Tory Burch Quotes

Whenever you start a new business, the sheer number of variables at hand makes failure a constant possibility.

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

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That's the classic great entrepreneur.

Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.

All entrepreneurs make decisions. Some will go right, and some will not go that right.

The grim reality is that most start-ups fail. Most new products are not successful. Yet the story of perseverance, creative genius, and hard work persists.

Opening a business is going to be hard work, no matter what choices you make. If you decide to fall on your sword and just slog through all the work as an operator instead of an owner, then you take responsibility for the entire operation and the actions of the business.

Like all small-business owners, I know what it's like to take a risk on an idea, manage cash flow, navigate regulations and tax laws, and create jobs.

A lot of people want to start a business, and they're like, 'I wanna start a business, give me some money to invest.' Where is your business plan? Are you investing money yourself into your own business? How is this going to work? People think that they can just come to you with an idea and have money.

I know exactly what it feels like to be an entrepreneur with everything riding on a sale.

Entrepreneurs love to view risk as binary. The more you put on the line, the greater the potential for reward.

You can't be successful in business without taking risks. It's really that simple.

One reason why entrepreneurs are admired is that they often take on a degree of risk in launching a new business.

I understand the highs and lows of building a global business from the ground and taking that initial product idea all the way to the market.

Every business makes big mistakes along the way.

To any young person starting out on life and looking to make a quick fortune, I have this advice: forget banking, but go instead into security, scaffolding, or urban trench digging. Not in a hands-on way. I mean start a company.

If you want your company to succeed, you have to have the confidence in your business to take a bet on its future - to risk destroying a mediocre business model for the chance to have a strong one.

Everybody told me I was making a mistake by going into this business, but I know how to grow hair as well as I know how to grow cotton.

Nine out of ten businesses fail; so I came up with a foolproof plan - create ten businesses.

You can't run a business without taking risks. The brave may not live forever - but the cautious do not live at all!

If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there'd be millions of no-brained, harebrained, and otherwise dubiously brained individuals quitting their day jobs and hanging out their own shingles. Nobody would be left to round out the workforce and execute the business plan.

With a wonderful business, you can figure out what will happen; you can't figure out when it will happen. You don't want to focus on when, you want to focus on what. If you're right about what, you don't have to worry about when

Part of the entrepreneurial thing is there are lots of ways to die.

(On soft launches) It allows you to test your assumptions and see which ones you got right, and more, importantly, which ones you got wrong. A big hard launch is expensive. Getting even one thing wrong can force you to go out of business.