Erik Prince Quotes

I was voted least likely to manage a business when I was at Dickinson College.

Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a criticism; they're passionate about cutting hair or cooking food, and that's why they got in the business, not because they have an MBA.

I grew up in a household that revered building businesses. It wasn't thinking about leadership; it was more about building something. To build something, you ultimately have to lead.

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

I've always been a businesswoman.

I know this business better than most people, and I'm extremely passionate about it.

Honestly, if I could be anything, I'd love to be a small-business authority type of person.

Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals.

I have always been a business person.

Nobody is actually a natural C.E.O.

There's no reason why I can't be a mogul. When I step into a room and I'm there to have a conversation, if it pertains to business, I want to be respected as a guy who knows what he's talking about. And that, to me, holds more weight than anything else.

I think I have learnt more about business from fighting than anything else - from any book, from any, like - fighting is an incredible megastore for doing business.

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

If I sound like a technology geek, that's probably because I am. But I also love running good businesses.

When I pick my subcommittee chairmen, I look for people that understand what it's like to run successful businesses, who know what it's like to sign the front of the check instead of the back of the check: somebody that gets it.

I am an actor but might not be smart enough to handle business, so it's always good to have intelligent people around who can look into other aspects of business.

I was never, ever interested in becoming a businessman or an entrepreneur. If I was a businessman, or saw myself as a businessman, I would have never gone into the airline business.

As far as business moguls, I'm always a fan of how Jay Z moves. He was just always very strategic ever since he came into the game.

I guess when you go to business school you never turn business off.

I didn't know how to run a business. I was a terrible gallerist, the worst in history, possibly.

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.

but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment.

The primary reason in starting a business part-time is not so much to make a product great. The real reason for starting a part-time business is to make you a great businessperson.

I think you need a really strong businessperson running the state, a person who's used to turning negatives into positives, which is what happens in business.