Brian McKnight Quotes

I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side.

As much as you need to know your operations, if you don't understand the finance side and how to do the business, you're never going to be successful. So you might be the best operator or visionary, but if you don't understand the finance side... I'm successful because I know the finance side, but I also know operations; it's not an accident.

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

If you don't operate it as a business, you aren't going to be around very long.

If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.

I have always been a business person.

The business end of business has never interested me.

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

The flakier your mission, the fiercer you have to be on the business side.

I've got no business acumen whatsoever.

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 certainly think you could look at the business side of how WWE was run, which was as a conservative company with little debt and strong cash balance.

When I first came into baseball, people didn't want to hear that a team was a business. But it is. And the better the business is run, the healthier the team on the field is going to be.

It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.

Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.

People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards.

How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.

You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.

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

Know the business, learn the business, own something.

My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did.

I couldn't sell water in a desert. I have no business acumen. I can tell you why you have no business acumen, and I can tell you why your project may or may not work, but I have no ability to make money.

Business books are generally read and written by people who aren't good at business.

I have never had a business mind.

I've learned a lot about business from snowboarding: how companies run, how the game works.