Grant Shapps Quotes

Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them.

If there is something to worry about, my mind has a tendency to worry about it. That can cut two ways. It can really keep you on the ball, but if you worry about every little thing, it's not a good use of time and energy.

Thinking about starting a small business? Assume everything will cost twice as much and take twice as long as you think it will.

Wasting your time in anxious worry over what you may not have is a good way to waste what you need to get it.

Better to be busy than to be busy worrying.

If I know somebody is coming 'round, it is incredibly difficult for me to work because I'm waiting for this interruption - even the children's comings and goings are interruptions. Cake-making is a good way of coming out of that space.

I have no organisational skills. All my energy goes into worry - worrying takes a lot of energy.

You know, your whole life you're concerned about money for this and that. And then you don't have to worry about it, so you worry about other stuff.

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.

I always knew I wanted to run a business someday.

We never worry about the big things, just the small things.

If I didn't swim my best, I'd think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy.

Anything will worry me. I may not get a check for the light bill off in time and I just get to worrying. I'm a worrywart.

I've noticed if you look too far ahead, it only works negatively on you.

'This will pass and it always does.' I consistently have to keep telling myself that because being an entrepreneur means that you go to those dark places a lot, and sometimes they're real. You're wondering if you can you make payroll. There is a deadline, and you haven't slept in a while. It's real.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

If I worry about what everybody is saying, there is going to be a lot on my mind. I don't want that.

Running your own business can be the loneliest job in the world. You are the MD, answer the phone and make tea, handle the invoices and have to make payments on time.

Struggling to start a small business is all-encompassing. It is a 24-hour job that places strain on those involved. As well as worrying about your own mortgage and kids, you worry about those of your staff.

I don't waste my time doing my head in about stupid things that don't really matter and don't waste time worrying over nothing.

I've run several of my own small businesses in my life.

The thing that really sticks - and when you talk to entrepreneurs, they say the same - is just thinking about the next day, the next week.

I had a very long and successful career as an entrepreneur, focused on the needs of small to midsize businesses.

Honestly, if I could be anything, I'd love to be a small-business authority type of person.

Worrying about tomorrow is the best way to screw up today.