Richard Quest Quotes

I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows how to run a business, knows the numbers.

Business, numbers, negotiations, all that stuff I wouldn't go near.

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.

The business end of business has never interested me.

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

There's one thing I've learned about entrepreneurs' business plans. Every one is wrong.

My business acumen is definitely growing.

I'm no dummy. I have a good sense of the business end of this game.

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

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

Before me, there was no money, no business with yoga.

No matter what business you're in, business is business, and financing and money are critical. I would have made a lot fewer mistakes if I had more schooling in that area.

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.

There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.

Many businesses fail because the owner wasn't willing to invest and wasn't educated on the difference between spending money frivolously and investing money into the business for growth, and the risks and rewards of that cash infusion.

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

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

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.

A tendency to focus on art over business has meant that too many designers have failed to make the most of their critical acclaim.

I'm a businessman, and what I know is numbers and business.

You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.

Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.

I'm not very good at business. I'm more of a creative, fun-loving hippie type.

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