Howard Schultz Quotes

Entrepreneurship is not really building a product, it's not having an idea, it's not being in the right place at the right time. It's fundamentally company building.

Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.

In getting Under Armour started, like any business, I think, number one, you need a great idea.

I've come to a real understanding of the enormity of what owner entrepreneurs do in founding great businesses. They are rare and a thing of art in many ways.

Entrepreneurship is all about deferred gratification.

I think of myself more as a designer than a serial entrepreneur. As a designer, the easiest way to see that something happens is to start a company and then be the boss, and then people have to do what you say.

Relatively few people should start companies.

After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93.

I was an investor doing well and decided to be an entrepreneur.

It's my company and I believe in the company that's why I started it.

A lot of people who own a business aren't entrepreneurial at all.

After decades of studying the men and women that make the decision to open their own Great, Growing Company, I'd have to say it comes down to the Vision they have for that business - do they expect to build the company or just have some income for the short term?

Most people who go into business for themselves and, therefore, believe they are entrepreneurs, are doomed to struggle because they don't have a true Entrepreneurial Perspective. They have a Technician's Perspective.

Entrepreneurs, by their nature, see not only problems but solutions and opportunities.

I think my gift lies in being a startup entrepreneur and creating environments and experiences.

If you want your company to succeed, you have to have the confidence in your business to take a bet on its future - to risk destroying a mediocre business model for the chance to have a strong one.

In the private sector, as the president of a small business, my focus has been on driving the growth of our business, not driving any partisan political agenda.

I'm not a business person.

Entrepreneurship can be taught to people with average academic abilities - the proof of that is everywhere you look.

A startup is not just about the idea: it's about testing and then implementing the idea. A founding team without these skills is likely dead on arrival.

In my experience, entrepreneurship tends to be kind of cumulative, like a layer cake. Taking some time away can make it hard to rev up.

Entrepreneurism is simply taking nothing, applying talent, brains, financial creativity and hustle, and turning that into something.

I'm not one for conventional wisdom. I founded my label in 1998, but after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, my Japanese backers pulled out, and I couldn't afford to produce the line myself. I needed fresh ideas from someone who understood technology, since that was the direction the business was going.

Successful entrepreneurship takes complete dedication and careful strategizing along with market analysis. Plus, successful startups provide countless benefits to a healthy economy and consumers in need.

I guess one of the main things you realize when you work as an entrepreneur is that it's long days, long hours.