Dave Ramsey Quotes

I really don't spend my money that much unless I'm reinvesting in my business.

I started LearnVest with a tiny savings account where I paid designers, technologists, and even bartered... Because I started with paying for things myself with my own savings, it sharpened my focus of how to spend money.

The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.

What makes small business develop into big business is not spending, but saving and capital accumulation.

For resourceful tech founders, finding capital is rarely a problem; making the best use of it is another story. A few years slinging pepperoni pies and chicken wings - on tiny margins and with minimal investment - might not be the worst fiscal training.

I found it very helpful not to do the venture round. Instead, I started with very little money, a few thousand dollars, and I did every job myself. I was the first photographer. I was the first customer service rep. I was the first online marketing person.

A savvy entrepreneur will not always look for investment money, first.

That's part of being an entrepreneur - you watch your pennies.

I like the challenge of growing small companies into big global companies.

In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.

I started Shutterstock without any outside funding; I believe in creating a lean startup. By not taking outside investors early, I was forced to use every dollar I had as efficiently as possible. And I was able to keep a large part of the company.

I didn't want to take anybody else's money. I wanted to do something small that could be profitable from the beginning, and grow that way - and never need someone to write me a check to keep the business going.

Growing your own business is great. Watching your ideas come to life, taking care of new customers and watching them become repeat customers, and successfully building your team is a feeling that can't be matched.

I'm still a very frugal person. But everything that does get spent is a reinvestment into my own music.

An entrepreneur, whether man or woman, has to be willing to take help, whether financial or technical, to grow his or her business.

A lot of people ask, 'How did you start the business, and how did you do it money-wise?' And the truth is that I had three jobs. A day job, an evening job, and then designing my collection as well. That's just how we did it.

I've been investing in and funding myself since day one.

It's amazing how small business owners figure out how to stretch a dollar as far as they possibly can.

Starting a business from scratch and having little money in the bank focuses your mind in a way that running a multibillion-dollar business never does. It brings the key drivers of performance into sharp relief. I promise.

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

Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business.

I want to help small businesses grow and thrive. I know how to make that happen. I spent my life in the private sector. I know why jobs come and why they go.

Never let your small business make you small-minded.

We should want small business, large business all doing well. We shouldn't want to punish them for the simple reason that they've gone into business, which is what the Democrats do.

The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo.