Art Quote by Steve Ells

After a two-year stint at Stars, I wanted to start my own full-service restaurant, but I didn't have the funds to do so, so…

— Steve Ells

I started a shoe-shine business, worked at the grain elevator, and as a chimney sweep, paid my way through college and then earned an…

— Doug Burgum

I went to art school for about a year. I was born and raised in the Willamette Valley in Oregon into a middle-class family…

— Mike Royer

I have no doubt that my M.B.A. from New York University's Stern School of Business was one of the best investments I ever made.…

— Vivek Wadhwa

My sophomore year at high school, I spent $300 I had earned working at After School Matters for my first studio session. For a…

— Ravyn Lenae

Educational equity was my way of giving my salary. It's not $10 million or anything. I'm not going to act like I'm the first…

— Chris Long

I actually almost made a million dollars while in high school.

— Nathan Blecharczyk

I've been entrepreneurial since middle school. I was always arranging bake sales, dances and school trips to raise money for the Dalton School.

— Dylan Lauren

I was going to get a degree in economics and be a teacher. But I couldn't afford to pay for the education. So I…

— Stephen Pagliuca

I started Verite on savings from three years working at Applebee's in Times Square. I was a ridiculously good waitress. I was making more…

— Verite

I worked in restaurants, bars, record stores; I did anything and everything to pay my way through university and LAMDA.

— Tom Riley

Both my parents were entrepreneurs and built a nice leisure business. But money was tight when I was growing up.

— Deborah Meaden