Prabal Gurung Quotes

You learn every single day when you're running a company. You learn as you go.

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

Business is tough; you need tough guys.

Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become efficient, you don't run a business well, and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington.

When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me.

People have said, 'Why don't you make your own company like Chan-wook Park has his own company,' but my head is full of writing and directing and I don't feel like I want to run a company. That's not really within my personality as well.

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.

A lot of people who own a business aren't entrepreneurial at all.

My business acumen is definitely growing.

For resourceful tech founders, finding capital is rarely a problem; making the best use of it is another story. A few years slinging pepperoni pies and chicken wings - on tiny margins and with minimal investment - might not be the worst fiscal training.

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.

I think you need a really strong businessperson running the state, a person who's used to turning negatives into positives, which is what happens in business.

I have always been a business person.

I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.

I've always had an interest in business, and my interest in business has really expanded over the years.

Obama, for all his brilliance, has no real, felt understanding of management structures or of business.

I was in the Navy as an enlisted man, started my first business when I was 21.

To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.

I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.

I never learned management. I never went to business school. I'm an artist. I happened to have really clear ideas of what I thought my business should be.

Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.

Starting a company, your success is going to be very dependent on how you adapt. You're going to make decisions, you're going to make bets; most of them are going to turn out to be wrong.

I try getting in front of as many opportunities as possible, but in the late '90s, I had no idea that I'd end up being CFO of a technology company. I'd no idea what venture capital was.

When I first came into baseball, people didn't want to hear that a team was a business. But it is. And the better the business is run, the healthier the team on the field is going to be.

Running a business anywhere isn't easy.