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
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.
trying merchants
Best merchants are the ones who dictate cool, not those who try to predict it!
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.
airplane healthy body
We need to stop making wide-body seats on airplanes, stop accommodating that, because it's not healthy.
running shoes work-out
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.
thinking land people
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.
running horse beer
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.
ideas entrepreneur tough
Where can we take no the product, but the idea?
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.
morning thinking two
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.
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.