Glenn Kelman Quotes

A problem with school is that you often become what you study. If you study, let say cooking, you become a chef. If you study law, you become an attorney, and a study of auto mechanics makes you mechanics. The mistake in becoming what you study is that, too many people forget to mind their own business. They spend their lives minding someone else's business and making that person rich

Now I don't work for the money or the glory. I just work because I like building businesses.

I could never live a nonproductive life and I feel that I have lived a productive life as far as I want to in terms of this company that I have for so many years.

I want to build something I'd be happy to be employed by 10 years out.

I've created my own career in my life, and I've had a lot of fun doing it. I think that's good.

Having the option to be able to have a career and feel good about yourself as an individual and still be a great mother is definitely a possibility.

I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.

I love being a businessman much more than being a hacker.

Mentorship is key to unlocking each of our entrepreneurial spirits.

I always say, thank god I have this job or I don't know what I'd be doing. It'd be sad. I've always felt like I have been trying to brand a world for a quite a long time. You know what though, I feel no different. I feel like I'm doing the exact same thing I did in high school. Only I have more people helping me out now. And we have to take it all the way.

The person I am is who I am. My life is my career, my career is my life.

I've enjoyed all the parts of my career.

I'd like to see the word 'entrepreneur' knocked off its pedestal. Being 'entrepreneurial' is something I look for not only in founders to invest in, but also employees to hire.

The biggest mistake I've seen people make with their careers is, when they're good, after two or three years - and they happen to be smart - they announce that they're going out to start their own firm.

A lot of times when people are released or, unfortunately, get fired, they almost scramble for what it is they are going to do next. I think when you are no longer working under a big, corporate umbrella, you have to be your own brand, your own enterprise. That was my thought process before I left.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

I always said I was very grateful for Chelsea. I spent an amazing time of my career there, we won a lot of trophies, and I think I became a better player. I have great friends in the club, and I always wish the best for them.

That's the principle I teach - find your passion in life and figure out a way to make money.

Absolutely I'd be happy with my career.

I feel one should do things which pleases them, and my progression into super model then to an actress and now to an entrepreneur is based on this.

Women are not going to start businesses because we tell them we don't have enough people of a certain group. People want to start businesses because it's a way of fulfilling their ambitions and dreams.

Yes, I've worked very hard and made sacrifices along the way, but I'm in the very privileged position of doing something that I love every single day - and earning a living from it.

What I've been doing over the course of my career - everybody's been seeing me be my best self.

I was lucky enough to find my passion early - in retail - and I have done well but, most importantly, loved doing it.

I've built my career around my life instead of being consumed by the fame monster.