Tim Armstrong Quotes

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

At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining.

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

I am a serious businesswoman. I don't enjoy being out there on TV; it's not what I do well. But I love building companies; I love making products.

The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur.

I believe in this industry as a business, and I want to continue to grow my own business.

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

I'm a business owner.

I've built 'The Conversation' from the ground up with no business training.

I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side.

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

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

I think of myself more as a designer than a serial entrepreneur. As a designer, the easiest way to see that something happens is to start a company and then be the boss, and then people have to do what you say.

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've always been an entrepreneur. I start businesses for a living.

'Entrepreneur' is a French word.

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

Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.

I was very lucky. I started my own commercial company.

I'm going to start a lot of companies. These are not sham companies. These are great businesses.

I always knew I wanted to run a business someday.

My father was an entrepreneur - a sign maker, and he had about 20 employees - and often he'd take me to business meetings, and I would listen to him talk with his workers and customers. We would also talk a lot about business over dinner.

I don't really think of myself as a businessman at all. That's why I have the 'chief creative officer' role.

And I thought I'd always like some form of business, I didn't know what kind of business I'd go in.

My sister and I had a lemonade stand - with a two-drink minimum.