Kevin Plank Quotes

From the time I was a kid, I was always interested in any and all kinds of new business ideas.

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.

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.

It's tough for people to get into business, especially a small business.

I really want to work for myself and build a business from nowhere.

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

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.

I'm just more excited about helping new entrepreneurs create the next Facebook or Google.

I had always wanted to start a company, ever since I was very young.

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.

As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work.

Relatively few people should start companies.

I'm quitting the business today. I'm going to open up an appliance store, I've always really been into toasters. I'm giving it all up.

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

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

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.

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

For those working menial jobs or putting in 100-hour weeks for corporations, the lure of starting your own business can seem like a great way to get more flexibility, upside, and ownership.

I'd start a business again in a heartbeat. Indeed, I hope that one day I may get the chance to do so when my mission here in Washington, D.C. is complete.

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.

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

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

Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.

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

Nobody forces you to work at Wal-Mart. Start your own business! Sell something to Wal-Mart!