Joy Mangano Quotes

I had always thought of starting my own record company. I haven't regretted the decision - yet!

I'm a risk-taker because I don't have a lot of experience in putting up a business before - I didn't really learn about this in school - but I still choose to do it, especially since I'm now getting good advice from people around me.

Because if you're prepared and you know what it takes, it's not a risk. You just have to figure out how to get there. There is always a way to get there.

You can do anything you want to do, if you know what to do.

An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.

A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.

Starting my business has been very hard work. I have received no help from any officials at all.

Anytime you make big plans, you have people questioning what you're doing.

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some sort.

I've gone skydiving twice. I was terrified about doing it, but I wanted to overcome that. The first time, I did it with my parents and I remember that they had already both jumped out, and suddenly it was my turn. And I thought, 'Well, I don't want to be an orphan,' so I guess I have no choice, and I jumped out of the plane.

In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learning process might also be called the courage development process.

The man who knows it can't be done counts the risk, not the reward.

Yet in all those cases I finally steeled myself to seize the opportunity, and find a way to muddle through and eventually conclude that I had, in fact, chosen the right path, as risky as it seemed at the time.

Starting a company is like throwing yourself off the cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.

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

There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance and start your business.

Academically, I was never that interested. I skipped classes. My biggest dream was to have a coffee shop, but I had no idea how to get the money to do that.

One reason why entrepreneurs are admired is that they often take on a degree of risk in launching a new business.

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.

I believe that every business and company takes two years to establish.

True entrepreneurs have to really forego almost everything; they have to put it all on the line.

My goal was to have a company off the ground by the time I graduated. But the worst-case scenario was I would have an MBA and a lot of opportunities ahead of me.

I wanted to go into this fight business, and I wanted to go into it full force. So when you do something like that - enter into a new venture - it keeps you very busy.

The main thing is to be a force, so guys will say, 'Tooz is kicking butts.'