Venus Williams Quotes

I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side.

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.

Business fascinates me. It's very creative.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

Being in Loyola College exposed me to other options and gave me confidence, apart from the freedom to bunk classes. I became a merchandiser and then a garment manufacturer, and interacting with foreign buyers and manufacturing foreign brands in India gave me a high.

Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

I think running a business, doing what I've done for the last - since 1996, has taught me so many things because I started from just an idea and then had to figure out how to make it, market it, every single thing from soup to nuts on how to get a product done and out there.

If anyone said to me 'invent a new monster so we can sell more toys', I'd kick them out of my office.

I didn't go to a business school. I didn't really study it.

In school I studied international business and marketing, so I've always been attracted to business.

I'm a horrible business person.

I'm an inventor. I don't enjoy running the business.

Not everyone is born to run a $4 billion company. There is no magic formula. I've learned, and I've grown by learning. That's why I've enjoyed being in business so much: It's stretched me.

I was voted least likely to manage a business when I was at Dickinson College.

I'm Shaggy. I'm a business.

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

I enjoy the creative side of the business side of being a restaurateur. That's my thing. The thing I'm constantly thinking about is, how do you create new, interesting situations that keep people coming back?

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

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

I have always been a business person.

In the movies, you want a good story and characters that are honest, but you are also looking for a good director who can lead the ship. That's how we look at business. Everybody has a great idea for a start-up, and so do their relatives, and they tell me, 'You gotta build it.' I say, 'I have to believe in it.'

One of the people who most influenced me was Ben Shapiro, a marketing professor at the business school. He used to rant and rave and pound his fist: 'It's all about the customers!' And he was right. He was also right that, at that time, retailing was devoid of really talented people; he urged me to go in that direction.