough, but I've been successful in them.

I've been living the American Dream for over 25 years - just being able to do what I do, be creative, and make money out of it. It's incredible.

I have started many companies now worth more than $100 million. So I know a little about business.

Whether your dream is a $100,000 in sales or a million, the amount of work is likely the same - you'll still have 86,400 seconds each day, so why couldn't you imagine creating the company and enterprise that can fulfill every aspect of any dream you wish to have?

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

I lived my dream and I was able to accomplish my goals.

We've got to start making people realise that it's a proud thing to run a business, to export your goods around the country.

I started with shoes, and with hard work and discipline, the business prospered.

My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.

I'm very ambitious when it comes to business.

I own a couple of restaurants in places like Dubai and Sharjah.

As an outsider to and observer of the restaurant business, one of the things I most admire about it is the risks people are willing to take.