Jimmy John Liautaud Quotes

People don't know how hard it is to have your own business.

When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.

My father's whole life was work. He had a retail store in Ossining, New York, and I mean, he was down there at 6:15 every morning. The store didn't open until 9, but he hadda be down there. That's all he knew.

We offer an extremely controlled, disciplined, and completely systematic franchise package.

I guess one of the main things you realize when you work as an entrepreneur is that it's long days, long hours.

Entrepreneurs: The only people who work 80 hour weeks to avoid working 40 hour weeks.

I'm not interested in being Franchise Boy.

If I'd really known how hard I was going to have to work behind the scenes to have any kind of business, I think I would have stopped.

When you dive into being an entrepreneur, you are making a commitment to yourself and to others who come to work with you and become interdependent with you that you will move mountains with every ounce of energy you have in your body.

At the end of the day, no one is going to care about your company as much as you do. That is a motto that you will live or die by. And if you don't believe that, just take your eye off the ball for a day and watch what happens.

Entrepreneurship is a muscle, and winning is an endurance game.

People still think I led a rock and roll lifestyle. I was in my kitchen 100 hours a week; I didn't have time to do that.

I had that hunger to work and keep growing. So I started to cut hair. When I started getting better, I got my own barbershop. I had a lot of clients in my hometown, so I wouldn't stop cutting hair. That's why I think I have such discipline in my job because I've always been very responsible.

When you're your own business, and my business is called Nita Strauss Incorporated, and I am my business, so it's not like I get to stop working at 5 p.m. and go home and do other things. It's a full-time job.

I often work 14-hour days, but the job is very fulfilling. I love being my own boss.

I think, as a founder and entrepreneur, you just keep hustling through it.

It can be isolating to be an entrepreneur… you have to keep hustling to make it happen and that can be lonely.

If you want to become a professional football player at any level, when you're growing up, you have to make sacrifices, and it's very difficult. It's not easy, but you have to train hard, you have to live right, and you have to rest.

When I was setting up my own business in my early 20s I'd get up early and work every hour I could stay awake.

Back at the beginning of my career, I had to make all these sacrifices - sleeping in a car on nights where I'd wrestle in front of 20,000 people - because I wasn't making any money.

People want to start their own business or become financially independent. But you don't end up a successful entrepreneur unless you find a way to love the risk, the uncertainty, the repeated failures, and working insane hours on something you have no idea whether will be successful or not.

We were not rich by any means. My dad was a plasterer and worked long hours - I hardly ever saw him when I was growing up. He had always gone to work before I woke up, and usually, I would be in bed before he came home.

You know those days at the office when you used to come in and not really do much? You don't get days like that as an entrepreneur. If you don't do the work you need to, nothing happens that needs to. It's that simple.

Being an entrepreneur is not a 9-to-5 job.

There have been a lot of challenges, but I'm still standing on my own, and it's quite an achievement knowing that I own my own business and created my own success through hard work and vision.