Jeffrey Deitch Quotes

A lot of people especially want to know about going into business. But it's a two-way conversation.

Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a criticism; they're passionate about cutting hair or cooking food, and that's why they got in the business, not because they have an MBA.

I was voted least likely to manage a business when I was at Dickinson College.

The Big Dream of any entrepreneur really has very little to do with the entrepreneur. If you truly love repairing automobiles, chances are, you'll be a lousy business owner. Likewise, if you are fascinated by debits and credits, the dream of building an accounting firm with you at the helm is probably best left unfulfilled.

The failure rate for gym owners and personal trainers is very high because it is very difficult for them to work on their business when they are busy working in their business.

I've got no business acumen whatsoever.

In Joe Yorio you find a guy who's smarter at business than I am. I'm an entrepreneur and idea guy; he's a professional businessman.

I'm a business owner.

Ignore the stock market, ignore the economy, and buy a business you understand.

I see myself as a classic middle market entrepreneur, and this is the role I fulfil.

I was never, ever interested in becoming a businessman or an entrepreneur. If I was a businessman, or saw myself as a businessman, I would have never gone into the airline business.

You might indeed be able to provide this money that people need to start a business, but can they run a business? This new consolidated agency [National Empowerment Fund] focuses on that matter of preparing people so that they can run business successfully.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.

What I learned about America is that anything is possible, but sometimes people get into businesses they shouldn't be in. They go in without capital or know how, but their mothers had told them that they could cook, and they're good with people.

I have always been a business person.

I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.

I spent most of my career operating businesses and fixing businesses, not staring at a Bloomberg screen.

I think running a business, doing what I've done for the last - since 1996, has taught me so many things because I started from just an idea and then had to figure out how to make it, market it, every single thing from soup to nuts on how to get a product done and out there.

I'm an inventor. I don't enjoy running the business.

I'm a businesswoman.

A lot of people who own a business aren't entrepreneurial at all.

My father was an entrepreneur - a sign maker, and he had about 20 employees - and often he'd take me to business meetings, and I would listen to him talk with his workers and customers. We would also talk a lot about business over dinner.

About 10 million people start a business each year, and about one out of two will make it. The average entrepreneur is often on his or her third startup.

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