Mark Duplass Quotes

My parents started a business out of the living room of our home and, 30-plus years later, it was a multimillion dollar company. So, President Obama, with all due respect, don't tell me that my parents didn't build their business.

I grew up with stories of people who start their own businesses and do really well. So I thought, 'OK, that's what you do.' I can thank my dad for that.

I feel I am a role model to many, not just for my designs, but also for the fact that I started my own company with the help of my two friends. I became a success story, and people relate to that.

My parents grew that small business from one 18-year-old guarding a bingo to more than 125 employees in three states. And sure, there was help along the way. But my parents took the risk. They stood up. And you better believe they built it.

I have reached here by selling tea.

Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.

I say, 'If I'm able to go out there and achieve a dream, then anybody can do it.'

Being an entrepreneur is my dream job, as it tests ones tenacity.

I've studied the lives of the 20th century's great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success.

My dad took on every job he could get. He worked like mad. But then, at some point, he had saved up enough to open his first pub.

I was lucky - I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

My father was a small-businessman, and if he didn't get up and go to work, there would be no business.

I'm really a self-made businesswoman.

Even entrepreneurs with the best ideas sometimes need a little wind beneath their wings.

That's where I'll get the love in my heart: from, the fact that little young guys can look at the obstacles that I had to go through to become a Hall of Famer and know it's not so bad when it comes to them trying to accomplish the same goal.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

I'm actually an American success story.

I didn't corner the market on great stories. I'm not the only one who can do something like work at a grocery store and then win a Super Bowl. Other people can do it. You hope people will see that and say, 'Hey, that will be me.' They're going to chase after it like I did. And they're going to be the next one.

Having my own label has been nothing short of amazing!

In business, you take a swing and you hope that you hit a home run, but sometimes you strike out. Strikeouts and failures are important. Being down, getting punched in the gut every once in a while by life and coming back up, that's accomplishment.

If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there'd be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.

I am proof that the American dream still exists.

It's never easy to set up any business, but it comes back to determination and drive and the love of what you do!

In my particular instance, I came from a family that didn't have anything. Everything I earned in life I made. Myself. With songs that I wrote.

Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.