Michelle Phan Quotes

I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.

Entrepreneurship isn't for everyone, and not everyone is going to be an entrepreneur, but women who turn to business, turn to economics, because there are people depending on them, I think that their creativity, their resilience, their spirit, embody what's best about entrepreneurship.

My dad has been a big influence on me, because he's always had his own business. He really taught me business sense and how to be a focused individual, but also how to have fun and make everyone around you have fun.

If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn't any limit to what you can do with your business and your life. Ideas are any man's greatest asset.

The way I run my business seems to be easier than the way I run my life.

It's a completely different thing, but there's so many things I learned from being an athlete that helped me in business. The only risk is not taking the risk. You've got to take that step.

I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed.

I never learned management. I never went to business school. I'm an artist. I happened to have really clear ideas of what I thought my business should be.

You can't go into business thinking that success will come to you in just one or two years.

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.

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.

When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun.

People must be realistic when evaluating their business.

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.

I am a very hands-on person, and I like to be involved in driving my business.

I like to encourage people who are entrepreneurs-in-waiting.

I want to be an entrepreneur too; I like the business side of things. When I was younger I wanted to be a vet or a tightrope walker. But I have no sense of balance and I can't bear animals dying, so I abandoned both ideas.

This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.

I'm an entrepreneur. This is my life. This my career. This the way I eat.

Any entrepreneur has to prepare for a lot of dark days, and they've got to really like what they are doing, and they have to have a reason for it to succeed.

When you dive into being an entrepreneur, you are making a commitment to yourself and to others who come to work with you and become interdependent with you that you will move mountains with every ounce of energy you have in your body.

It takes courage to be an entrepreneur.

I have always been fascinated by entrepreneurship.

This mix of willingness and passion made me the businesswoman I am now.

I think of entrepreneurship as a way of creating value.