Susan Orlean Quotes

Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

Roddy actually was in the business longer then I was and started sooner than I did, and Roddy was a smart guy.

The primary reason in starting a business part-time is not so much to make a product great. The real reason for starting a part-time business is to make you a great businessperson.

I can't draw a stick person. I can't play a musical instrument. But I've always had a knack for making money.

This industry is 90 percent business, 10 percent talent.

It turns out that Donald Trump has been very good at buying low and selling high, and it helps account for his amazing business success.

I was an absolutely untalented designer.

I spent 26 years watching my dad, and I didn't know anything about the business until I started myself.

In Joe Yorio you find a guy who's smarter at business than I am. I'm an entrepreneur and idea guy; he's a professional businessman.

My brother Alex is so creative. He's good at making stuff and runs his own clothing brand.

You might indeed be able to provide this money that people need to start a business, but can they run a business? This new consolidated agency [National Empowerment Fund] focuses on that matter of preparing people so that they can run business successfully.

Successful entrepreneurship is ultimately a matter of flair. But there is also a fund of practical knowledge to be acquired and, of course, the right legal and financial framework has to be provided for productive enterprise to develop.

If economists were good at business, they would be rich men instead of advisers to rich men.

but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.

Entrepreneurship is not only a mindset but a skillset.

Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.

There's an old chestnut that asks whether an entrepreneur is born or made and I think it's a combination of both. You need the talent; without the talent you can't do it.

He that hath not the craft, let him shut up shop.

During my lifetime I have met dozens of writers and photographers in dozens of different countries. But I have encountered no one who could both write and photograph with the artistry of Robert Vavra.

I've always thought of myself as a businesswoman. I have the creative side, but I also have this business sense.

Through the years our business has been killing;-it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of lif eis limited to death.

because talent alone doesn't make an artist

Donald Trump is a good businessman. He knows how to put the deal together. And I think he'd be a - he'll be a very constructive figure in the White House.

Few people do business well, who do nothing else.