Bobbi Brown Quotes

I've built 'The Conversation' from the ground up with no business training.

I just really love business.

I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.

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

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

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

Once you're involved in a business, it's part of what you do. It's the way you are.

I never knew anything other than wanting to be an entrepreneur. I tried my first business when I was 6 years old, and I started another business when I was 8. I don't think I knew anything besides that.

I think many people go to business school and learn ways to play it safe, ensuring that they avoid some of the pain that entrepreneurs endure while taking less calculated risks.

Running a business anywhere isn't easy.

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

I've always had to create my own markets and I've always been at a juncture in my career.

Great businessmen are creators.

The best founders are extremely thoughtful and have an eye for quality. I don't know if there's any generic advice here that would be helpful. Startup knowledge is a moving target.

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 look at building business as a creative process that I enjoy.

I didn't go to a business school. I didn't really study it.

I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.

I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.

The mercantile business did not suit me.

I am a serious businesswoman. I don't enjoy being out there on TV; it's not what I do well. But I love building companies; I love making products.

Know the business, learn the business, own something.

I think entrepreneurs are born and not created, and so I think you see a lot of similarities among entrepreneurs in different parts of the world. Their backdrop may be very different, but their drive to create a business and to create jobs remains very much the same, whether it's in Silicon Valley or Kandahar or Kabul.