Quotes About Entrepreneurship

I know how to finance something. It's easier today because, as you're more successful, everybody wants to do deals with you. But even in the beginning, when I took Landry's public, I owned 100 percent of it. I never had investors or anything. I was just always able to find a way to do it.

Around the world, it is much more difficult for women than for men to run a successful business. Even when laws are not explicitly biased against them, companies owned and operated by women often face discrimination every step of the way, from obtaining finance to finding customers.

We owned the mixtape game, and every mixtape we put out was like an album.

Where I live, there are a lot of businesses owned by Ethiopians and Eritreans. They're the new immigrants, the new Greeks - what my people did. The next generation of these people will probably be college graduates. That's how it works, right there in front of your eyes.

I owned a couple different businesses.

I'm a business owner.

The best thing about being a business owner is that you get to run your own schedule.

I'm excited about being an owner, it's got my competitive juices going. I'm scared, but excited as well.

I now have 10-year-olds asking me about how to become successful, how to become a business owner, which is crazy - at 10 I was trying to figure out which Barbie I wanted.

It feels good being a restaurant owner because it's part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.

It would be impossible for me to say when the idea of becoming an owner first came to me. Probably it was a gradual process. The first time the matter was brought to my attention in a concrete form, however, was when Charles Murphy was selling out his controlling interest in the Chicago Cubs.

It's tough, you know: I'm a chef first, and a restaurant owner, way before I was ever on Food Network, and it's a tough business.

The importance of inclusive behavior was modeled for me early in life. I have many childhood memories of my mother - an entrepreneur and business owner - drawing people to herself and inspiring them with the genuineness of her interest in them.

Certain athletes show themselves as marketable, and the UFC gets behind them; they help push them. I'm a husband, a father of four, a gym owner, an actor, an analyst, a stuntman, a Christian - every avenue you can take it, I have those layers.

Your first job, as an owner and an entrepreneur, has to be to understand how the business is going to actually work.

I've always been obsessed with marketing and media. I always wanted to be a business brand owner. I wanted to create things.

The most successful entrepreneurs tell you they have a great team. Lots of small-business owners let ego get in the way. Many people helped me along the way. You've got to remember the people who were loyal to you, and don't forget them when you become successful.

Franchises are independently owned and operated businesses whose owners are responsible for their operations.

The kind of work you do, when you do it, how much of it there is, and who you delegate it to are often the cause of the quasi-schizophrenic behavior seen in many business owners and entrepreneurs.

Too many bar owners built a bar for themselves... when they should have built what their market and demographic demands!

Business owners are responsible for themselves.

We think the ownership culture is very important, so we like to invest in businesses whose leaders are also owners.

I don't want to help brand someone else and not have equity or ownership in that company.

I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.