Andrew Yang Quotes

The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.

I know first-hand how hard it is to start a business. Those first few years are rough.

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

It's much more difficult running a business than buying one.

I've given a lot of talks over the years on the subject of entrepreneurship. The first thing I find I have to do is to dispel the persistent myth that entrepreneurial success is all about innovative thinking and breakthrough ideas.

If you can imagine what it's like to launch a business in the middle of a lawsuit - it's not an easy thing.

Before WeWork, I had a baby clothing company. When I started out, I had no real contacts in the garment business and no mentor to guide me on how things worked. I just had an idea to put pads on the baby clothes on to protect the baby's knees.

I think most people who try to start a business, they realise very quickly that one of the biggest hurdles is having to be self-determined.

The number one thing I would say to someone who wants to start a business is if you really can't sleep at night and smack the passion out of yourself, then go for it, but if you can live a happy life working for someone else, do that.

Starting my business has been very hard work. I have received no help from any officials at all.

The general message would be to say to all these young people: If you have entrepreneurial aspirations, there is money, there are consumers, there is a huge market. The only thing you need to do is to go there and start doing things.

Entrepreneurs can't forecast accurately, because they are trying something fundamentally new. So they will often be laughably behind plan - and on the brink of success.

In the future, I'd like to make jewelry and sell it under my own name. But right now, I've got enough on my plate!

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

Being an entrepreneur is tough. Really, really tough.

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.

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

Starting a business isn't for everyone, and it's not what you should do if you aren't sure what else to do. It requires thick skin and the willingness to carry a great deal of stress, sometimes alone. It's more often a life of failure than a life of success, and the majority of successes came after a long road of disappointment, and often shame.

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

I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'

When trying to start a company, your enemy isn't criticism, anger or insults. Your enemy is apathy.

Every time you start a company - and I've started five or six - you have the opportunity to screw up in whole new ways.

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.

Opening a business is going to be hard work, no matter what choices you make. If you decide to fall on your sword and just slog through all the work as an operator instead of an owner, then you take responsibility for the entire operation and the actions of the business.

Whenever I talk to people who founded a company, I often like to ask the prehistory questions 'When did you meet? How long have you been working before you started the company?' A bad answer is, 'We met at a networking event a week ago, and we started a company because we both want to be entrepreneurs.'