Jason Kidd Quotes

I've helped some of my classmates on how to strategize to get to the next level of their businesses. And it's interesting, because here I am sitting there from the entertainment industry and the fashion industry, and I'm giving a billionaire that has a business that's been in his family for 300 years - I'm giving him advice about strategy!

Martha Stewart convinced me to have a business. She sometimes takes a very personal interest, and she kept saying, 'You have to open your own business,' and gave me chances. She took my cakes on 'The Oprah Winfrey Show.' I met a lot of people through her.

To me, mentorships and internships are two big pillars in business development. I believe in having multiple mentors.

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

Mentors, by far, are the most important aspects of businesses.

Entrepreneurs can benefit a lot from the right help and advice, and you can avoid costly mistakes. You can get incredible leverage in hiring people who wouldn't even talk to you if you have the right help. An investor isn't about money - it's about the help and advice you can get.

I've always been very passionate about investing time in and sharing my expertise with other entrepreneurs.

Everything that ever happened to me in my career, Trump was the first guy to pick up the phone and reach out to me.

The best advice I ever got was from Lee Iacocca.... It was get into a business where you can be a big fish, not the little fish. Get into a business where you can be a change agent, where you can make a difference.

When I go back into education, I'm going to do business studies.

I've got a lot that I want to do, so I would like to expand my empire, for sure. I love it.

If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.

My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.

I admire Pat Shortt as a businessman. Such acumen is unusual for an entertainer. He did all his own deals. I learnt a lot from Pat when I was on the road with him for a year.

I think I've been a moderately good boss. I've made a lot of people extremely wealthy - I think we've created 30 millionaires.

From the start, ProFounder was created to make sure anyone could be empowered to pursue their dreams through entrepreneurship.

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.

You should be accumulating really great relationships throughout your career.

Jamie Foxx. He's been very much a mentor and friend, and we've worked together several times. He's just been such an influence in my career. There's nothing that man can't do, and that's something I would like to reflect in my career.

There's just nothing to me so invaluable in my business, but in many businesses, as great mentors.

The Entrepreneurial Perspective is absolutely necessary for the creation of a great, growing business.

Growing your own business is great. Watching your ideas come to life, taking care of new customers and watching them become repeat customers, and successfully building your team is a feeling that can't be matched.

I built my business, and WWE brought my business in. I want to be successful in my business and, in turn, make WWE successful.

I started with shoes, and with hard work and discipline, the business prospered.

The biggest direct influence on my career is Ben Edlund, who gave me my first real professional break and, through his friendship and example, turned me into a writer and a more critical thinker in general.