Lily Tomlin Quotes

I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar.

There are companies with management and companies with money. You can always find money. Management is the key to success in any business.

How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea.

The word 'commercial' implies a notion of profit.

My first attempt at a business was a jumble sale which I ran at the end of my next door neighbour's drive. I used to rummage through her garage, looking for anything that I thought people might buy. I'd then set up a table and try to sell what I could to the people walking by.

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

Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.

Because I didn't have much money, I bought a small shop that fit my budget. The previous six owners had closed their business in three years. The store had no people traffic and, because of that, I was able to focus on figuring out how to provide a better service to each and every one of the customers that did come through.

From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

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.

I've made a profit from everything I have done in life.

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.

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.

Business is other people's money.

I don't have good business sense. You never get much money for the arts. But I like independence. I like to grow.

Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan.

Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

My first business deal was with my mother. I invested in chickens. I sold the eggs to my mother.

Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.

You've got to know business before you go to show business.

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

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Conventional wisdom suggests the primary motivator for entrepreneurs is money or wealth creation and, in fact, much of the political debate tends to center around what kind of tax or regulatory policy changes will turn corporate suits into small business adventurers overnight.

As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some sort.