Nipsey Hussle Quotes

To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.

At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining.

It's important to have a really clear strategy so when you are in business, you only have to make micro-strategy changes.

I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

Just like a script, you need to keep a business plan to yourself.

It's a very difficult business, and I'm very interested in the future of it after I'm gone, and I thought that if I can't produce a strong management team here myself, and I can find better management elsewhere, then I should sell it.

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

I don't think you should ever start a business and move in a direction where you can't see it becoming a business.

People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards.

I think it's natural for any manager to want to grow his business. The question is at what rate, and in what direction, and in what format?

There are companies with management and companies with money. You can always find money. Management is the key to success in any business.

Every entrepreneur, whether man or woman, should start with a robust business structure.

You have venture capitalists. We view them as experts who also help finance your company and give directions and also some pretty candid discussions about what you have to do better.

You can't be successful in business without taking risks. It's really that simple.

I see myself in business. I'm good with numbers. It's just something that interests me.

I'm not into business at all.

The entrance strategy is actually more important than the exit strategy.

Set your business plan to win; raise the bar or you're not going to be prepared. You need to think that what you're doing will make you $100 million.

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.

Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term.

Risk-taking is my thing... I think of my company as my chip stack.

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends.

Lot of companies are looking for advisory work on business strategy, restructuring work.

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.