Millard Drexler Quotes

I couldn't sell water in a desert. I have no business acumen. I can tell you why you have no business acumen, and I can tell you why your project may or may not work, but I have no ability to make money.

My business acumen is definitely growing.

I've got no business acumen whatsoever.

I have always been a business person.

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.

If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

Know the business; you need to know the business side of things.

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

As much as you need to know your operations, if you don't understand the finance side and how to do the business, you're never going to be successful. So you might be the best operator or visionary, but if you don't understand the finance side... I'm successful because I know the finance side, but I also know operations; it's not an accident.

J.D., MBAs typically go into the financial world. What I love is driving the top line.

I think I have a pretty decent business savvy, when I give myself room to.

I am an actor but might not be smart enough to handle business, so it's always good to have intelligent people around who can look into other aspects of business.

I've always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I'd read business journals and the business sections of newspapers.

I would've liked to have been a better businessman when I was younger. And of course, I couldn't, because it wasn't part of my atmosphere. I never lived with accountants, I never lived with lawyers.

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.

I'm not into business at all.

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.

If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.

No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.

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.

You've got to know business before you go to show business.

Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.

I have almost no interest in quarterly reports. Running a business or investing in a business based on quarterly earnings doesn't make any sense at all to me.

If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I think the principles of creative leadership apply everywhere, whether it's an advertising company or whether you're running a hospital.