Tilman J. Fertitta Quotes

I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire.

We're so used to financing things on our own that we always have a plan in place to sort of scale our ideas.

Before you can become a millionaire, you must learn to think like one. You must learn how to motivate yourself to counter fear with courage. Making critical decisions about your career, business, investments and other resources conjures up fear, fear that is part of the process of becoming a financial success.

People follow proven formulas in any business.

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.

I started LearnVest with a tiny savings account where I paid designers, technologists, and even bartered... Because I started with paying for things myself with my own savings, it sharpened my focus of how to spend money.

I'm used to doing big undertakings with my own money.

My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire.

Your own business growth and success depends on many things, and along that growing path, you are going to have to concede certain responsibilities and activities - whether for your accounting, your production, or day-to-day management.

Other than playing the game I love, my passion is investing in innovative companies and helping the entrepreneurs behind them succeed.

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

Would I advise early-stage companies against taking debt? One hundred percent yes.

I've been doing a hybrid of investing and entrepreneurship, which I think initially I wasn't set out to do. But I realized it fit my personality.

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.

Financing is tough, and you really have to work hard in the businesses you invest in.

Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.

I hear so many startups talking about how they can raise VC instead of questioning whether they need it in the first place.

I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

Business is the salt of life.

History has proven time and again that downturns are the best time to invest in new start-ups. You get good deals and find a better environment for start-ups to grow.

We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment.

I made my first million pounds at the age of 26. As a little girl, I said I would retire when I had made my first million. The reality was different. When I did make it, I wanted to make another million, and another, and another after that.

After I met my partner, Mr. Protherow, we decided to start a banking project, and at the same time we started to think already about a business on a bigger scale. At the very beginning we thought more about gaining money, to have a normal life with our families, etc.

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.