Wayne Messam Quotes

I just really love business.

I'm running a business.

I'm a business person at heart.

Running a business anywhere isn't easy.

Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.

I just love business. I love doing business-type stuff.

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.

I've run businesses with thousands of people. I've run businesses with 10 people.

I have a couple different businesses.

I've built 'The Conversation' from the ground up with no business training.

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

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

HartBeat Productions is a company established by me; it's mine. I run it. I have employees.

I've always had an interest in business, and my interest in business has really expanded over the years.

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.

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

At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining.

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 always knew I wanted to run a business someday.

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

I've been preparing to run a big company all my life.

There are companies with management and companies with money. You can always find money. Management is the key to success in any business.

Know the business, learn the business, own something.

I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.

Your first job, as an owner and an entrepreneur, has to be to understand how the business is going to actually work.