Peter Jones Quotes

I'm a school dropout. So, at the age of 16, I moved to Mumbai to try my luck on some business.

I started my first business at 14!

I started working at age thirteen. I'm a product of public schools, I'm a product of a public university. I started my first company when I was 21. I've subsequently never worked for anybody else. I started that first business when I was still in college.

I never knew anything other than wanting to be an entrepreneur. I tried my first business when I was 6 years old, and I started another business when I was 8. I don't think I knew anything besides that.

We must learn to lean upon ourselves; we must learn to plan and execute business enterprises of our own; we must learn to venture our pennies if we would gain dollars.

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.

I'd made enough made money by the time I was 12 to never work again, so it's not about a big pay check with me.

That's why I ended up leaving school - because it required so much time, and it was such an excellent idea. I figured I would regret not going full force with this idea. It seemed we could make something of it.

I don't have any great ambition to go out and make money. But I am still fascinated in starting up businesses and starting it in a way and running in a way that I want to do it.

I'd made enough money by the time I was 12 to never have to work again.

The heart of the entrepreneur can beat freely in anyone.

People don't understand this, but I started very young, and I became very, very successful at a very young age. By the time I was 26 years old, I was a multimillionaire. And I started with nothing. And I was on the road 10, 11 months a year.

When I finished school, I took my entire life savings - $5,000 - and invested it in a business. I was young. I was inexperienced. But I was an entrepreneur, and I was proud. And in six weeks, I was broke.

I stood up for what I believed in starting businesses.

I'm really a self-made businesswoman.

While still working for others, your goal at some point must be to carve out little areas that you can operate on your own, cultivating entrepreneurial skills.

I knew how to sell. I felt confident I could run a business. I was willing to outwork anyone. I wasn't afraid to live like a student on next to nothing. So that meant I had absolutely nothing to lose and everything to gain.

I did all kinds of things as a young person to try to make money. I had a chicken operation - I sold chickens. I can remember going to high school football games as a ten-year-old and gathering Coca-Cola bottles, 'cause you'd turn them in and get a nickel. I wanted not to remain idle.

I wasn't a good school pupil. I was interested in business.

After my first ad, I was flooded with offers, which I took up. Soon, I decided that it could be a lucrative business with a parallel college life.

I'd worked in music for years and built all these relationships, so I bought a camera, built a website, and decided to go for it.

I didn't have the patience to wait to take a degree before starting work, because I wanted to run my own business.

I had never created my own business before. I had always been the gun to hire... But I had to finally say, nobody is going to give me my dream job, so I better figure it out myself.

I had been an independent entrepreneur from the beginning, and I felt I could do it myself. I didn't want to get a job.