I started my first company when I was 18 and learned by trial through fire, having no formal education or entrepreneurial experience.
‐‐ Rob Dyrdek
I started my first company when I was in my college dorm as a senior with two of my really good friends. We started a company that became SparkNotes.com. You know CliffsNotes? SparkNotes is a modern-day version of that.
‐‐ Sam Yagan
I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.
‐‐ Ned Beauman
I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs.
‐‐ Sophie Ellis-Bextor
I started my own business because my parents had no dowry for me, and I was worried. I ran it from their Martha Vineyard's summer house. I baby-sat for a 14-year-old boy all summer and was giving him time-outs, even though I was two years younger than him.
‐‐ Chelsea Handler
I started my own class for people like me who can't find any place else to go.
‐‐ Richard Simmons
I started my own little carpet and upholstery cleaning business. I've done it for 20 years. I live well.
‐‐ Tommy Kirk
I started my own magazine with drawings, commentary, news, film reviews and drawings.
‐‐ Carlos Fuentes
I started my own martial arts school at 16. And by the time I was 21, I had three different schools.
‐‐ Katheryn Winnick
I started my own Pies Descalzos/Barefoot Foundation when I was 18. We provide education to vulnerable children in Colombia and other developing countries. I am an avid believer that education - and especially early childhood development - is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty.
‐‐ Shakira
I started my own record label.
‐‐ Tom Felton
I started my political career facing lynch mobs.
‐‐ Bob Filner
I started my scientific work by putting forward a hypothesis on the arrangement of atoms in nitrogen-containing molecules.
‐‐ Alfred Werner
I started my second company in 1999. BodyMedia was set up to take advantage of the future of wearables - sensors and computing worn on our bodies in any and all ways that could make our lives better.
‐‐ Astro Teller
I started my teenage years singing in churches across America, and finally wound up on a big stage.
‐‐ Amy Grant
I started my Twitter account for selfish reasons: I wanted to have a place to post updates on my book signing tour and stuff like that. I never realized that I'd have so much fun tweeting. It's become the deleted scenes for my DVD of columns and podcasts.
‐‐ Bill Simmons
I started my YouTube channel when I was 13. At the time, I was being bullied by a few people who I used to be very close to. I felt very alone and unmotivated. After discovering the beauty community, I decided it would be a great way to express myself and use it as an outlet to be who I am.
‐‐ Bethany Mota
I started NetSuite. NetSuite was my idea. I called up Evan Goldberg and said, 'We're going to do ERP on the Internet, software-as-a-service.' Six months later Marc Benioff, finding out what NetSuite was doing, and kind of copied it.
‐‐ Larry Ellison
I started noticing how stained the pavements are in London. The pavements in Beverly Hills aren't used; in London, they're used for everything. It doesn't matter how much they're cleaned, they still reflect light.
‐‐ Julie Christie
I started, obviously, doing theater, and I always thought that I would; in a way, I always thought that I'd be a theater actor. When I was starting out, I didn't really plan on making films, actually.
‐‐ Chiwetel Ejiofor
I started off as a director, so when I see other actors directing, it gives me hope that maybe they'll put me into that position at some point, too.
‐‐ Niall Matter
I started off as a graffiti artist in the South Bronx. My tag name was 'Loco' because I would go crazy and tag anywhere I wanted, in the weirdest places.
‐‐ Swizz Beatz
I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day.
‐‐ Ryan Murphy
I started off as a juggler. I used to do a half-hour show on the weekends to make money as a kid. Then I went to Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 to the international jugglers competition junior division and came second. So that was my first job, being a juggler.
‐‐ Patrick Dempsey
I started off as a model and struggled for some time until I got a break as an actress. I was too stubborn to let go and was sure I was in the right place at the right time. I just fought and I think that's how I am where I am today.
‐‐ Natasha Henstridge
I started off as a rapper from Thunder Bay, Ontario, believe it or not. There was a little group of 10 or 12 of us that would get together and copy each other's cassettes. So I was a rapper first, and it was that music that got me into this great entertainment world and got me out of Thunder Bay.
‐‐ Kevin Durand
I started off as a 'Star Trek' fan, and to be able to work on the series was a great honor.
‐‐ Manny Coto
I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.
‐‐ Skitch Henderson
I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor.
‐‐ Alessandro Nivola
I started off as an Australian model. I had so many knockbacks, having short hair and being rejected, and I always thought: I'm never gonna get to where I want to get unless I start looking more feminine.
‐‐ Ruby Rose
I started off as many fathers do. I enjoyed the good bits, but I was wary of the responsibility. But now I love being a dad.
‐‐ Noel Gallagher
I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics.
‐‐ Mickey Spillane
I started off at the Second City in Chicago... It's an improvisational theater that ostensibly does social and political satire, but when I was there, we generally didn't. We did character work, and we did just the silliest things we could think of. We weren't all that concerned with, you know, changing the world through mime.
‐‐ Stephen Colbert
I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.
‐‐ Kara Lindsay
I started off doing fiction in 1993. It didn't occur to me to do nonfiction because it wasn't a thing yet. So I was bumbling around, writing short stories, and then I took a nonfiction workshop, and I realized that this was what I was supposed to do.
‐‐ Meghan Daum
I started off doing indie comics that I wrote and drew myself. I was doing those for ten years before I started to work for DC. The first book that I wrote for DC was for another artist. I did some backups in 'Adventure Comics' years ago starring The Atom. That's the first time that I ever wrote for another artist.
‐‐ Jeff Lemire
I started off doing live TV, so I kind of learnt that if I get myself into trouble, I get myself out of it.
‐‐ Cat Deeley
I started off first doing a TV series called 'Boston Common.' That was my first big job, and then I went on to do another half hour comedy show, and that was with Tom Arnold, called 'The Tom Show.'
‐‐ Tasha Smith
I started off from a very early age listening to music - all the usual cheesy stuff that little kids like.
‐‐ Iwan Rheon
I started off in 1993 with one lorry. I wasn't one of those guys buying a business and gearing it up.
‐‐ Sean Quinn
I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials.
‐‐ Devon Sawa
I started off in drama, and there are so many women that I admire. Women in this industry are gladiators. Cicely Tyson, Viola Davis, Taraji Henson, Regina Hall, Regina King.
‐‐ Bresha Webb
I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene.
‐‐ Peter Porter
I started off in musical theater, yeah. It was one of my first jobs; it was in Spring Awakening in London, which was amazing.
‐‐ Jamie Blackley
I started off in radio, then made little films for Granada. I applied for a job at 'Weekend World,' and they turned me down; I'd also applied to the Foreign Office, which accepted me.
‐‐ Jonathan Powell
I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens.
‐‐ Laurell K. Hamilton
I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.
‐‐ Tim Roth
I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.
‐‐ Alvin Lee
I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
‐‐ Florence Welch