Jaycie Phelps Quotes

I never went to college. But the structure I grew up with was planted so deep that when it came to doing business, I knew how to be disciplined, create teamwork, and persevere. It set me up to be an entrepreneur and a successful franchiser.

Taking risks and being focused, sometimes, are at odds. Both are required to build a great company.

In business for yourself, not by yourself.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

My dad has been a big influence on me, because he's always had his own business. He really taught me business sense and how to be a focused individual, but also how to have fun and make everyone around you have fun.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

You must relate athletic experiences to life.

It's the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

There's a lot I need to improve on. YAC, which I'm last in. Being a better leader. Not getting frustrated when things aren't going my way.

I'm not Jadeveon Clowney; I'm Deshaun Watson, so I just focus on me and what I can do for my team. I stay in my own lane and do what I've got to do.

You can't be successful in business without taking risks. It's really that simple.

Jim Newman, the business visionary who created the term 'comfort zone,' showed me how to expand my horizons. Thanks to Jim, after I attended one of his PACE Seminars in 1978; I moved out of my comfort zone at Bear Stearns and became a super successful oilman.

The most important characteristics you need to succeed in business are resilience, determination and persistence.

One of the biggest reasons entrepreneurs don't succeed is because they have too many chiefs. You've got to bring in the right people to make the right decisions.

Business is the ultimate sport. In business, as in sport, the one thing you can control is effort.

I've always wanted to be the best in the world as a baseball player, so when I started to think about opening a business, it was with that mindset.

There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too.

Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.

I used to be focused on being the dopest rapper in the game, and then once that became what I was, I wanted something different, and I wanted to become the best businessman in the game. I wanted to learn how to master the business like I mastered the rap.

I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and self-discipline and self-confidence. It's been a big thing for me.

I think that business book reporting, it's all Jim Collins, it's the story of victory; it's success bias over and over again.

The only hard-and-fast rules a Perot must operate under are getting a sound education; being honest and ethical in our business dealings; treating the people who work for us with respect and dignity; and, finally, a Perot cannot be afraid to take risks when appropriate.

This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.

I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.