Tamara Mellon Quotes

I really focus on the ball, I really focus on the work, and I really focus on creating all the growth opportunities for anyone in the organisation that's willing to do it.

Business is the ultimate sport. In business, as in sport, the one thing you can control is effort.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they're proud of.

Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.

Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

My three wishes are just be respected out the game. I want respect from everybody. And just make a successful clothing line and company. I'm not going to put a number on it. Just to have a great career.

I have a great team who has helped me build Biocon, I was very fortunate to be able to share my vision with a group of people who really were as excited about challenges as I was.

In the movies, you want a good story and characters that are honest, but you are also looking for a good director who can lead the ship. That's how we look at business. Everybody has a great idea for a start-up, and so do their relatives, and they tell me, 'You gotta build it.' I say, 'I have to believe in it.'

The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting.

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

Where are the people who don't have goals headed? Those 97 per cent end up working for the three percent.

To my mind, the best investment a young man starting out in business can possibly make is to give all his time, all his energies, to work - just plain, hard work.

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

For the very top earners, vision and inspiration are essential. You need those to become the next Steve Jobs, but perhaps not to be the highest paid dentist in Beverly Hills.

The reason I've been able to maintain my position of chairman of CBS in addition to all the Viacom stuff is my team.

In order to run a great business, you must know that a bunch of really intrinsically unhappy people, that's not a recipe for success. Don't be anywhere you don't need to be; it's just like that.

Great businessmen are creators.

If you're going to run a small business, you need to know what everyone is doing, be the first one in and the last one out, and work weekends.

Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status - there's joy in that.

I firmly believe that success lies in the combination of both talent and business savvy, and that the magic comes through partnership between both.

What I relish most is when a member of my staff, who has worked with passion and patience towards achieving their dream of owning a restaurant, walks up to me and says, 'Nobu! I have done it!'

During the course of my football and business careers, I have had the great honor of meeting and associating with many outstanding leaders.

America is a country of entrepreneurship and great business leaders.

It's almost a cliche that great Silicon Valley entrepreneurs don't go sit on a beach when they make a lot of money; they get back to work building another company or at least investing in other people's companies.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.