Maelle Gavet Quotes

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

How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea.

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.

Definitely, starting my own brand would be really exciting.

When trying to start a company, your enemy isn't criticism, anger or insults. Your enemy is apathy.

I almost never invest in ideas or plans, so you'll need to have a company and at least a product, if not customers.

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

Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.

'Bazillion Dollar Club' follows six struggling startups trying to get their products together.

The biggest problem I see with early-stage entrepreneurs is they get the idea in their head, and they leave it in their head. And they begin embellishing it in their head, making it more ornate. They add on the second story to their dream house - then add the tennis court and the turrets and the gargoyles.

There are a lot of people building small ideas now. There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.

Today as an entrepreneur you have more options.

Relatively few people should start companies.

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.

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.'

The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.

One of the banes of successful innovation is that companies may be so committed to innovation that they will give the innovators a lot of money to spend.

I saw these new kinds of stores: the Body Shop, the Sock Shop, and I thought to myself, 'I can do that.'

One of my top tips for aspiring entrepreneurs: Tell everyone you know about your idea. This runs contrary to the instinct that most people have, because they're afraid someone is going to 'steal my ideal.' Ideas alone are worth very little; it's in the execution and market feedback that companies are made.

I do think a lot of people are trying to do important things still, and I think it is really a great thing that entrepreneurship is getting easier. When I started, it was just much harder to begin a company.

I think that sometimes people are frightened to take the risk of entrepreneurship.

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.

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.

There are immense numbers of potential entrepreneurs who can start their own businesses among the people who are working in large organisations.

Young people in Israel are encouraged to design, produce and sell their products from high school. Technical universities also matter. Teach and introduce entrepreneurship courses in technical universities.