Barry Trotz Quotes

I own a mortgage company and a real estate company funded by the music. Florida is a kinda gold mine.

I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings.

Getting into the residential investment business entails lots of renovation work.

Financial struggle is often the direct result of people working all their lives for someone else.

Managers will work for a salary. Entrepreneurs create new businesses. Many people have capital, but instead of making money for business they build houses for rent. It's easy money to collect rental.

If you want a solid future, you need to create it. You can take charge of your future only when you take control of your income source. You need your own business.

I always wanted to have my own company. It was a psychological issue.

One of my key issues is economic empowerment.

So many people don't have control over their destiny in a way that I do, don't own their own businesses, don't have their own clients. I owe it to them to speak freely.

By helping New Yorkers turn their greatest expense - their home - into an asset, Airbnb is a vehicle that artists, entrepreneurs, and innovators can use to earn extra money to pursue their passion.

I'm hoping to earn enough to buy a few properties, that way I can make money that way and I want to do social work.

We started out as actors. When we were coming out of high school, we didn't want to be struggling actors, and - I remember the conversation - we were like, 'Let's invest in real estate!'

We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.

For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.

I want to save up money. This is probably long-term, but I for sure want to get into real estate and flip houses and start doing stuff like that. So I'm saving money. And, you know, being a kid at the same time. I want people to know I'm literally just a 16-year-old punk who's trying to hang out with some homies on the weekends.

Small business is the backbone of America.

I know of at least two black women who are billionaires: Sheila Johnson, who co-founded BET, and Oprah Winfrey. And I know of hundreds of black women whose net worth is over $1 million.

Young people must feel that they can be real actors in our economy and be creative and be imaginative and be innovative.

I think when you sell your company and are no longer the master of driving it, it's quite difficult.

We need to see many more people starting businesses and becoming their own boss, but the squeezed middle exists as much within this group as in the population at large as rising costs are hitting small businesses - who after all are consumers too.

I had never created my own business before. I had always been the gun to hire... But I had to finally say, nobody is going to give me my dream job, so I better figure it out myself.

What we get to do at TaskRabbit is create jobs. I'm excited about the opportunity that we have to what I think of is creating everyday work for everyday people.

When I was 19, my dad got sick, and I quit college to take over his business, a coffee shop on 19th Street, below Dupont Circle in D.C. I had been working there since I was 11 years old, so it was not a stretch to think that I could do it, but my record as a teenager, in many respects, was less than stellar.

Part of the American dream is 'I can own my own business, I can control my destiny. I can have the opportunity to work for myself.'

My family was pretty solidly middle-class. We had a furniture store out near Connie Mack Stadium, and when Dad died, my mom took it over.