Tommy Hilfiger Quotes

Know the business; you need to know the business side of things.

I have always been a business person.

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.

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

It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.

People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.

I have never had a business mind.

I'm not into business at all.

Business fascinates me. It's very creative.

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.

I certainly think you could look at the business side of how WWE was run, which was as a conservative company with little debt and strong cash balance.

The business end of business has never interested me.

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

Designing is so easy - it's the business that is hard. That's why you really have to respect Ralph Lauren - look at what he's done. Anybody who can sustain themselves should be applauded.

I think running a business, doing what I've done for the last - since 1996, has taught me so many things because I started from just an idea and then had to figure out how to make it, market it, every single thing from soup to nuts on how to get a product done and out there.

I'm an inventor. I don't enjoy running the business.

I don't have any interest in being a chef without being on the business side of things, or vice versa, because if you don't make money at the end of the month, you're going out of business.

If you don't operate it as a business, you aren't going to be around very long.

Money is always the least of the problems. It is finding the right business or growing the right business. You can't do that without the right people.

All those lessons that I've learned on the court, I have applied them to my life outside of the court in business, my company, called V Starr interiors, an interior design company, and EleVen, which I wear on court.

I learned the life of business, commerce - it's an art.

I believe in this industry as a business, and I want to continue to grow my own business.

I love cooking, but I love the business, too. It's important because a lot of chefs forget the business side and have to shut down after six months.

I have always been clear about what I wanted to do and who I wanted to dress. However, you need that business sense to help direct your talent. Because at the end of the day, you are selling clothes, and that is the reality which we live in.

I love to think about business. It's what makes me happy.