Belinda Johnson Quotes

You start a business, and you really don't have much of a budget.

Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.

The economic costs of starting your own business can be significant; in fact, most new startup companies fail because of undercapitalization.

When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.

As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some sort.

It's much more difficult running a business than buying one.

How could anyone ever build a company if they didn't have investments? It doesn't make any sense.

I get by mostly on speaking engagements, but as soon as I try to pay myself, I end up having to give it back to the business to cover operating expenses or other unplanned costs.

Starting a successful company is one of the hardest things anyone does.

If you run a business, and I see F1 as a business, if you have to go back every five weeks saying 'oh, I need another two million', it gets old pretty quick. Then the trust is lost.

I'm sensitive to the resources needed by a small business to get started and keep going.

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

You want to have stability in the commercial aspect of your operation.

Starting a business is risky. Half of all new businesses fail to experience a fifth anniversary. And everyone knows that you could lose all the money you've invested in your new company and then some. Those are the obvious risks of trying to be an entrepreneur.

Starting out, iRobot was not an economic rocket ship. It took six and a half years before we had enough money in the bank at the beginning of each month to make payroll. We always made it - we paid salaries at the end of the month, and I always had four weeks to figure things out.

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.

Consequently many large railroad systems of heavy capitalization bid fair to run into difficulties on the first serious falling off in general business.

I almost never invest in ideas or plans, so you'll need to have a company and at least a product, if not customers.

Be it $15 million here and $11 million there, it takes hundreds of millions to be successful in this business.

I'm not saying M.B.A.s can't be great entrepreneurs. They can. But you don't need a degree to figure out it's costing you $5,000 per month to run your business, so you need $30,000 to keep it going for six more months.

You're either making money or you're not. If you're not making money get out of the business.

The swamp is a business model. It's a successful business model.

I'm a writer, but this is a business. You have to look at it in the way you would look at any business.

I believe that starting any business should be as easy as a 10-year-old starting a lemonade stand.

In my first start-up, I didn't get any salary for four years, so I had to move back with my parents.