Snoop Dogg Quotes

I have always wanted to own a homemade ice cream shop!

I saw these new kinds of stores: the Body Shop, the Sock Shop, and I thought to myself, 'I can do that.'

I think it'd be great to own a fun concept store with my friends and just sell books and records.

Well, darling, you can have your tearoom now.

Along the way, I learned the key to launching a company. It's all about storytelling.

No one in my family had a retail or marketing background. They were professionals. They didn't understand just what I was doing by going into retailing. After I started, though, it got into my blood. I knew this was what I wanted.

I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum, play a kazoo, and sing 'Happy Birthday' to people while giving them free birthday sundaes. Lots of ice cream scooping and $1 tips.

I knew nothing about sales, marketing or how to run a company. Nor did I have a desire to do any of those things.

When I have a bad day, I dream about opening up a gelato stand on the streets of Sydney, Australia. Doesn't everyone have a random escape fantasy?

I was very lucky. I started my own commercial company.

The restaurant business is something that you have to treat like a baby. You have to constantly be there. You can't trust it to anybody else, because no one's going to love it like you do.

I'm very interested in my new kitchen equipment shop. I've started it with two friends.

Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don't know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning.

I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.

I think the only thing I would've ever been any good at was probably being a pub landlord. I've thought of that a couple of times.

I'm different from any other designer, businesswise, in that I've built this company up and I own it. I never had business hype behind me to promote my image... My image is real... I have never had marketing people telling me what to do.

From the first day we opened Wynkoop, my brewpub in Denver, I knew I'd be ten times better running a restaurant than I was a geologist.

If I'd really known how hard I was going to have to work behind the scenes to have any kind of business, I think I would have stopped.

Like many entrepreneurs, I started out in sales. I began at 14, when I got a job selling shoes and tennis rackets at a pro shop, and I've been selling one thing or another ever since.

I think of entrepreneurship as a way of creating value.

When you're your own business, and my business is called Nita Strauss Incorporated, and I am my business, so it's not like I get to stop working at 5 p.m. and go home and do other things. It's a full-time job.

My father built a small manufacturing business. I worked alongside him and saw firsthand the challenges that business owners face.

I'm a business owner.

Pretty soon I may have to go back to Canada and buy that lumberyard I've always wanted. I'll probably sell some lumber, bring in some lumber... look at exploiting that lumber somehow. I'm not very schooled in it, but being an actor I feel that I have a keen sensibility with regard to the world of lumber because those two businesses are so similar.

I get bored very fast, so I would like to do something new. Something like a restaurant is attractive. It does seem to be a very tough job though.