Kevin Plank Quotes

• There's an entrepreneur right now, scared to death, making excuses, saying, 'It's not the right time just yet.' There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance, and start your business.

  Kevin Plank

  Success, Business, Inspiration

  61 Copy quote

• Brand is not a product, that's for sure; it's not one item. It's an idea, it's a theory, it's a meaning, it's how you carry yourself. It's aspirational, it's inspirational.

  Kevin Plank

  Ideas, Theory, Brands

  "I Am American Business", www.cnbc.com. June 24, 2012.

  33 Copy quote

• One of our first customers asked me how big we want to be. I said I want to be really big. Later, it bothered me that I answered that way. Now I say I just want to be a great company.

  Kevin Plank

  Want, Way, Firsts

  41 Copy quote

• Motivation, passion, and focus have to come from the top.

  Kevin Plank

  Motivation, Passion, Focus

  19 Copy quote

• Great brands are like great stories. And every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. And our job is to make sure that every chapter of our stories makes sense to the one in front of it and make sense to the one after it. There is no such thing as an overnight success. You have to get up and put your work boots on every single day.

  Kevin Plank

  Jobs, Stories, Boots

  31 Copy quote

• I'm a big advocate of the power of positive thinking, particularly for small businesses.

  Kevin Plank

  Positive Thinking, Small Business, Bigs

  18 Copy quote

• The sports apparel industry was dominated by the big shoe companies. But there was a void in apparel and I decided to fill it.

  Kevin Plank

  Sports, Shoes, Void

  17 Copy quote

• Any self-respecting entrepreneur has borrowed money from their mother at some point.

  Kevin Plank

  Mother, Self, Entrepreneur

  17 Copy quote

• It's a fire, it's a passion to get out and to create and to innovate. And that I've always enjoyed and I've always been very proud of is that the people I've done business with, the people around me have always made money.

  Kevin Plank

  Passion, Fire, People

  "A $10 Business". "I Am American Business" Interview, www.cnbc.com. June 24, 2012.

  20 Copy quote

• I wake up in the morning and I think about one brand. I don't have enough time to wake up twice and think about two.

  Kevin Plank

  Morning, Thinking, Two

  19 Copy quote

• When you see most companies get big, they want to shout about all they've done. But the consumer wants to know: 'What have you done for me lately?'

  Kevin Plank

  Done, Want, Bigs

  19 Copy quote

• All we're trying to do is change how people think about fitness. And build Under Armour into the biggest brand in the entire land.

  Kevin Plank

  Thinking, Land, People

  15 Copy quote

• My first real business was bootlegging T-shirts - I was just a dumb kid. You go to a concert and pay $25 for a cotton T-shirt that says 'Rolling Stones,' 'Lollapalooza,' or whatever. On the outside they're 10 or 15 bucks. We were the guys selling them for 10 or 15 bucks.

  Kevin Plank

  Real, Kids, Guy

  14 Copy quote

• I was a general business major, which meant that in any business school and particularly at Smith School, which is a very good school, you do a lot of team projects. Well I was the guy who gave the presentations for the team projects.

  Kevin Plank

  Team, School, Guy

  "A $10 Business". "I Am American Business" Interview, www.cnbc.com. June 24, 2012.

  12 Copy quote

• Where can we take no the product, but the idea?

  Kevin Plank

  Ideas, Entrepreneur, Tough

  "Three Quotes to Help Entrepreneurs When Things Get Tough" by Patricia G. Greene, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2014.

  11 Copy quote

• As foreign as it would be for you to go running in regular shoes, I want it to be just as foreign for you not to work out in your Under Armour.

  Kevin Plank

  Running, Shoes, Work Out

  7 Copy quote

• I realized early on that I was pretty good at organizing. A lot of it was about control. While my friends were out getting hammered at concerts, I was making money. I am a control freak.

  Kevin Plank

  Freak, Making Money, Concerts

  9 Copy quote

• Best merchants are the ones who dictate cool, not those who try to predict it!

  Kevin Plank

  Trying, Merchants

  7 Copy quote

• We need to stop making wide-body seats on airplanes, stop accommodating that, because it's not healthy.

  Kevin Plank

  Airplane, Healthy, Needs

  7 Copy quote

• My love of horses began in College Park, with me and 10 friends on two couches and a keg of beer in the back of a truck, heading to Pimlico at 6 A.M. to mark our place in the middle of the Preakness infield, where we never saw a horse run.

  Kevin Plank

  Running, Horse, Beer

  8 Copy quote

You May Also Like:

Phil Knight

Sergey Brin

Mark Parker

Lindsey Vonn

Misty Copeland

Stephen Curry

Shani Davis

Michel Hazanavicius