Robin Birley Quotes

I've learned, like with anything else, business is only as good as your connections and your resources. And some of the resources that I have are the fact that I work with huge artists.

Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking; you can't buy friendships.

I think Katie Price is a really good businesswoman. She has made so much money.

The best entrepreneurs I've ever met are all good communicators. It's perhaps one of the very few unifying factors.

When you have built a $3 billion company out of a broom closet, I think you are entitled to a nice house.

When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.

My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.

I am an entrepreneur in the classic mold. No matter what I do - outside of sticking my tongue out - I tend to make money, and quite a bit in non-KISS stuff.

As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.

I have a good eye for great projects, talent, and entrepreneurs.

What's successful is when you are good at what you aim to do. And I don't think that Nas has aimed to do anything that he hasn't done. So he is a good businessman.

Rockefeller once explained the secret of success. 'Get up early, work late - and strike oil.'

Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer.

It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful.

Obviously, many people may remember me as the first winner of 'The Apprentice,' but prior to that, I was an entrepreneur. I started my first business when I was in college, and then getting my lucky break was when Donald Trump hired me on.

My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.

I want to be known as a great businessman.

You must develop personal contacts if you want to be successful.

People don't understand this, but I started very young, and I became very, very successful at a very young age. By the time I was 26 years old, I was a multimillionaire. And I started with nothing. And I was on the road 10, 11 months a year.

Now, I've never hosted a reality TV show, but I know the true mark of a successful businessman is not the number of times you say, 'You're fired.' It's the number times you say, 'You're hired.'

I think a businessman can be an artist just as much as a writer or a sculptor, so I'm real proud of what the company has become.

It's very rare that a person, especially in his twenties and thirties, can do more than one business and do it well.

I have definitely learnt in business that when you have a smart, engaged entrepreneur with good judgement they can really drive even a mediocre business forward so to me the entrepreneur is very important.

There's a lot of 'who you know' in this business, and I don't think I skipped a step on the journey.

I'm a successful businessman.