Andrew Mason Quotes

As a former small business owner, I recognize both the important role small businesses play in our economy and the broad universe of challenges that small business owners face in trying to make ends meet.

My father built a small manufacturing business. I worked alongside him and saw firsthand the challenges that business owners face.

Starting my business has been very hard work. I have received no help from any officials at all.

Running a business anywhere isn't easy.

Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.

I'm running a business.

It's tough for people to get into business, especially a small business.

I've been preparing to run a big company all my life.

It's much more difficult running a business than buying one.

I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less.

Most small-business owners have no financial education when they started. They weren't trained to be entrepreneurs.

Like all small-business owners, I know what it's like to take a risk on an idea, manage cash flow, navigate regulations and tax laws, and create jobs.

It's an error in judgment to bounce into starting a small business before you cash in on building a strong foundation.

There is so much headache and hassle involved in starting a business or running a business.

I'm sensitive to the resources needed by a small business to get started and keep going.

Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.

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.

As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work.

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.

Until 'Scrubs,' I didn't have a business manager. I learned everything on my own - and I learned the hard way.

I am a graduate in business management with specialisation in finance, and I love accounts!

The business end of business has never interested me.

I've always had an interest in business, and my interest in business has really expanded over the years.

I started my first business when I was 19. I learned a valuable lesson as a small business owner. You are the first one to work, last one to leave, and last one to be paid.

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