Aslaug Magnusdottir Quotes

Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world.

As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some sort.

I think that anyone who wants to start their own business can, but not any type of business.

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

I really want to work for myself and build a business from nowhere.

How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea.

I have a business background. I have always wanted to open my own business.

You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we've come up with doing that is through companies.

You start a business, and you really don't have much of a budget.

Starting a business is not for everyone. Starting a business - I'd say, number one is have a high pain threshold.

The economic costs of starting your own business can be significant; in fact, most new startup companies fail because of undercapitalization.

I just came from school one day and told my mom I want to start my finance company.

It's tough for people to get into business, especially a small business.

As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work.

Very few entrepreneurs start their business on the back of market research. Instead, they have tremendous zeitgeist, honed by paying attention to where they are.

If you have a fantastic idea you're really passionate about and are making $100,000 in your job, if you can set aside some of that to invest in servers or contractors or other folks, that's actually the best way to start a business in my opinion.

I've always been an entrepreneur. I start businesses for a living.

My first business deal was with my mother. I invested in chickens. I sold the eggs to my mother.

You've got to know business before you go to show business.

I'd start a business again in a heartbeat. Indeed, I hope that one day I may get the chance to do so when my mission here in Washington, D.C. is complete.

A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.

My first venture was to trade bicycle parts and hosiery yarn. The initial days proved to be difficult, and I earned very little from my business. But I kept at it. Each day, when I retired for the night, I told myself that money would come in the next day.

I don't think you should ever start a business and move in a direction where you can't see it becoming a business.

You cannot get into business for the fashion of it.

My dad started his business, No Limit, for himself.