Lori Greiner quotes:

Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist--while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist!

Not only is a good name catchy and memorable, it should help people understand what your business does. If your name reflects your products or services you'll have a much better chance of being found [via Google search], so it's important to choose wisely.

I like helping people.

Entrepreneurship is the way we take control of our lives in a tough economy.

When I had challenges, it taught me to be more on top of it for the future.Things go wrong all the time when you're running your own business, but it's how you perceive it and deal with it that matters.

In business it is most often all about getting your foot in the door and once you do, everything opens up and things start to naturally progress into bigger and more opportunities.

I prefer to like the people I invest in, but it's not an absolute necessity, as long as they have a good mind and I know they'll do whatever it takes to be successful.

Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week.

Entrepreneurs: The only people who work 80 hour weeks to avoid working 40 hour weeks.

I had an idea, I was passionate about it and I had to work hard to turn that into a big success and more products.

People trust I know what I'm doing. I have lots of credibility. I've had years of learning. I know and understand my business.

I've achieved a certain amount of success and now I'm thinking about the good things I can do.

I had a history for starting something and maybe getting halfway done. Then I'd see the same thing I was doing on the bestseller list! My ideas were right, but I hadn't done them fast enough.

I think running a business, doing what I've done for the last - since 1996, has taught me so many things because I started from just an idea and then had to figure out how to make it, market it, every single thing from soup to nuts on how to get a product done and out there.

Entrepreneurialism is supposed to be fun!

If your home environment is good and peaceful and easy, your life is better and easier.

Reach for the stars; you might just catch one.

As an entrepreneur, you can always find a solution if you try hard enough.

I always recommend, if you can, to patent or protect whatever your idea is. If you can't, you have to make your best judgment. Sometimes people don't get anywhere because they sit on something, so afraid to reveal it. And yet, in the reverse, sometimes if you expose something too widely, you can risk losing it.

A brilliant idea doesn't guarantee a successful invention. Real magic comes from a brilliant idea combined with willpower, tenacity, and a willingness to make mistakes.

I have an innate instinct for knowing what's going to work.

I learned that nobody's better than you to get your business off the ground. The experience you get is priceless.

I roll out of bed in the morning, whenever I want, and I work right away because, to me, that's the life. That's freedom. The whole point for me is that I love the freedom of being an entrepreneur that I do what I want to do when I want to do it.

I think people don't like when you're not confident about what you're pitching, and they don't want to invest in you or get behind you.

In the beginning I was really, really lean. For the longest time I did it all. I played every hat. I was in the factory, doing the graphic design, the photography, the selling - literally everything. I saved money doing what I could myself. It was hard but I learned. I learned that nobody's better than you to get your business off the ground. The experience you get is priceless.

Ive been making products for so long, I have a gut feel for what is right - what will work and what wont. I can tell instantly if its a hero or a zero.

The big thing for me is, I never think about myself as a female in business. I'm a person in business.

You can make anything happen if you put your mind to it.

Your success will have everything to do with how you perceive yourself, because how you perceive yourself is how others will perceive you, too.