Scott Turow Quotes

My role is to try to remove the impediments to entrepreneurs' chance to succeed. It's about improving the business climate to give people a better chance of succeeding.

Everyone, young and old, must have access to the knowledge and skills to participate in the evolving economy.

One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

I recall an 18-year-old girl named Rachel in Zambia who was given a grant to start a business of her choosing. She decided to breed goats so she could sell the meat and the milk, and donate the kids to orphan children. She herself was an orphan, stepping into young adulthood with no resources, and it was her first opportunity to earn her own money.

A co-founder is like being somebody's parent: You want to make sure your offspring thrive.

My father worked in currency exchange, and my mother is a businesswoman.

I meet a lot of people with my BBC Breakfast job who have great businesses.

I am not a politician. I'm an American businessman and entrepreneur that have built two businesses, and I try to play it straight with people.

'Bazillion Dollar Club' follows six struggling startups trying to get their products together.

In terms of what I wanted to do before I got into politics, I was a businessman. I ran a company that makes and sells infrared night vision military technology and solar technology, so I wanted to grow that company and pursue groundbreaking technology in each of those areas.

I want to get my MBA. I want to create my own business. When I'm finished with football, I want a seamless transition to life and work and what I've dreamed about doing all my life.

No first-time entrepreneur has the business network of contacts needed to succeed. An incubator should be well integrated into the local business community and have a steady source of contacts and introductions.

Business is the salt of life, which not only gives a grateful smack to it, but dries up those crudities that would offend, preserves from putrefaction and drives off all those blowing flies that would corrupt it.

If we decide to take this level of business creating ability nationwide, we'll all be plucking chickens for a living.

Entrepreneurship is about turning what excites you in life into capital, so that you can do more of it and move forward with it.

Most of what I learned as an entrepreneur was by trial and error.

I've always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I'd read business journals and the business sections of newspapers.

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.

When I looked into the mechanics of being a businessman, I found it wasn't rocket science.

Everybody has a product to sell—no matter whether you’re an employee, a founder, or an investor. It’s true even if your company consists of just you and your computer. Look around. If you don’t see any salespeople, you’re the salesperson.

I love business. I love helping urban communities grow. I love putting people to work of color. I love making sure - like right now the whole mortgage crisis, I want to help people get back into their homes.

I feel that one of the best things a person can do for another is to create a job. So you do OK commercially, and then you try to make a difference of some sort.

Building a business and becoming a billionaire is it's not championship. It's the competence; the competence in your sector with other companies not looking to have some kind of records in this issue.

If you've got a business - you didn't build that.

A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking into his accounts.