Isaac Hanson Quotes

What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.

Very few entrepreneurs start their business on the back of market research. Instead, they have tremendous zeitgeist, honed by paying attention to where they are.

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.

My first venture was to trade bicycle parts and hosiery yarn. The initial days proved to be difficult, and I earned very little from my business. But I kept at it. Each day, when I retired for the night, I told myself that money would come in the next day.

When trying to start a company, your enemy isn't criticism, anger or insults. Your enemy is apathy.

I almost never invest in ideas or plans, so you'll need to have a company and at least a product, if not customers.

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

My sister and I had a lemonade stand - with a two-drink minimum.

I'm running a business.

Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.

Starting a successful company is one of the hardest things anyone does.

I had this dream of starting a pizza business since college. I came up with the name, menu, and recipes back then.

I told myself the next time I had a good idea, I would bring it to market.

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 knew, back when I was starting up, that if I had something that could be developed for the mass market, I could really take it forward.

I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work.

I love building companies; I love making products.

I really want to work for myself and build a business from nowhere.

I knew nothing about sales, marketing or how to run a company. Nor did I have a desire to do any of those things.

I watch 'Shark Tank,' of course. It's very entertaining. I think it's actually good to help people think about the business they might start, and sometimes you get encouraged by looking at someone going into business and saying, 'Hey, I could do that.'

How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea.

The general message would be to say to all these young people: If you have entrepreneurial aspirations, there is money, there are consumers, there is a huge market. The only thing you need to do is to go there and start doing things.

I have a business background. I have always wanted to open my own business.