Paul Newman Quotes

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

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

To be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running, and if you have a good team around you and more than a fair share of luck, you might make something happen. But you certainly can't guarantee it just by following someone else's formula.

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

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

For entrepreneurs, ignorance is not bliss. It's fatal. It's costly. And it's for losers. You either get organized, or get crushed.

I really do have rules for running and managing a business that have never been formalized before.

Every business, like a painting, operates according to its own rules. There are many ways to run a successful company. What works once may never work again. What everyone tells you never to do may just work, once.

Businessmen must move with the times...the correlation between knowledge and business as the key to success is closer than ever.

I'm a big fan of Kiss. Gene Simmons, he's all into marketing and branding. You name it, there's some type of product with Kiss' name on it. Studying people like that, you see guys have hooks and there are reasons people are successful.

Most entrepreneurs will admit luck plays a part in success.

Competition is. In every business, no matter how small or how large, someone is just around the corner forever trying to steal your ideas and build his success out of your imagination, struggling after that which you have toiled endless years to secure, striving to outdo you in each and every way. If such a competitor would work as hard to originate as he does to copy, he would much more quickly gain success.

Business is hard, really hard, but it's worth it.

Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.

Everybody wants to make something they think is a surefire winner, though nobody knows what a surefire winner is, in my opinion.

Business is business, no child's play.

Without the right attitude, a business with everything going for it will fail.

Business runs hot and cold so the more you're in charge of your own destiny, the better off you are.

Business is what concerns us. If you care about something enough to do something about it, you're in business

Being able to touch so many people through my businesses and make money while doing it, is a huge blessing.

In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.

...." I was rather discouraged when I discovered that Paul and Hotch had no marketing survey, no business plan, no budget, no organized strategy for the introduction of the sauce. When asked about this lack of preparation, the haphazard nature of their business, Paul said, 'Me in this business is just part of life's great folly. Stay loose, men, keep 'em off balance.'"

I am a great believer that you need passion and energy to create a truly successful business. Remember many new businesses do not make it and running a business will be a tough experience, involving long hours and many hard decisions - it helps to have that passion to keep you going.

I ain't no gangster. I'm a grown man trying to run a business.

My father has created an enormous business and he's created an enormous brand for himself, and I'm contributing to the business that he's built every day at The Trump Organization