Kevin Harrington Quotes

Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier.

If you want to be an entrepreneur, it's not a job, it's a lifestyle.

We are calling ourselves a startup nation, but the number of people who set out on their own is very low; even 10,000 a year would be low in a country like India. We can say we are a startup nation but the world won't say it.

School taught me how to do a 9-5 job rather than be a person who wants to start a business.

I think I probably had to start a company, because I don't think I can work for other people.

Once you're an entrepreneur you're always an entrepreneur, and you need that fix.

I had been an independent entrepreneur from the beginning, and I felt I could do it myself. I didn't want to get a job.

I have always had an entrepreneurial spirit. When I was seven, I remember sticking a sign on my bedroom window that read, 'Manicures and massage, come on in.' My mother rushed in, saying, 'All these weirdos are knocking on the door.'

If you immediately take a job somewhere, you've given up on the dream of being an entrepreneur and creating jobs for people and making new technologies and making new paths.

I'm an entrepreneur.

All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out.

The Way I See It: If you're worried about getting a job-or keeping one-start a company of your own. By doing so, you'll reap the rewards of your hard work and you'll only get fired if you fail. This is the land of opportunity. Live in it.

The greatest opportunities today are to go into business for yourself as an entrepreneur.

A business owner is the boss, but it's a job, a place that is stable and profitable. An entrepreneur is an artist of sorts, throwing his/herself into impossible situations and seeking out problems that require heart and guts to solve. Both are fine, but choose.

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.

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.

Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.

Young entrepreneurs will make a difference in the Indian ecosystem.

Entrepreneurs embody the promise of America: the idea that if you have a good idea and are willing to work hard and see it through, you can succeed in this country. And in fulfilling this promise, entrepreneurs also play a critical role in expanding our economy and creating jobs.

Atari showed that young people could start big companies. Without that example it would have been harder for Jobs and Bill Gates, and people who came after them, to do what they did.

Relatively few people should start companies.

Everywhere I go, I always look for creative entrepreneurs, whether it's artisans and craftsmen, small farmers and gardeners, or restaurateurs who use fresh, locally sourced ingredients. I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.

You either go through your life working for someone and getting a paycheck - and it can be a damn good paycheck, and I am not complaining as someone who has always been a salaried employee - or you can go out and become an entrepreneur.

I've taken the leap of faith to stop punching the company time clock and start working for myself. I'm now the CEO of Starfish Media Group, my production company, in New York City.