Peter Levine Quotes

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

I never studied business. It's either in your DNA, or it isn't.

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.

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

What you get out of an M.B.A. programme, no matter how much experience, is functional tools and understanding in disciplines: you'll understand economics, you'll understand marketing, finance, accounting. That, M.B.A. programmes do very well.

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.

If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I think the principles of creative leadership apply everywhere, whether it's an advertising company or whether you're running a hospital.

I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows how to run a business, knows the numbers.

I think I am a savvy businesswoman.

I've got no business acumen whatsoever.

In Joe Yorio you find a guy who's smarter at business than I am. I'm an entrepreneur and idea guy; he's a professional businessman.

Technical co-founders are great at envisioning where the company's going from a strategic standpoint. They have what I call the 'gut-feel' of building out their business.

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

Ignore the stock market, ignore the economy, and buy a business you understand.

I see myself as a classic middle market entrepreneur, and this is the role I fulfil.

I love being a businessman much more than being a hacker.

A lot of people especially want to know about going into business. But it's a two-way conversation.

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

I tried acting and all of the arts, I even put out a record album, but what I like the most is business.

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

Successful entrepreneurship is ultimately a matter of flair. But there is also a fund of practical knowledge to be acquired and, of course, the right legal and financial framework has to be provided for productive enterprise to develop.

Bill Gates really seems to be much more of a business man than a technologist, while I prefer to think of Linux in technical terms rather than as a means to money. As such, I'm not very likely to make the same kind of money that Bill made.

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.

Business is business, no child's play.