Kevin Plank
Kevin Plank
Kevin A. Plankis an American businessman, CEO and founder of Under Armour, a manufacturer of sports performance apparel, footwear and accessories, based in Baltimore...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth13 August 1972
CountryUnited States of America
team school guy
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.
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You're convincing these big, tough football players to wear what was essentially women's lingerie. There was a little bit of a Jedi mind trick that needed to take place. The product really spoke for itself once guys felt it and touched it.
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Randy Edsall is a good, strong, decent man who is working his tail off on behalf of the University of Maryland. And there are more people that want to spend their days burning things down than building it up. At least just stop rooting against him. You know, give the guy a chance.
real kids guy
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.
trying merchants
Best merchants are the ones who dictate cool, not those who try to predict it!
airplane healthy body
We need to stop making wide-body seats on airplanes, stop accommodating that, because it's not healthy.
freak making-money concerts
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.
ideas entrepreneur tough
Where can we take no the product, but the idea?
passion fire people
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.
sports shoes void
The sports apparel industry was dominated by the big shoe companies. But there was a void in apparel and I decided to fill it.
motivation passion focus
Motivation, passion, and focus have to come from the top.
positive-thinking small-business bigs
I'm a big advocate of the power of positive thinking, particularly for small businesses.
mother self entrepreneur
Any self-respecting entrepreneur has borrowed money from their mother at some point.
jobs stories boots
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.