Start Business Quotes

#1. was permitted to start business. Soon the royal partner ran up such huge debts on equity that the company went bankrupt. The Chinese partner was left with the bill, and could not leave Thailand until his family paid everyone off. He had been royally plundered.

Sterling Seagrave

#2. It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.

Edward Hopper

#3. I had long planned to start a foundation. I wanted to do something with long-range benefit to humanity. Starting a business and making a lot of money doesn't make for a fulfilling life.

Fred Kavli

#4. Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

Lee Iacocca

#5. School taught me how to do a 9-5 job rather than be a person who wants to start a business.

KSI

#6. That 95 per cent. fail of those who start in business upon their own account seems incredible, and yet such are said to be the statistics upon the subject.

Andrew Carnegie

#7. Everyone should be encouraged to start his own business, not just some rare breed that self-identifies as entrepreneurs.

Jason Fried

#8. When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date.

Wayne Rogers

#9. Very few entrepreneurs start their business on the back of market research. Instead, they have tremendous zeitgeist, honed by paying attention to where they are.

Margaret Heffernan

#10. Because I didn't go to drama school, I didn't start in the business with any toolbox apart from enthusiasm and instinct. I'd throw everything at a part and sometimes realise that I had hit my limits.

Hattie Morahan

#11. Failure to commit is as bad as failure to start.

David Hieatt

#12. A sure way to start your own business is to stay out of everyone else's.

Kathy McClary

#13. The industrial revolution that defined the first half of the 20 century marked the start of modern business, typified by high-volume, large-scale organizations. Mechanization created a culture of business derived from the capabilities and needs of the time.

Steven Sinofsky

#14. Those back-to-back experiences confirmed what I already knew: That I was a shitty-ass employee and I'd better start my own business.

Mark Cuban

#15. Everything is interconnected. The moment you take philosophy, psychology, religion and business and look at the underlying commonalities, that's when you start looking at business in a different way.

Jochen Zeitz

#16. I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.

Martha Stewart

#17. Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.

Natalie Massenet

#18. Do business with honesty irrespective of what happens, whatever happens thereafter is correct. But do not start any accounts (karma).

Dada Bhagwan

#19. There has never been a better time in the history of time than right now to start a business.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#20. Never start a business just to 'make money'. Start a business to make a difference.

Marie Forleo

#21. I always knew I wanted to start my own line. Nights and weekends, I would work on my business plan.

Chris Benz

#22. If you're a successful woman, chances are that you spend a ton of time working. You're probably on your email a lot, taking phone calls and going on regular business trips that don't involve your man. He can start to feel left out of a very important and very time-consuming part of your life.

Patti Stanger

#23. If someone shows promise in a trade, why not give them practical business advice, teach them how to handle money, show them the ways they can start their own business, and help them to become fully trained?

Erin Osborne

#24. Do it, document it, delegate it.

Michael McCafferty

#25. There is never a bad time to start a business - unless you want to start a mediocre one.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#26. Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry.

Mark Cuban

#27. I finally understood why so much monkey business happened in the backs of buses. Put us in close proximity, with wheels spinning under us, and nothing to do but wait, we're going to start thinking of lovely uses for our bodies. I don't care who you are.

Laura Anderson Kurk

#28. For your business to stand out and succeed, you have to put a primary focus on the social media space, go in big (halfway will not do), and do it better than most, right from the start.

Brian E. Boyd Sr.

#29. If you are an entrepreneur planning to start your own company, I can't think of a better place to begin than by operating your business by the Golden Rule. Make this a high priority; never make a decision that contradicts the Golden Rule.

Mary Kay Ash

#30. You know who a complicated tax code kills? The guy or gal trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home. So we've got to simplify our tax code.

Marco Rubio

#31. American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it.

Margaret Halsey

#32. I decided to start my own label because so many people with talent come to me wanting to know how they can get in the music business.

Mary J. Blige

#33. When all of your friends are getting pregnant, you start thinking about it. But for Amy and I, show business is our baby.

Will Arnett

#34. You will not be a success in every business, but if you don't start a business you will never be a success.

Debasish Mridha

#35. Well a lot of females complain about getting into the business, like men producers always wanna get (in bed) with them before, but it wasn't like that for me, I was good from start so I had no problems when it came to recording.

Lady Saw

#36. At the time we're stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to just about all of us. It's not until the second or third class reunion that we start realizing how absurd the whole thing was.

Stephen King

#37. If you have a business model that relies on customers being misinformed, you better start working on changing your business model.

Jeff Bezos

#38. You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

Jessamyn West

#39. There's not a chance we'll reach our full potential until we stop blaming each other and start practicing personal accountability.

John Miller

#40. 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

#41. Take control of who you report to, what you do, what you create. Or start a business on the side. Deliver some value, any value, to anybody, to somebody, and watch that value compound into a career.

James Altucher

#42. When I visit local communities, people often complain that they need the approval of several dozen government departments to get something done or to start a business, and people are quite frustrated about this.

Li Keqiang

#43. When you start out in this business, the Hall of Fame is not what you're thinking about. You think all you want to do is make it to the major leagues. That's your goal, and that's your ambition as a broadcaster, just as it is with playing.

Hank Greenwald

#44. No matter how long the preparation,
you will never feel ready to write an
exam, to start a business, to be parent
or even to die. Just go for it.

Moffat Machingura

#45. I can't help thinking if she - the director of a government agency - is this ignorant about what funding is available and where the money comes from - how often lower-level bureaucrats must give wrong answers when people are looking for help to start a business.

Matthew Lesko

#46. 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

#47. Detainee policy in this war is hard, it's complicated, but we must get it right. We would be better off as a nation if we could close Gitmo safely and start a new prison that he could use that the world would see as a better way to doing business.

Lindsey Graham

#48. The fact that you have started a small business doesn't mean you should be thinking small. Think BIG! Start Small! Expand your territories!

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#49. If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.

Fran Tarkenton

#50. Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.

Paul Ryan

#51. I want to start my own airplane business. I'm going to buy two Dakotas, paint them up in war colours and do, er, nostalgia trips to Arnhem - you know, where the old paratroopers used to go - and charge them about 20 quid a time.

Gary Numan

#52. I think we can be the very best place to start a business, to grow a business, to invent a new technology, to change the world, to change the country. But we've got a lot of work to deliver a new California to the people of California.

Meg Whitman

#53. Usually when there are a lot of layoffs, like in 2008 and 2009, business creation tends to spike. But that didn't happen right away, partly because people trying to start a business couldn't get credit.

Brad D. Smith

#54. If there's something I can do and I feel it should be done, I just want to do it. I just don't want to leave it undone because I'll sit back and say, why didn't I do that? Why didn't I start that business?

Robert Johnson

#55. It's not until you become seriously ill and you nearly die and you're at home for 6 months, that you suddenly stop to realize that this isn't the way I intended it to be in the beginning. Everything that you've done falls away and start wondering why you went through all that rock business stuff.

Chris Rea

#56. Look at your business and the activities that you undertake. Then, start to think about not just your economic concerns, but about social and environmental impacts that businesses have.

Jerry Greenfield

#57. When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there's less and less time for songwriting.

Josh Turner

#58. If you can't develop a lot of paying customers for your product, you don't really have a business to build.

Timothy Freriks

#59. I know that Montana is the greatest place in the world to raise a family, to start and grow a business. You know it, and I know it and now we will tell the world.

Brian Schweitzer

#60. Passion
it's the driving force that you just can't ignore. It's what will make your new adventure seem more like fun, than work. It's the difference between wanting to start a business and craving it.

Mac Anderson

#61. If I were asked to give the best idea of which I am capable, it would be that we should get out of the junk business and then start laying up treasures in heaven.

Sterling W. Sill

#62. Why climb the corporate ladder when you can build an elevator in your own building?

Joshua E. Leyenhorst

#63. Have you ever been tempted to start your own business- First read this cautionary tale, especially if you think your ideas come from God.

Phil Vischer

#64. With the business growing, work has become a little more detached from my life. But in the start, before I had a separate studio and a team, everything happened in my house and it was hard to separate the two.

Garance Dore

#65. I didn't start the business to make a pile of money. I did it to preserve myself for old age.

Elrey Borge Jeppesen

#66. Thomas sniffed. "Don't let's start with all that." "I am not starting anything! You yourself started this business!" "Enough, Kam. I am warning you." "You don't warn me when I'm warning you!

Mira Jacob

#67. I think if you're in this business, like any high-stakes business, the highs and lows can make you a manic-depressive person, if you weren't that way to start with. 'Cause it's just so crazy on your psyche. A lot of it has to do with people thinking they're greater than someone else.

Joan Cusack

#68. Intake is everything. And that is, that's where you start to realize your ego has no business in our business. Once you think you know everything, it's only a matter of time. So I will forever remain a student.

Pharrell Williams

#69. It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away.

Jim Cooper

#70. If you set a goal of becoming an expert in your business, you would immediately start doing all kinds of things you don't do now.

Geoff Colvin

#71. I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.

Gaby Hoffmann

#72. I knew that if I had gone to the media or a publisher saying that I wanted my books and stories to be published to help other women start their own business~ that I would be rejected by them.
I know this because it has already happened to me many times.

Nina Montgomery

#73. From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ... it needs no other passport than fun.

Bertolt Brecht

#74. The music business would be much better, for the youth and the kids, if they start hiring employees that understand the kids.

Suge Knight

#75. Business executives need to start by spelling out and communicating their values. Then they need to lead by example. This means getting rid of the bad apples and declining opportunities that bring instant wealth at the cost of selling one's soul.

Vivek Wadhwa

#76. That's what the Affordable Care Act is all about. It's about filling the gaps in employer-based care so that when we lose a job, or go back to school, or start that new business, we'll still have coverage.

Barack Obama

#77. The nature of the business is that, once you start proving yourself and the more roles you get, the more exciting the roles that you're able to go out and do auditions for, or that you're being offered, get. You have more choices.

Malin Akerman

#78. Did you know that Kodak actually invented the digital camera that ultimately put it out of business? Kodak had the patents and a head start, but ignored all that.

Peter Diamandis

#79. When I was 9 years old, I really wanted to be in the show business. I really wanted to be an artist. I would grab a wooden spoon and I would start singing, even if it was for my uncles and my aunts. And I would just sing any lah-lah song.

Ricky Martin

#80. Everyone told me it was a really stupid idea to start my own hedge fund right out of business school,' says Ackman of the idea. 'That's how I knew that it was a good idea.

Maneet Ahuja

#81. If I grew up with a lot of money, where everything was just handed to me, I feel like those are the people that, a lot of time, grow up to do worse things. Or they'll start in a business really young, like eight or something, through all their schooling.

Justin Bieber

#82. Too many start up business fail simply because their owners continue to think and act like employees.

Michael LeBoeuf

#83. I can honestly say that TOMS is my future. I mean I have no desire to start any other company for as long as I live because this is the perfect blend of business and philanthropy to me.

Blake Mycoskie

#84. Typically the person who raises the money, or puts up the money to start the business, owns the lion's share of the business. So learn how to sell and keep learning. It will usually be your own fear that you have to overcome.

Robert Kiyosaki

#85. I knew that I wanted to start my own business. I knew that I wanted to work for myself. I was no stranger to the word no. You just have to keep going.

Sara Blakely

#86. You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

Steve Jobs

#87. If you're an over thinker or try to anticipate every barrier-before beginning, ask yourself, if I had to accomplish this project in three steps or less, what would they be?

Lisa A. Mininni

#88. I was one of those guys who never wanted to start their own business. I never saw myself as a leader. I saw myself as a great No. 2.

Robert Herjavec

#89. As America's head coach, President Obama needs to make some big and smart adjustments to jump-start economic growth and business investment, stimulate job creation, and get wages up for ordinary Americans.

Harold Ford Jr.

#90. Embrace your fire - even in hard times. A down economy can actually be a great time to start a business.

Jean Chatzky

#91. Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.

Bobby Darin

#92. How do you make a small fortune in the wine business? Start with a large fortune and buy a winery.

Kevin Zraly

#93. A brand is a story. And you have to tell it well. The good news in this connected world great stories travel fast. And, these days, they travel for free. So there has never been a better time or a cheaper time to start something.

David Hieatt

#94. Jess, I've got no business judging anyone. But I can offer you some advice if you don't mind.
"Sure." Though my palms start to sweat anticipating what he might say.
"Never ask someone to tell you who you are. You tell them.

Erin McCarthy

#95. If you're a global company you are going to have jobs overseas. The reality is if we start taxing those jobs at a rate that makes them noncompetitive in those markets, the reality is that we're going to lose business.

Anne M. Mulcahy

#96. But it doesn't have to be this way. We can do things better. We need to stop doing business as usual and start focusing on end-to-end quality. Security needs to be built in from the start - not slapped on after the fact.

Gene Spafford

#97. I tell you what Hispanics in Virginia tell me they want. They want access to the American dream. That's why they come here to Virginia and to America, so they want more opportunities to start small business, better schools.

Bob McDonnell

#98. I had worked for others for many years and didn't like the idea of someone else holding my future in their hands; it was time to do something on my own.- Jerri Graham, Nothin' But Granola

Holly Hurd

#99. What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign.

Dennis Miller

#100. We ought to start running the government like a private-sector business. I have that ability as CEO of our companies. I have line item vetoes, and if I didn't, we'd probably be out of business by now.

John Raese