Kevin Plank Quotes

I have a mother who never took no for an answer when it came to her creative pursuits. She started a hair salon in her spare bedroom and four years later had 30 employees.

Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand.

It is the creative and enterprising spirit of people that is indispensable. Everything else is supplemental.

Business people have been made into these rock stars because they've made a lot of money.

Who's more likely to succeed - someone with high skill and no ambition, or no skill and high ambition? If you're an entrepreneur, you can hire as many skilled people for your business as you want.

I think entrepreneurs are born and not created, and so I think you see a lot of similarities among entrepreneurs in different parts of the world. Their backdrop may be very different, but their drive to create a business and to create jobs remains very much the same, whether it's in Silicon Valley or Kandahar or Kabul.

Necessity, n. The mother of invention. Profit is the father.

One of our things is that money follows; it does not lead. So we want people that are fired up and passionate about their mission... and people that aren't so married to spreadsheets and thinking that kind of voodoo controls the future. Because it doesn't.

I think motivation and drive, coupled with raw talent, help make founders successful.

I've always been an entrepreneur, but it's never been about the money. I like a challenge, the harder the better.

I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I'm their hero.

A lot of drive is innate, self-perpetuated, reinforced energy. As a kid, I could always sell anything I could get my hands on - from newspapers to lemonade to 'TV Guide.' I knew how to make a presentation.

I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.

The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.

Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'

Everywhere I go, I always look for creative entrepreneurs, whether it's artisans and craftsmen, small farmers and gardeners, or restaurateurs who use fresh, locally sourced ingredients. I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.

The heart of the entrepreneur can beat freely in anyone.

Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a business.

I was once asked if a big business man ever reached his objective. I replied that if a man ever reached his objective he was not a big business man.

I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.

Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.

There's very little substitute in the business world for making money.

Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.

It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up.

I've never really thought of myself as an entrepreneur. I think of an entrepreneur as someone who wants to make a lot of money. That has never been at the top of my list.