Quotes About Owning A Business

#1. Owning a business is NOT about working your ass off for the sake of trying to squeeze out a living. It is NOT about making tons of money at the expense of losing tons of life. It IS about maximizing life, bettering your life and the lives of others, which, not so ironically, fattens your purse.

Mike Michalowicz

#2. Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Roth

#3. A lot of great fortunes in the world have been made by owning a single wonderful business. If you understand the business, you don't need to own very many of them.

Warren Buffett

#4. Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.

Jackson Browne

#5. The most important thing is to be proud of the work that you put into something, and put the ego aside.

Alicia Keys

#6. Every age had its losses, they said, even youth, which lost first childhood, then youth too. And all first things were vivid, including losses. "Just keep learning," the old woman said.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#7. So I'm leaving Sony, a free agent, owning half of Sony. I own half of Sony's Publishing. I'm leaving them, and they're very angry at me, because I just did good business, you know.

Michael Jackson

#8. You're better off owning 30 percent and having two amazing partners who compliment you and are equally as driven as you are than having 100 percent and only having one aspect of it, unless you're a super genius who is creative and business-minded at the same time.

Rob Dyrdek

#9. An Oxford degree or owning a successful business or a perfect looking body does NOT guarantee inner-happiness, peace of mind, self-love, and a loving relationship.

Maddy Malhotra

#10. Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives.

Jim Hightower

#11. If I used to ask myself, over a coffin: "What good did it do the occupant to be born?", I now put the same question about anyone alive.

Emil Cioran

#12. It's never to late- never to late to change your life,never to late to be happy

Jane Fonda

#13. The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when the human spirit is at its lowest ebb.

Russell Baker

#14. I have always wondered why more women did not look into owning their own funds. Granted, it is a high stress, high risk business, but it also offers high rewards and control.

Karen Finerman

#15. I made an enormous amount of money in the record business as a result of owning so much of what I was doing ... I owned all those albums and continued to own my catalog.

Lou Adler

#16. My best business decision was going into business for myself and owning the box my pretty face was on instead of just being the pretty face on the box. And my worst was letting other people run my business.

Kam Williams

#17. I wondered how he'd learned to push the words away, to drown them, to not feel them pounding against his head and his heart, begging to be spoken.

Amy Harmon

#18. Change like a tree
When it is winter
Don't complain or fear
Just wait for the spring
To bloom and sing

Debasish Mridha

#19. If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself-or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself.

Oprah Winfrey

#20. It is even harder to realize that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces a future extinction of endless cold or intolerable heat. The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it seems pointless.

Steven Weinberg

#21. It is very difficult to reconcile the American ideal of a sovereign people capable of owning and managing their own government with an inability to own and manage their own business.

Calvin Coolidge

#22. I made the best business decision at 14 when I decided to get into acting. The worst was owning 2 homes at the same time.

Tamala Jones

#23. The world is full of people who have dreams of playing at Carnegie Hall, of running a marathon, and of owning their own business. The difference between the people who make it across the finish line and everyone else is one simple thing: an action plan.

John Tesh

#24. You'd better have the technology knowledge. I really urge you not to think you can start a whole company and business with just ideas on paper, because you'll end up owning so few of those ideas.

Steve Wozniak

#25. To you, being rich might mean owning a goat farm in South Carolina. For your best friend, it might mean being able to start her own business selling wine over the Internet. Whatever the case, youre probably not motivated by the money itself, but by what the money could let you be and do.

J.D. Roth

#26. When you have twin four-year-olds, you are able to dance like a fool, often. And I do.

Neil Patrick Harris

#27. I heard a quote once in a documentary about a band that said you're better off owning everything 100 percent and selling 20,000 copies of an album than signing with a record company and selling a million copies. There has never been a truer statement about show business than that.

Bill Burr