Antoni Porowski Quotes

Entrepreneurship is really hard and painful - I'm not sure I'd recommend it for anyone who can't handle the extreme stress.

You know, being an entrepreneur is super hard work, and if you're not passionate about what you're doing, you're probably not going to succeed.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

The restaurant industry is brutal.

When I first decided to open a restaurant, I was turned down by several banks. It was the late 80's and many restaurants were failing. I refused to give up because I knew I had a good concept.

Starting a business isn't for everyone, and it's not what you should do if you aren't sure what else to do. It requires thick skin and the willingness to carry a great deal of stress, sometimes alone. It's more often a life of failure than a life of success, and the majority of successes came after a long road of disappointment, and often shame.

Starting a business is risky. Half of all new businesses fail to experience a fifth anniversary. And everyone knows that you could lose all the money you've invested in your new company and then some. Those are the obvious risks of trying to be an entrepreneur.

There's one thing I've learned about entrepreneurs' business plans. Every one is wrong.

We all get into business, and we take a risk in terms of putting capital.

Whenever you start a new business, the sheer number of variables at hand makes failure a constant possibility.

Being an entrepreneur is probably the most lonely thing you can do.

Once you meet an entrepreneur like Jack Ma, you just want to make sure you bet on him. It's not a hard decision.

Well, as we built the business in the 1990's, as I said, I enjoyed that.

If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.

The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.

Filmmaking can give you everything, but at the same time, it can take everything from you.

Before I got in this business I was in the chicken business.

Television is ultimately a business of failure. You try a lot of things, and most of it fails.

For me, the risks in terms of opening that brewpub were fairly high. I put my house up as collateral, I invested the liquid money I had and two years of my time to get it over, but that's really not much of a risk for what the potential reward was if it worked.

The truth is that most small businesses will not succeed and you need to be emotionally prepared for this.

Look at MIT—the smartest people in the world. They start up 50 companies a year. Only 1 makes it.

Entrepreneurs … benefit greatly from being willing to fail, willing to experiment. Good entrepreneurs tend to be stubborn on the vision but flexible on the details. They’re persistent on what they’re trying to accomplish, but they are willing to rewrite the details as needed as they learn and as things fail.

In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions.

Starting a business is not for everyone. Starting a business - I'd say, number one is have a high pain threshold.

There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance and start your business.