Marcus Lemonis Quotes

It's good to work for someone else. Because then you appreciate it more when you are an entrepreneur.

You learn really quickly how not only to be an artist, but you also become all of a sudden the CEO and owners of a company that you have to make major decisions about that I don't think we were fully prepared for in the beginning.

As an entrepreneur, it's easy to feel ownership over every aspect of your business because you're putting your reputation, your money, and other people's money on the line. Oh, and you're sleeping, breathing, and eating your passion project - that, too. But if you try to do it all yourself, you're almost certain to fail.

People want to work, but they don't want to necessarily want to do labour.

I'm lucky I get to work a lot.

One of the reasons that I'm still in the military - or I stayed in the military - is because I think the military has been a place where certainly people could improve, advance, and were treated fairly.

I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.

My father was a chef but hadn't owned his own business. I didn't like that. In my heart of hearts, I knew I wanted to be in business.

You would think that when someone accepts a position with a company, they would assume that their life will be better off because they have that job rather than a different one.

I love comics work, and I hope I never stop doing it. But at the same time, I have my own law practice that I've built up over quite a while - it's been more than a decade that I've spent building that business - so it seems a little premature to just shut it down after nine months of working at a high level in comics. We'll see.

My last two years of high school, I did work-study half the day, and I ran the restaurant. It was just this little restaurant, but it was just so cool. I had 35, 40 employees.

These days we seem more bound to our bosses than ever before. We even identify our own selves with the jobs we do: 'What do you do?' is the first question we ask each other at parties, as if a job title could express a fundamental truth about our personality.

New York is very career-orientated and it's hard to take time off here, but that is great for building a business.

For me, Company is still the best way for me to work.

I work with the options I have in front of me and my reasons for choosing a job can vary enormously depending on the circumstances. Sometimes I take a job because it's a group of people I'm dying to work with, and sometimes it can be a desire to shake things up a bit and not to take myself too seriously.

I want to be an entrepreneur too; I like the business side of things. When I was younger I wanted to be a vet or a tightrope walker. But I have no sense of balance and I can't bear animals dying, so I abandoned both ideas.

There are very few groups that really stay together. The leaders of groups make enough money to be able to afford to work a maximum of 35-40 weeks a year.

I love working in America, I love being part of the industry out here.

We need to give workers more control over their training, health care, and their pensions.

The 35-hour week has from the moment of its inception been a massive mistake. We need to return to people the joy of work.

Japanese were too loyal to companies, and young people see what happened: the loyalty was wasted. They think: 'Look at Americans. They job hop. They seem to be free. That's the way we want to live.'

There's a level of ease that comes with working in Australia that can be missed working in other places.

I'm an entrepreneur. This is my life. This my career. This the way I eat.

At the risk of being glib, I would say if you really want to make America great again, you have to make work cool again.

I just want to work.