Justine Bateman Quotes

I always knew I wanted to run a business someday.

The point of an accelerator is to teach you about companies and business, not about technology.

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

It helps to have founded and run a company if you're going to help somebody run a company who is a founder.

I don't think I ever dreamt of going into business. No one in my family was in business.

I remember looking up to most any venture capitalist as someone who could make my little company happen with a single million-dollar check.

I'm a business owner.

I was a salary man for so many years. I never had to worry about the ins and outs of business or entrepreneurship or funding. I just had to show up and do my job. And then, all of a sudden, I was having to be responsible for my own business.

I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never serious about it, and I thought it would be wrong to go through that process.

Relatively few people should start companies.

My dream is to have a small company in France.

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.

I'd like to own my own garage and my own fishery. I'd also like to be a professional fisherman. But I'll take whatever happens.

I hadn't grown up always aspiring to be a CEO.

I have a business background. I have always wanted to open my own business.

From the time I was a kid, I was always interested in any and all kinds of new business ideas.

At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining.

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.

When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me.

Running a company is pretty demanding.

Ask any venture capitalist, and they will tell you that they consider the experience and completeness of the founding team to be a more important factor in their investment decision than the technology that is being built.

People have said, 'Why don't you make your own company like Chan-wook Park has his own company,' but my head is full of writing and directing and I don't feel like I want to run a company. That's not really within my personality as well.

As of 2011, it cost about $5,000 to launch a tech startup.

One thing I'd like to do is angel investing in small companies. That's what's exciting, and if you are lucky to have a bit of money, you can take those risks.

I've been preparing to run a big company all my life.