Raymond Kwok Quotes

I've always been an entrepreneur, but it's never been about the money. I like a challenge, the harder the better.

I just know that it's smart for my career to carve my own path and do my own thing.

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.

For the first two years of Eventbrite, all the work was done by just the three founders: me, my husband, Kevin, and our chief technology officer, Renaud Visage.

The cool thing about a start-up - this is sort of the entrepreneur side of me - is that you can make it grow as much as you can. Or you can squander the talent as much as you want. But it's up to you.

The point of an accelerator is to teach you about companies and business, not about technology.

I'm an engineer turned entrepreneur who's passionate about connection.

I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.

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

I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.

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.

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.

It was supposed to be a year or two just to refresh my batteries, but I moved to Silicon Valley in the early 90's, and one thing let to another, got very involved in high tech, and formed a company and it ended up doing pretty well.

My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.

I was lucky - I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

We picked a great marketplace. We were a pioneer in payroll processing for very small companies. And we had the perseverance and good fortune enough to stick it out.

What does an entrepreneur do? The first thing is they've given themselves permission to see a problem. Most people don't want to see problems... Once you see a problem and you keep looking at it, you'll find an answer.

... encourage the free play of our people's genius for individual initiative.

If you are an entrepreneur, you have to think outside of the box.

For decades, technology entrepreneurship has been revered, and people like Steve Jobs and Elon Musk were heroes.

Believe in individual initiatives, in courage, in risk.

Elon Musk is an incredibly prolific entrepreneur, having come up with, or been at the founding team of Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity, PayPal, all different industries that seem to have nothing to do with each other.

Being an entrepreneur means being a creative businessperson.

Entrepreneurship is not only about starting businesses but is an attitude to life.

Not everybody wants to be Mark Zuckerberg, but everybody wants to create a little piece of the American dream, the Silicon Valley version. I don't think that's a bad thing.