Ray J Quotes

At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining.

I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.

You can be as creative as you want to and build all these cool projects, but ultimately, if they're not successful and you don't have the business structure in place, everything will flop.

I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

Risk-taking is my thing... I think of my company as my chip stack.

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.

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

The mercantile business did not suit me.

And I thought I'd always like some form of business, I didn't know what kind of business I'd go in.

I don't want to be a basketball player that's a businessman. I want to be a businessman that's a business.

A lot of people want to start a business, and they're like, 'I wanna start a business, give me some money to invest.' Where is your business plan? Are you investing money yourself into your own business? How is this going to work? People think that they can just come to you with an idea and have money.

I see myself in business. I'm good with numbers. It's just something that interests me.

I'm a business owner.

I'm not into business at all.

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.

There's always something happening in the world that creates an opportunity to try to fix a business and build a business.

Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan.

Once you're involved in a business, it's part of what you do. It's the way you are.

I've made money in real estate, hotel, and restaurant investments.

Running a business anywhere isn't easy.

I don't think you should ever start a business and move in a direction where you can't see it becoming a business.

Start small; get to know the landscape. We take risks but not major risks. We always started with small capital - €4m in Holland, $10m in Russia - and as we get to know the landscape of a country, we think about other businesses.

You cannot get into business for the fashion of it.

I look at building business as a creative process that I enjoy.