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Dorm Quotes

Where big ideas and early risks both began.

These dorm quotes recall the small spaces where entrepreneurial ideas and early creative projects took shape during college years. See our College quotes for more on that stage of life.

I thought I was Superman until I experienced that life-changing anaphylactic shock. I was eating lunch and gobbled down a couple of bowls of gumbo. Then, 15 minutes later, I'm in my dorm room resting up. My eyes started itching...

Quotes by Adrian Peterson

Unfortunately, like, homework and school wasn't the thing that I was obsessing over. It was, you know, music and making music and how to like - and drum machines. And we met Rick Rubin, and Rick Rubin had a drum...

Quotes by Ad-Rock

The stereotypical successful entrepreneur is Mark Zuckerberg - the young college dropout who dreamed up a crazy idea while in his dorm room.

Quotes by Vivek Wadhwa

As many know, and especially those who may have young sons or daughters at colleges or universities, the last thing you want to hear is a call that perhaps one of your children was injured or, even worse, lost their...

Quotes by Vito Fossella

Back Quotes

I played in a couple of really crummy bands, including one in the dorm I was in at MIT, for a year or two.

Quotes by Tom Scholz

In the late 1990s, I wrote a book from the point of view of a young black woman who has barricaded herself in her college dorm room, pursued by a man, either real or imagined, who finally materializes as the...

Quotes by Susan Shreve

If you go to Wall Street, there is someone from Harvard, Stanford, etc, who relate to each other by the batch they studied in, the dorm they lived in, and so on.

Quotes by Shiv Nadar

I've been a DJ, janitor, ditch digger, waitress, computer instructor, programmer, mechanic, web developer, clerk, manager, marketing director, tour guide and dorm manager, among other things.

Quotes by Sherrilyn Kenyon

In the early days, I loved Facebook. I loved being able to keep tabs on hundreds of college classmates all at once, of being able to tag all my dorm mates in the photos we took on our garbage 7...

Quotes by Sarah Jeong

College Quotes

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.

Quotes by Sam Yagan

From its humble origins in college dorm rooms, social media has quietly crept into the boardroom.

Quotes by Ryan Holmes

My mother worked as a maid, cleaning the fraternity dorm of the local college.

Quotes by Roger Ross Williams

When I went to college is really when it became my own. I had to get up out of that dorm room and go to church, go to mass on Sunday. That's when I took ownership of my faith.

Quotes by Philip Rivers

I picked ducks in a tub in my dorm room. I'd hang deer in the doorway between the bedroom and the little living room in our little apartment there, and I'd skin my deer, and all the guts would go...

Quotes by Phil Robertson

Crazy Quotes

SiriusXM has had my back ever since day one when I was making remixes in my dorm room at university, and it means a lot that they're supporting my music as I prepare to release my debut album, 'Cloud Nine.'

Quotes by Kygo

When my father became vice president, I was a sophomore in high school. I'd do things like go on a run with my soccer team and purposely dodge the security van. Then my parents compromised with the Secret Service when...

Quotes by Kristin Gore

I set up my own trading center in my Cabot dorm room... with my computer, my fax machine, and my telephone.

Quotes by Kenneth C. Griffin

You don't need equipment of any kind to get a good workout in. In fact, you can get a good workout in the smallest of spaces, from a dorm room, to a studio apartment to a hotel room.

Quotes by Harley Pasternak

I wrote this script in 2003, when I was a humble college student, sitting in my boxers and writing in my dorm room. And I came up with the idea of writing an action-based 'Snow White,' with this kind of...

Quotes by Evan Daugherty

Doing Quotes

The mistake isn't releasing something bad. The mistake is to launch it and get PR people involved. You don't want people to start amping up expectations for an early version of your product. The best entrepreneurship happens in low-stakes environments...

Quotes by Eric Ries

Frequently Asked Questions

What kinds of stories do these dorm quotes tell?
They range from an entrepreneur's origin story sketched out in a dorm room to a student setting up a trading setup, plus a band that got its start there too.
Is the dorm always shown as a place of opportunity?
Not entirely. One quote reflects a parent's worry about a child being away at college, showing dorm life also carries real anxiety for families.
Do any quotes mention a well-known tech founder?
Yes, one references the familiar image of a college dropout dreaming up a company idea from a dorm room, a story often repeated in tech culture.
Is music a theme in these dorm quotes?
Yes, one speaker recalls playing in a rough early band during their dorm years at college, tying the space to creative beginnings as well as business ones.
How does this topic connect to college life more broadly?
For a wider view of that stage of life, see our College quotes, which cover more than just dorm-specific memories.

From a famous tech founder's origin story to a parent's worry about a child away at school, dorm life shows up from several angles. Read on with our Back or Crazy quotes.