David Tepper Quotes

I'm coming out with my line of shoes and my very first shoe is called 'The Nethia.' How we came up with the name is that my legal name is Linnethia and we shortened it.

Company naming is a key part of the branding process, but it's subject to contrasting tastes and an illiquid domain name market that results in startups wasting their time during the branding process.

It took me a long time to put it to use in things, but the name of my publishing company is Nine Music, and "Red" became my theme song.

When I was 13, I opened my own business called The Awesome Pretzel Company, and my dad helped me build a pretzel cart.

Being an entrepreneur is more than a matter of simply starting a business.

We all get into business, and we take a risk in terms of putting capital.

One of the reasons I started my clothing line was because I went into an Urban Outfitters, and they were bootlegging my star logo on T-shirts.

We don't use the trademark to market anything. It's our identity.

When I was starting out, I thought about how the Internet is global and that we should have a global name, a name that's interesting. At that time, the best name was Yahoo! Suddenly I thought, 'Alibaba is a good name.'

In my world, if you want to make a record to make money, you're already off to a bad start.

That's when it becomes a business. When you've been public a long time, when it's a career. You do certain films, you sell them.

I got my first trademark in 2005: 'EcoGeek.' It was the name of a blog that had become my job. I had a dream of turning it into a big business. After spending a huge amount of time and money attempting to 'protect' that trademark, I let it lapse. It was still 2005.

Many people dream about being an entrepreneur, starting their own business, working for themselves, and living the good life. Very few, however, will actually take the plunge and put everything they've got into being their own boss.

I've invested a couple million into touring, and that's paid off.

I worked flipping cheeseburgers and Big Mac's at McDonald's, purchased a microphone, and cleared all the stuff out of my basement and started making music.

Actually, we got paid because the name Fortinet is so close to Fortnite, so I'm fine with their name being close to ours.

The financial side of Broadway is the easy part. Plenty of people want to put money in a Broadway show. The challenging part is finding the material that excites me enough to spend a couple of years of my life devoted to it.

I started drawing a mouse because it was my father's nickname for my mother. And mice are very expressive.

It certainly is a positive thing… having a trademark.

There's no shortage of investment into Manchester United.

I just play it safe when it comes to television because it is WWE's intellectual property. But it is literally my legal name, like on my ID. My name hasn't been Cody Runnels since I was 17. But it's theirs. At no point would I ever want to go into a courtroom with a company I have love and admiration for.

I had to quit a 'real job' to start my first company.

I name my companies things that are intentional, that are specific, that are worthy of ridicule if you are anything other.

I always liked 'Johnny Blaze,' but we announced it on TV, and it was under copyright by Marvel. Then I had 'Johnny Spade,' and that name sucked, then I had 'Johnny Nitro.' Johnny Nitro was one of my favourite names.

It really gets my back up when people start using business phrases - 'sustainability,' 'the brand,' etc. - about rugby.