Donald Bren Quotes

I'm a businessman, that's all.

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.

Business, numbers, negotiations, all that stuff I wouldn't go near.

I always knew I wanted to run a business someday.

I ran my own business when I was 19, buying condos and renovating apartment buildings.

An entrepreneur needs to know what they need, period. Then they need to find an investor who can build off whatever their weaknesses are - whether that's through money, strategic partnerships or knowledge.

I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.

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'm a business guy. I'm not a politician.

Trump is a big businessman. He's your boss or CEO, not one of your brothers on the line.

I like the fact that Donald Trump has been in the private sector. I like that he's had to make a payroll. I like that he's had to do projects.

The thing that helped me most when I started my own business was my experience as the president and PR director of student associations in college. Because of that I knew how to create and run an organization and how to really make things - even hard things - happen.

I am a home builder. I have to be an optimist.

I knew that when I grew up, I wanted to have a business.

A three-to-six month course can give priority and direction on the five or six important things that entrepreneurs need to do first.

Great leadership and great companies aren't built overnight, and they're not built without capital. And capital can sometimes be counter-productive to building a great culture.

A lot of planning goes into ensuring that every project becomes a super hit.

This may sound corny, but I really admire my husband, Vivek Deora, as a businessman because I am amazed by how he conducts business internationally.

I had a very long and successful career as an entrepreneur, focused on the needs of small to midsize businesses.

I think that we're trying to look at all of our assets and figure out what's the best use and where we need to make investments in infrastructure to enable the projects that we want.

I feel like a lot of entrepreneurs hear all this talk about profitability and realize they need to lower their burn. So, they just start chopping off perks and people.

I have personally invested in a company created by Rohit Khattar - Cinestaan Film Company. But that's what I do personally.

We'll continue to take the right actions to make sure we're a profitable business.

I'm sensitive to the resources needed by a small business to get started and keep going.

The most important job of an entrepreneur is to design the business before there is a business.