Dikembe Mutombo Quotes

You learn every single day when you're running a company. You learn as you go.

I am a very hands-on person, and I like to be involved in driving my business.

People have said, 'Why don't you make your own company like Chan-wook Park has his own company,' but my head is full of writing and directing and I don't feel like I want to run a company. That's not really within my personality as well.

I have never seen myself as a promoter. I always evaluate myself as a manager.

The hardest thing about starting a company and running a company is, there's just so many expectations on you, and there are so many people who have things that they want you to do. It's a lot like life about that.

[Describing her role:] It's like running a big corporation and a little country at the same time.

I would love to be a general manager just for the challenge.

I like to be the captain of my ship and be involved with everything from stage production, merch, art, and rollouts.

As I've evolved, I'm capable of doing a lot of things at once, but really, as an entrepreneur and business person, it's more about adding the right structure to be able to handle scaling all those things as opposed to being at the forefront of doing a lot of them.

I know how to do science. I know how to make things. I don't know how to run a company. Now that's a really tough job.

When I did a high-profile project, I was not the developer of it.

That's the problem with so many organizations around entrepreneurship. They're driven by metrics that don't matter.

I'm really more of an executive.

I've said it for four decades - work 'on' your business, not just 'in' your business!

Nurturing a project from the ground floor is something I've been wanting to do.

I have a production company,; I have a foundation. I have a lot of responsibilities. Not family - just a lot of responsibilities.

Being an entrepreneur means being a creative businessperson.

Your own business growth and success depends on many things, and along that growing path, you are going to have to concede certain responsibilities and activities - whether for your accounting, your production, or day-to-day management.

If you ever hope to get ahead as an entrepreneur, the answer is not becoming an effective juggler, but in understanding and designing the systems to keep your team, not you, busy, busy, busy.

The thing is that when you are a director, you need to be involved in a lot of different fields. You must be a psychologist, an architecture expert; you must be a choreographer.

I love spreadsheets. I do all the finances. I pay the publicists. I have to compartmentalize the creative and the business, so there are sacrifices. But ultimately, I get to be the CEO of my own business.

Sometimes, when you're building a company, out of necessity there's just a gazillion things you have to learn and figure out.

Building a successful business requires a combination of human capital, financial resources, market opportunity, persistence, community support, and even luck.

My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.

Coaching was something I've never had much interest in. I've always been a big-picture guy, like a manager has to be.