Kevin Harrington Quotes

Nothing turns off an investor more than when an entrepreneur comes in with a ridiculous valuation.

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• I find it difficult to turn down an entrepreneur who's both passionate and knowledgeable about their space.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Space
  • Down
  • Entrepreneur

• How I see my career is very much as an entrepreneur in the field of philanthropy.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Career
  • Entrepreneur
  • Philanthropy

• My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Business
  • Job
  • Son

• Konosuke Matsushita was a visionary entrepreneur. He started working very young as a teenager, and he eventually created Panasonic to become a truly global company.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Young
  • Company
  • Teenager

• No entrepreneur ever publicly admits to bribing, but few dare to openly claim they don't, either.

  

  Wang Shi
  • Entrepreneur
  • Dare
  • Ever

• For an entrepreneur with 'improbable' and 'impossible' dreams, the alleged stability that comes from getting 'a real job' is nothing but a sign of slavery.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Real
  • Job
  • Dreams

• You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Important
  • Family
  • Business

• I'm an entrepreneur first and a wine critic second.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • First
  • Wine
  • Entrepreneur

• Being an entrepreneur does, of course, give you greater freedom than someone who is tied to a fixed work schedule, but you'd be mistaken to think that you're going to have it easier than your 9-5 counterparts.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Work
  • Think
  • Freedom

• I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.

  

  Jack London
  • World
  • Live

• Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Entrepreneur
  • Caring

• Becoming an entrepreneur was the furthest thing from my mind. I actually had an identity crisis when I realized I had become one.

  

  Anne Taintor
  • Mind
  • Identity
  • Entrepreneur

• I've always enjoyed shopping and loved fashion, but my interest as an entrepreneur was definitely more about the opportunities I saw to change the future of retail. My sister was a buyer in New York, and she knew my body and my style, and she could find me things I loved. I thought, 'What if everybody had access to this kind of experience?'

  

  Katrina Lake
  • She
  • Experience
  • Future

• It's now arguably over-written about and over-discussed how hard it is to be an entrepreneur. Of course it's hard. So is being a parent. Let's stop over-congratulating ourselves and let's just do our work.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • Work
  • Stop
  • Entrepreneur

• Life, especially the life of an early-stage entrepreneur, is full of gigantic ups and downs. Make sure you don't let yourself get too high or too low. It's a marathon, and you just have to keep your legs moving at a steady pace.

  

  Chieh Huang
  • Life
  • High
  • Moving

• I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • Up

• I think I became an entrepreneur because I have my way of doing business... to do that, you have to have your own company. But if you have your own company, you're an outsider in the Japanese business world. It's difficult. But that's life.

  

  Masayoshi Son
  • Life
  • World
  • Business

• I have had some great successes and great failures. I think every entrepreneur has. I try to learn from all of them.

  

  Kevin O'Leary
  • Great
  • Entrepreneur

• If the investors themselves are not sophisticated, if they themselves are not putting a lot of their own money to work, if they themselves don't understand the continuum of capital and how different parts of the capital structures react differently, then they're basically worthless. They're not going to give great advice to these entrepreneurs who then need it. So that is unfortunately the cycle we're in and we have to break the cycle.

  

  Chamath Palihapitiya
  • Different
  • Advice
  • Break

• Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Truth
  • Broken

• Marvin Gaye was the ultimate ladies' man and a big part of that was the way he dressed. If you're having trouble getting ladies, step your suit game up and see the difference. Walk into a bar in a tailored suit and I guarantee every girl will check you out.

  

  Andrew Mayer Cohen
  • Up
  • Game
  • Girl

• During my many years in international business and public life, I have had the good fortune of sitting down for lunch with people with whom I completely disagreed, in practice and principle: Soviet communists, heads of state from various unsavory regimes, benighted religious figures, corrupt business leaders.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I always get a kick out of playing Dog Days. Mainly because we wrote it together.

  

  Isabella Summers Florence and the Machine
  • Playing
  • Wrote
  • Kick

• Nothing turns off an investor more than when an entrepreneur comes in with a ridiculous valuation.

  

  Kevin Harrington
  • Entrepreneur