Kevin O'Leary Quotes

My husband and I are small business owners.

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

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.

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

I've run several of my own small businesses in my life.

It's tough for people to get into business, especially a small business.

I have wanted to run my own business since my time at Clitheroe grammar school. I remember thinking if I could get a penny from everyone in Britain, I would earn £208,000 a year.

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

We need to get out of the way of the small business owner - and big business owners - and allow them to do what government can only dream of doing: creating jobs and thereby creating wealth.

People don't know how hard it is to have your own business.

I have a business background. I have always wanted to open my own business.

My first venture was to trade bicycle parts and hosiery yarn. The initial days proved to be difficult, and I earned very little from my business. But I kept at it. Each day, when I retired for the night, I told myself that money would come in the next day.

Small business in America is booming. The job creator in America, small business, is absolutely moving ahead.

I always knew I wanted to run a business someday.

In America, small business is a big deal.

There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance and start your business.

What makes business exciting is that you don't need a fancy degree, and anyone can do it.

I decided on a chocolate business. I love the history of chocolate and making it and the fact that people of any gender, age, and race enjoy it. I found a space in Brooklyn that had not been used in 30 years. Then I talked to an investor who wanted more than 50 percent of the business.

In the sixth grade, I planned to start my own business making custom fishing lures.

We must give young people and others who cannot find a job a direct and clear incentive to create one for themselves by starting a business.

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.

Britain is a proud nation of entrepreneurs, and small businesses are the backbone of our economy.

Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier.

I'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store, I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up.

My parents were entrepreneurs. They ran a small ad agency in upstate New York.