Sean Connery Quotes

A lot of artists have a lot of different ventures, I think it's typical for a hip hop artist, at this point, to have a bunch of different ventures.

I'm not sure I knew what an entrepreneur was when I was ten, but I knew that starting little businesses and trying to sell greeting cards or newspapers door-to-door or just vending machine kind of thing is.. there's just something very intriguing to me about that.

I try to keep things as varied as possible in my career, and after playing something as fun and over the top as Maryann on 'True Blood,' I wanted to find something antithetical to that.

I've had a lot of different companies. I've been in banking and automobiles and real estate and a lot of things.

What launched me toward Feedburner? Well, the Internet happened. When I saw Mosaic, I thought, 'I gotta do this.' I founded and sold a few companies. Feedburner was my fourth.

I was into real estate. I was always an entrepreneur.

I didn't want to go to college - I was bored by junior high. So I was in church one day, staring at the stained glass windows and thinking about things, when suddenly I decided that if I could start selling cartoons to magazines, they'd let me quit high school.

I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.

The reality is, I've started multiple companies, so actually I'm probably more of a product/creative person than I am sales. Although I can do both.

I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.

A lot of coaches get involved in a lot of different things - car dealerships and restaurants and all kinds of things. I've never really done that.

All the businesses that I've been a part of throughout my fighting career have come out of a need.

It's good to have experience in other ventures and have other goals. Like acting, having businesses, starting from zero and making something grow.

I have seen the way a conglomerate works. My personal calling was in start-ups, so I built my own start-up.

In between acting, I'm still going to be doing modeling and different ventures.

I ran a hot-dog-and-soda stand at Little League, and I started a business planning parties in high school.

I am an entrepreneur, but not in the conventional sense. I have learnt business as time passed, but I do not have a B-school education.

I'm lucky because I have never been pigeonholed and the roles have kept on coming.

I started out with a carpet-cleaning business. Then I had a lunch wagon business, where you pull up and serve food. Then I had bars and then restaurants.

I always told myself I was more than a football player, so every off season, I pushed myself to go outside the box and get a little bit better off the field. I dabbled in many business adventures to gain more real world experience.

I've been a business person for 30 years. I started my own companies; I've invested in others.

I started selling corn dogs, ended up in the music industry. That's how it all started.

Almost any mistake you can make in running a company, I've probably made

I was working as hard as a human being could work. That tempo hasn't changed. I just have more diversity and more companies, and now I've got 33 companies so my dance card is full. Four kids and three grandkids, but I love that passionate lifestyle. I love constantly growing, I love seeing and feeling that you can have an impact. And gradually it went from just coaching to actually running businesses because I've had experiences that were life changing.

My music will mean something. I'll have my own production company. I'm doing my own movies. I have my own restaurant. I just wanna expand.