Tadashi Shoji Quotes

I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.

My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.

I consider myself lucky that Sheila Johnson, the cofounder of Black Entertainment Television, didn't choose to rest on her very impressive business laurels. Her luscious 100 percent modal scarves, printed with photos she takes all over the world, are gorgeous. Wearing one is like being wrapped in a hug.

The entire time I was modeling, I was trying and failing at businesses. In fact, we would have started our business much sooner had I been more successful.

I want to combine a business major with studies in clothing and textiles.

More than 100 million women have worn my clothing and accessories,, and that's so fulfilling. My skincare line proves you don't have to spend a fortune to have beautiful skin. I've loved acting but if I never played another role and just focused on my business, I'd be happy.

You can't go into business thinking that success will come to you in just one or two years.

The infomercial business has been good to me.

Designing is so easy - it's the business that is hard. That's why you really have to respect Ralph Lauren - look at what he's done. Anybody who can sustain themselves should be applauded.

Obviously, many people may remember me as the first winner of 'The Apprentice,' but prior to that, I was an entrepreneur. I started my first business when I was in college, and then getting my lucky break was when Donald Trump hired me on.

Every time a consumer walks into a retail store, experiences the Nokia experience for the first time and purchases that product. Those are the moments where you say, 'We've hit it. We've nailed it.'

I built a great company, one of the - some of the most iconic assets in the world, $10 billion of net worth, more than $10 billion of net worth, and frankly, I had a great time doing it.

I worked in the family business, which was my father's shoe making company that he had inherited from his father, and that led me to become interested in what could be achieved by a great Italian brand. That became my ambition as a young man.

I sensed my chance and embraced the telecom business. I started marketing telephones, answering/fax machines under the brand name Beetel, and the company picked up really fast.

I prospered very quickly. Very quickly, I became politically empowered. I was running my own business.

I've had a great experience in the fashion business.

We've got to start making people realise that it's a proud thing to run a business, to export your goods around the country.

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

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.

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

Whatever business you are in, every company can shoot for the start in their own way.

All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

There is only one way to make a great deal of money; and that is in a business of your own.

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

If you're looking to become an entrepreneur then don't waste your time going to university or business school - just get on and do it.