John Rocha Quotes

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

Along the way, I learned the key to launching a company. It's all about storytelling.

I can't understand the conditions of a corporate product being designed and getting millions. I admire it, it's great, but I don't know how to do that. I have to have the wheel.

I enjoy building something good and having a successful product and making money.

In a business, you have a vision, and you follow the vision. You have to execute. And then you have to learn how to run a good business. And I think if you look at the characteristics of any successful fashion business, it's all about that.

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.

I can't understand the conditions of a corporate product being designed and getting millions. I admire it, it's great, but I don't know how to do that.

It's an error in judgment to bounce into starting a small business before you cash in on building a strong foundation.

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

You can be as creative as you want to and build all these cool projects, but ultimately, if they're not successful and you don't have the business structure in place, everything will flop.

I always knew I wanted to start my own line. Nights and weekends, I would work on my business plan.

What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.

I knew nothing about sales, marketing or how to run a company. Nor did I have a desire to do any of those things.

I watch 'Shark Tank,' of course. It's very entertaining. I think it's actually good to help people think about the business they might start, and sometimes you get encouraged by looking at someone going into business and saying, 'Hey, I could do that.'

We are not into financial services, and we are not interested also because we find we are better in branded marketing enterprises.

I think running a business, doing what I've done for the last - since 1996, has taught me so many things because I started from just an idea and then had to figure out how to make it, market it, every single thing from soup to nuts on how to get a product done and out there.

I think there's a number of pillars to success. One is you've got to have a great idea. The other is you've got to have a constituency, you've got to have finance, and you've got to be able to raise awareness.

As of 2011, it cost about $5,000 to launch a tech startup.

The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.

There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.

A big part of the accelerator is to help scientists become entrepreneurs. I like to think about each business being built on three major areas: creating the value, creating the product, and extracting the value. We provide help in each of these areas.

If you are planning to start a business, and if you want that business to have a hope of succeeding, be sure you are approaching your venture from a true Entrepreneurial Perspective.

When you're starting a new business, you don't need to know much about it. A lot of the work is blocking and tackling - it's the same type of stuff no matter what sector you're in.

In getting Under Armour started, like any business, I think, number one, you need a great idea.

I think my sister and I just focus on working hard. We started off working with Wal-Mart on our first clothing line as an extension of our personal brand when we were 12, and we got to learn about being aware of what was in the market and what wasn't.