Niki Lauda Quotes

I love being a businessman much more than being a hacker.

Honestly, if I could be anything, I'd love to be a small-business authority type of person.

I was never, ever interested in becoming a businessman or an entrepreneur. If I was a businessman, or saw myself as a businessman, I would have never gone into the airline business.

I grew up in a household that revered building businesses. It wasn't thinking about leadership; it was more about building something. To build something, you ultimately have to lead.

I spend most of my career as a management consultant, a businessman working with family-owned small and medium-sized businesses. The businesses that make up the core of our economy.

This industry is a business - I'm a business myself, and I want to be able to run my own business.

A lot of people especially want to know about going into business. But it's a two-way conversation.

Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.

Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.

I never thought of myself as an entrepreneur before I started this. I just like to build things.

I have a couple different businesses.

I'm a business owner.

I am not a politician. I'm an American businessman and entrepreneur that have built two businesses, and I try to play it straight with people.

I may be a businessman in that I set up and run companies for profit, but when I try to plan ahead and dream up new products and new companies, I'm an idealist.

I didn't know how to run a business. I was a terrible gallerist, the worst in history, possibly.

Yeah, handsome, great big guy, seven feet tall! Name is Rick Miller - Portland, Oregon. And he started a business. Of course you know it was in basketball. But it wasn't in basketball! I mean, I figured he had to be in sport, but he wasn't in sport.

I've always wanted to be a professional golfer. So what if you always wanted to be an entrepreneur?

I want to help small businesses grow and thrive. I know how to make that happen. I spent my life in the private sector. I know why jobs come and why they go.

Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a criticism; they're passionate about cutting hair or cooking food, and that's why they got in the business, not because they have an MBA.

As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work.

I started my first business when I was 19. I learned a valuable lesson as a small business owner. You are the first one to work, last one to leave, and last one to be paid.

I'm not a businessman.

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

My parents grew that small business from one 18-year-old guarding a bingo to more than 125 employees in three states. And sure, there was help along the way. But my parents took the risk. They stood up. And you better believe they built it.

That's part of being an entrepreneur - you watch your pennies.