Paul Newman Quotes

You have to be very fast-thinking, creative, and mobile. It is key to making a business move.

As an entrepreneur, you work out solutions.

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

I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.

Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.

In this business, you never say no to anything.

Our ultimate goal is to stay in business. We are not here with a specific plan. That's kind of how our entire career has evolved. We will figure things out as we go along.

The essence of good business is knowing when to step on a train and when to step off.

Nobody has a crystal ball, and part of evolving a business plan is to say, 'I might have said we're going left, but I see the opportunity and we're going right.'

Business is a sprint until you find an opportunity, then it's the patience of a marathon runner.

I never had a plan. I have to say, I'm very shocked when people start a company and say, 'In five years I want to launch a perfume, or in 10 years I want to have this.' How can you know?

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

What an entrepreneur does is to build for the long run. If the market is great, you get all of the resources you can. You build to it. But a good entrepreneur is always prepared to throttle back, put on the brakes, and if the world changes, adapt to the world.

Entrepreneurs … benefit greatly from being willing to fail, willing to experiment. Good entrepreneurs tend to be stubborn on the vision but flexible on the details. They’re persistent on what they’re trying to accomplish, but they are willing to rewrite the details as needed as they learn and as things fail.

It doesn't take anything to be a businessman.

You can't be successful in business without taking risks. It's really that simple.

I always just like to improvise, and that goes for my audition tapes as well.

When I looked into the mechanics of being a businessman, I found it wasn't rocket science.

When you work without a script, you are in a sense working in a much more improvisational way than when you are prepared totally.

Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.

Do I really look like a guy with a plan?

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.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

I really don't map out my life. There's no big plan.

When I do a take, I very often try things that I haven't planned to try to see if I can pull it off.