Danny Meyer Quotes

It’s not about having a Silicon Valley attitude—it’s about having an entrepreneurial attitude. It’s about partnering with other organizations in and around your area. It’s about thinking big with entrepreneurs that sit next to you in your coworking space. It’s about collaborating with tech gurus, social media wizards and community leaders at cool business events. It’s the people that make a community an entrepreneurial one—not the location—and it’s up to you to contribute.

I've been entrepreneurial since middle school. I was always arranging bake sales, dances and school trips to raise money for the Dalton School.

Very few entrepreneurs start their business on the back of market research. Instead, they have tremendous zeitgeist, honed by paying attention to where they are.

Jeff Bezos was one of those best and brightest who came to N.Y. to work in finance. He didn't need to know anything about retail bookselling to start Amazon.

It's just coincidental that the acting took off first over everything else.

When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.

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

Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.

I started off in 1993 with one lorry. I wasn't one of those guys buying a business and gearing it up.

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.

I'm an accidental entrepreneur.

I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.

I've been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies.

There was never any career plan. When 'Red Dwarf' started I thought we were doing a curious little sitcom on BBC2, I didn't think I was becoming an actor. I didn't see that 21 years later I'd still be talking about it, let alone filming a new one. For me everything's always been an accident.

I want to open my own yoga studio. Planning construction and looking at properties is fun.

Good entrepreneurs can manage, but no one but an entrepreneur can entrepreneur, let alone help build and lead the world's community of leading social entrepreneurs and their top business entrepreneur allies.

I wanted to start a hotel company from scratch.

Start a small business, borrow money from your parents if you have to.

I define myself as the accidental entrepreneur.

My first words were always about food - I grew up in northern California, and when I was 10 years old, I had my own pretzel cart business.

When I was 13, I opened my own business called The Awesome Pretzel Company, and my dad helped me build a pretzel cart.

Immigrants have historically been an entrepreneurial bunch.

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

I was pretty entrepreneurial as a kid. I had a lemonade stand. When I was 12, I arbitraged the price of 7-Eleven hot dogs; I'd buy the ones that are pre-wrapped with the bun and then sell them on the beach.