Heather Bresch Quotes

I think running a business, doing what I've done for the last - since 1996, has taught me so many things because I started from just an idea and then had to figure out how to make it, market it, every single thing from soup to nuts on how to get a product done and out there.

My dad built his business by providing products he figured the customers would want.

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

I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

To be a designer today is to be an entrepreneur. Whether you're a two-man operation in Shoreditch or a 3,000-person, vertically integrated brand, you need to have the wherewithal to run your business through investment, considering everything from start-up funds to your exit plan or what it takes to go public.

You can't manage Wall Street. Wall Street has its own viewpoints on everything. I have always believed, if you manage your business correctly, Wall Street will take care of itself.

I conduct business, not dependent of public sentiment, but according to the rules of fair business.

It's really hard to run a business against somebody who is not acting as if it were in business.

Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.

If you don't operate it as a business, you aren't going to be around very long.

He who puts ... a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest.

Successful entrepreneurship takes complete dedication and careful strategizing along with market analysis. Plus, successful startups provide countless benefits to a healthy economy and consumers in need.

Just like a script, you need to keep a business plan to yourself.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.

People follow proven formulas in any business.

Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.

It's still a bottom-line business. You can be out of control, and if they want you, they'll pick you. And you can be a mensch, and if you're not the product they want, you won't get it.

Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.

It's easier to build a business around a first-class product, even if it's a more expensive product to produce.

I have almost no interest in quarterly reports. Running a business or investing in a business based on quarterly earnings doesn't make any sense at all to me.

As I've said, in 2007, we're free to go and we'll just have to do what's best for the business.

For the last five years I've been in the production business.

People must be realistic when evaluating their business.

You cannot get into business for the fashion of it.