Sanford I. Weill Quotes

I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.

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.

I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.

I have a good eye for great projects, talent, and entrepreneurs.

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

The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis.

People must be realistic when evaluating their business.

Everyone does a style book, and I wanted to write a business book for people that didn't think they would like a business book.

Know the business; you need to know the business side of things.

Know the business, learn the business, own something.

Education around entrepreneurship should start early, at secondary level, and be very robust by college level.

My family never had a business background. We are artistes.

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

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

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.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

No matter what business you're in, business is business, and financing and money are critical. I would have made a lot fewer mistakes if I had more schooling in that area.

I was born in Springfield and raised in West Springfield. My father ran a dry cleaning business and was a salesman.

People follow proven formulas in any business.

Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

I've never been good in the financial and business arenas. I handle the creative side of things.

When I first got into business, I made a lot of bad decisions.

I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.