Leandra Medine Quotes

As an entrepreneur, the pressures of a startup can be enormous, but it's rarely life or death.

It's much more difficult running a business than buying one.

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.

It's stressful when you run a company.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.

The most important thing is to be passionate and ready to accept the pains that sometimes go along with the business.

You learn every single day when you're running a company. You learn as you go.

Focused. I'm a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else.

As creators, we feel constant demand for innovation from the world. This puts immense pressure on the creative process and oftentimes can have a dampening effect.

Now I don't work for the money or the glory. I just work because I like building businesses.

Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.

Entrepreneurs see the thing they want or need, then try to figure out a process of how to get it. People who shouldn't be entrepreneurs see the standard process they need to go through to get the thing they want or need then decide if they want to go through that process.

It helps to have founded and run a company if you're going to help somebody run a company who is a founder.

I never had a job. I bought my first house within a year of getting out of school, and I built a custom one four and a half years later. The Art Center didn't teach much about business, but I learned a lot from the Fortune 500 companies that were my clients.

Entrepreneurs, because they need money, they are willing to share their crystal ball with someone like me. That's the best thing ever.

If you're going to run a small business, you need to know what everyone is doing, be the first one in and the last one out, and work weekends.

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.

When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me.

Running a company is pretty demanding.

I came from Bill Blass, where it was a well-oiled machine and if I said I needed a fabric, it was done. Now, I have to budget everything. I have to take on the role not just as a designer but a business. But I'm a glass half-full kind of guy.

I am a very hands-on person, and I like to be involved in driving my business.

People have said, 'Why don't you make your own company like Chan-wook Park has his own company,' but my head is full of writing and directing and I don't feel like I want to run a company. That's not really within my personality as well.

Managing a business, small or large, today requires an extremely disciplined, thoughtful approach with regard to the pressure that people are under.

Thinking big is only one part of being a successful entrepreneur.