Rob Portman Quotes

I didn't have that when I invented MyPillow. I didn't have a safety net.

For me, the risks in terms of opening that brewpub were fairly high. I put my house up as collateral, I invested the liquid money I had and two years of my time to get it over, but that's really not much of a risk for what the potential reward was if it worked.

Being an entrepreneur is all about risk. Being an entrepreneur is like going to Vegas every day and shoving all of your chips into the middle of the table every single day.

Bill Hewlett and I were brought up in the Depression. We weren't interested in the idea of making any money. Our idea was if you couldn't find a job, you'd make one for yourself.

It's easy to get a loan unless you need it.

Many a man who pays rent all his life owns his own home; and many a family has successfully saved for a home only to find itself at last with nothing but a house.

Risk-taking is my thing... I think of my company as my chip stack.

There are one hundred men seeking security to one able man who is willing to risk his fortune.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

It wasn't until we got our first office in Palo Alto where things became more like a company. We never went into this wanting to build a company.

I didn't take anything from anyone - first of all. Second of all, I opened a comedy club with money that I saved over 25 years. I created jobs.

Let me tell you something: I have members in my charter who, after paying their rent and house bills and taking care of their families, don't even have enough money left over to pay the fifteen dollars a week dues.

We sunk everything into it. It came close to going under several times.

Pizza made me who I am. In the summer of 1998, I dropped out of college and started a pizza restaurant called Growlies in my hometown in rural Canada. My seed money: a credit card with a $20,000 limit.

One thing I'd like to do is angel investing in small companies. That's what's exciting, and if you are lucky to have a bit of money, you can take those risks.

Maybe if you and ten of your friends could pool your savings and borrow some money and actually buy some obscure station in Sonoma, and then take some chances and have some fun.

When I work for someone else, I always make money for them. When I back my own ideas, I am bound to lose.

If your business had no risk, you could go get a bank loan and call it a day. VCs like risks - without them, venture capital wouldn't exist. But they need to be risks that VCs are good at assessing and managing.

We were so poor that my mother would often leave me in a foster home until she could raise enough money to rent rooms for us.

Since ours is an economy based on growth through risk-taking, we should provide encouragement not only for saving but for prudent investment of those savings.

Treasury notes are a precarious substitute either for coin or for bank notes, charges as they are with a growing interest, productive of no countervailing profit or emolument, and exposed to every breadth of popular prejudice or alarm.

We all get into business, and we take a risk in terms of putting capital.

There's no such thing as wealth without risk.

Small businesses are a risky proposition, and most celebrities want a home run.

After graduating from high school, even though I was working, I didn't have enough money to pay rent, so I stayed with my Nana.