Tyler Winklevoss Quotes

In a family business, you grow up with close contact to the business, whatever it is, and the beer business is certainly a very social type of business.

My parents were entrepreneurs. I grew up believing in the power of innovation.

My father was a successful entrepreneur.

I grew up in Adelaide, Australia. No one in my family had finished high school, and I was smart at mathematics, so I became an academic and got my Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford. I didn't set out to be a businessperson.

Knowing that my ancestry had all been quite wealthy and owned their own businesses probably left me with the ambition to replicate what they'd done.

I don't think I ever dreamt of going into business. No one in my family was in business.

My mom started an air-freight company; my grandmother built a golf course. I have a certain degree of entrepreneurial risk-taking in my family history. Maybe that eventually rubbed off on me a little bit.

I like to believe that I got my business knowledge from my dad. He was able to see trends a long way off. And my mom is very good with people and emotional.

My family were all entrepreneurs, including my parents and grandparents.

I grew up in a conservative household, my parents were small business owners, so it really just was kind of part of who we were.

I always wanted to do creative things, but I was really interested in entrepreneurship. My family comes from a very entrepreneurial culture, so business was always something I was interested in.

I am an entrepreneur in the entertainment industry. Somewhere early on when I couldn't get something I wanted through the system, I threw up my hands and tried to figure a way to get it done myself. A lot of it came from my upbringing. My dad was an entrepreneur.

Growing up in a business-orientated family meant that I naturally learnt the tricks of the trade.

Most definitely always been a passion, and always been one of my goals in life as a young person, to have my own business. My dad gave us his entrepreneurial mindset, so that was also ingrained, as well as the tennis. So in a lot of ways it's a part of making my parents proud. I think we all want to make our parents proud, you know?

I think that my original drive as an entrepreneur was precisely that desire to get away from the image of the shipping magnate's son.

I come from a family of traders; my grandmother and my mother were very good at making money.

Young people should think in a different way - they should be job givers not job seeker.

If you're looking to become an entrepreneur then don't waste your time going to university or business school - just get on and do it.

You really want to have a back-up plan, so when you don't feel like acting, or you're getting older and settling down, you can produce your own stuff. So that's when I set about forming my own company and getting creative control.

Do I want to start my own production company? No, I doubt it. I'm too old for that. I don't want to start anything.

All human beings are entrepreneurs.

My father wasn't much for show business. He was an insurance man - very well-liked, very warm. He had a lot of friends.

In the information age, the richest people are entrepreneurs. We may not become a king or queen, but we can all be entrepreneurs.

The only reason you should be an entrepreneur is because that's the only way the idea will come into the world.

I'm still a really shitty programmer, but I know enough to hack a prototype together.