Denise Morrison Quotes

No matter what, once the doors are open for business, the entrepreneur has no choice but to be directing multiple attacks at once - raising money, writing software, prototyping, selling, collecting, training, and marketing.

There's only two things that I really care about - apart from family - one is business and the other is women in business.

I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.

I've never isolated role models based on gender. I have more male role models due to the mere fact that I've done business with more of them and they're leaders within the verticals I work. Of those, Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com, is an entrepreneur and personal friend that I have a great deal of respect for.

I always knew I wanted to start my own line. Nights and weekends, I would work on my business plan.

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

When you found a company, you have the original vision, you make all the original decisions, you know every employee, you kind of know every aspect of the product architecture and its limitations.

When you're a young talent, and you want to launch your brand, you always have tons of questions: Where should I produce? Should I launch a second line? Should I do shoes, accessories? If you have someone who can coach you and give you advice and help you find the right supplier, it's a big help.

I've helped some of my classmates on how to strategize to get to the next level of their businesses. And it's interesting, because here I am sitting there from the entertainment industry and the fashion industry, and I'm giving a billionaire that has a business that's been in his family for 300 years - I'm giving him advice about strategy!

Running a business anywhere isn't easy.

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.

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.

We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own meatloafs, our own pickles. Dad had to do everything himself. He had to figure out how to finance his business.

My mom and I had a kids' clothing store called Smooch for six years, and I did all the buying before I even had kids.

All those lessons that I've learned on the court, I have applied them to my life outside of the court in business, my company, called V Starr interiors, an interior design company, and EleVen, which I wear on court.

I'm just interested in building a company that doesn't necessarily change lives but adapts people's behaviour.

When I was growing up, my father helped kindle my passion for innovation and technology. He was a high-ranking executive at AT&T and used our family dinner table as a focus group.

I received most of my business education around the dinner table. Whether I listened to my father or brothers, or we had business people as dinner guests, I learned from everyone.

All business is basically about customers and marketing and making money and capitalism and winning and promoting it and having something someone really wants.

I've run businesses with thousands of people. I've run businesses with 10 people.

My mom actually, she does this for a living. She has her own company called Carter and Tracy Incorporated, and she helps young athletes get started, whether it's dealing with housing or dealing with their money, and I know she always has best interests in me, not only because I'm her son, but because of what she does for her job.

During the day, I'm a business owner. I'm a teacher and a mentor.

I'm Shaggy. I'm a business.

Marc Lore has been a mentor of mine for a long time. He taught me how to hire people and how to do the hardest thing in business, which is to make a great culture. I believe Marc is the most innovative and ambitious e-commerce entrepreneur on the planet.

I am an entrepreneur. Beyond that, I am a mother and part of a wonderful family that is part of a wonderful business.