Lori Greiner Quotes

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

When you're starting a new business, you don't need to know much about it. A lot of the work is blocking and tackling - it's the same type of stuff no matter what sector you're in.

I understand the highs and lows of building a global business from the ground and taking that initial product idea all the way to the market.

Along the way, I learned the key to launching a company. It's all about storytelling.

I knew nothing about sales, marketing or how to run a company. Nor did I have a desire to do any of those things.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

For the last five years I've been in the production business.

Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.

I've been good at product entrepreneuring.

We are going to continue to run a business, and we are going to continue to meet the supply and demand that's out there.

No matter what, once the doors are open for business, the entrepreneur has no choice but to be directing multiple attacks at once - raising money, writing software, prototyping, selling, collecting, training, and marketing.

If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.

Business has only two basic functions - marketing and innovation.

I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side.

I always knew I wanted to start my own line. Nights and weekends, I would work on my business plan.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

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.

Running a business anywhere isn't easy.

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

Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.

Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and she had never been in the workforce. She just had great practical sense.

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

I can't understand the conditions of a corporate product being designed and getting millions. I admire it, it's great, but I don't know how to do that. I have to have the wheel.

I don't think you should ever start a business and move in a direction where you can't see it becoming a business.

In school I studied international business and marketing, so I've always been attracted to business.