Entrepreneurship & Business: Entrepreneur Quotes

"I didn't want to wait around for some business entity to come around and give me money and tell me what to do. We just started releasing records as best we could"

Greg Ginn, Musician

"As a former small business owner, I recognize both the important role small businesses play in our economy and the broad universe of challenges that small business owners face in trying to make ends meet"

Sue Kelly, Politician

"'Cause I can make more money going in, and doing my recordings and selling them through my entities that I have, rather than going to a record co., and them release a record and pay me 5 percent of what they make off it"

Mickey Gilley, Musician

"HAG Records, is a company that I've owned. I've had a couple of gospel releases on it. We developed a pretty good distribution setup there and we do have something to use in case they don't want to sign us"

Merle Haggard, Musician

"But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees"

Erno Rubik, Inventor

"The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their eventual downfall. Don't blame others for your own inadequacies"

Greg Ginn, Musician

"His feeling was the name Walt Disney represented all of us. Walt was hanging by his teeth financially, and really, I think he was for most of his career. Not at all like today"

Marc Davis, Artist

"The ranch was raw land when I bought it and, for better or worse, I have designed every aspect of it, from the corrals, the arena, to the barn, to the house"

Janine Turner, Actress

"My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing school; we did, and it prospered"

Gene Kelly, Actor

"The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show"

Casey Kasem, Actor

"I thought, if I went into business I'd be able to control my own destiny"

Tommy Hilfiger, Designer

"I looked at my competitors and I thought that, if they could do it, I could do it. And if, they are popular and doing well, I could compete with them"

Tommy Hilfiger, Designer

"I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to build some kind of lifestyle brand that was preppy and cool"

Tommy Hilfiger, Designer

"Having secured my Indian actors, I started for Baltimore, where I organized my combination, and which was the largest troupe I had yet had on the road"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"We are really living the American dream, to be a successful brand in the States and in Europe and to steep ourselves in our heritage. But we do it with a sense of humor. We don't take ourselves too seriously in fashion"

Tommy Hilfiger, Designer

"I'm not just a businessman, I'm a visionary. I see things that others don't, and I'm not afraid to take risks"

Puff Daddy, Musician

"And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business"

Pamela Anderson, Actress

"During the early 1960s, I decided to supplement research support for quantitative economic studies at Pennsylvania by selling econometric forecasts to private and public sector buyers"

Lawrence R. Klein, Economist

"Before, being a model, it was just a job, and I was making fun of it. But today, I take my career more seriously. The fact that a reader may buy an Armani item because she'd seen it on me in a magazine is very important to me. So much so that I intend to launch my own label"

Milla Jovovich, Model

"Our tax policies, the tax relief and reform we passed in 2003 and 2005, helped get government out of the way of America's entrepreneurs, and our unemployment rate is now lower than it was in the 1970s, the 1980s, and the 1990s"

Marsha Blackburn, Politician

"We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated"

Henry Bessemer, Scientist

"I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands"

Gary Wright, Musician

"All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work"

Helena Rubinstein, Businessman

"Yes, I backed the hula hoop. And I had a lot of other people come to me with ideas that turned out well"

Art Linkletter, Journalist

"But what we're determined to do, and what the reforms will do, is to make sure this system goes back to its core purpose of taking the savings of Americans, and from investors around the world and allocating those to people with an idea, not just the largest companies in the country, but to small businesses with an idea and a plan for growing"

Timothy Geithner, Public Servant

"Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government - and yet the Small Business Administration has failed in their promise to women business owners"

Ruben Hinojosa, Politician

"I created a production company. Right now I am so happy in my work"

Marla Maples, Actress

"I was very lucky. I started my own commercial company!"

Richard Donner, Director

"I fear this little episode does not speak very favourably for my business capacity in those early days, for I certainly ought to have made much more than I did by this really important invention"

Henry Bessemer, Scientist

"If you look at the fact that the best chance we have for a good economy is the private sector. The government cannot create jobs. If the government could create jobs, then Communism would have worked. But didn't work. So what we have to do is allow the private sector and the entrepreneurial spirit to lead us back to a job-filled recovery"

Tim Scott, Politician

"So you get kind of addicted to a revenue stream, and then all of a sudden it goes away, now the problem is worse than it was before"

Craig Benson, Politician

"I majored in fashion design in school, and I have always wanted to design my own line of clothing, jewelry, and stuff like that; so this was just a step for me in that direction"

Diana Ross, Actress

"Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas"

Charles Fillmore, Educator

"It's always been a dream to have my own sunglass line, and I'm so excited to be able to finally offer it to my fans!"

Nicole Polizzi, Celebrity

"I'm trying to build an empire, because after this, I cannot get a normal job"

Nicole Polizzi, Celebrity

"I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards, but that's not the case. Sure, my parents were generous; I got a nice car at 16, but at 18 I was cut off. I've worked really hard. I opened the store myself"

Kim Kardashian, Celebrity

"All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that's it"

Thomas Lennon, Actor

"That's a tough question; I've been acting since I was 10. My dad was an entrepreneur, so I guess something along those lines. I wouldn't want a 9-5 job"

Will Estes, Actor

"As a member of the House Committee on Small Business and because of my own experience as a small business owner, I am appreciative of the impact these small businesses have on our local economies"

Melissa Bean, Politician

"Eventually, though, I'd like to have my own production company. Then I could create great opportunities not only for myself, but for other actors as well"

Mario Lopez, Actor

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