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Don't start a business. Find a problem, Solve a problem, The business comes second. -- Robert Herjavec
Realize that your life situation will never line up perfectly for you to start a business. -- Ehab Atalla
It's not just that families can't buy a home or start a business without some savings tucked away. -- Jim Cooper
There is never a bad time to start a business - unless you want to start a mediocre one. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
Many people start a business only to make money. Just to make money is not a strong enough mission. -- Robert Kiyosaki
If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life. -- Fran Tarkenton
Embrace your fire - even in hard times. A down economy can actually be a great time to start a business. -- Jean Chatzky
I don't think you should ever start a business and move in a direction where you can't see it becoming a business. -- Kevin Systrom
Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas. -- Natalie Massenet
Get me selling and I can figure out the industry. Once I can figure out the industry I can start a business in that industry. -- Mark Cuban
About 10 million people start a business each year, and about one out of two will make it. The average entrepreneur is often on his or her third startup. -- Brad D. Smith
When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up. -- Tamara Mellon
No matter how long the preparation, you will never feel ready to write an exam, to start a business, to be parent or even to die. Just go for it. -- Moffat Machingura
Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world. -- Gavin Newsom
The Web and new technology offer more opportunities to reach a world market at a lower price. Today, a person can start a business at home and reach the world market. -- Robert Kiyosaki
I'd start a business again in a heartbeat. Indeed, I hope that one day I may get the chance to do so when my mission here in Washington, D.C. is complete. -- Mike Pompeo
Usually when there are a lot of layoffs, like in 2008 and 2009, business creation tends to spike. But that didn't happen right away, partly because people trying to start a business couldn't get credit. -- Brad D. Smith
You know who a complicated tax code kills? The guy or gal trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home. So we've got to simplify our tax code. -- Marco Rubio
When I visit local communities, people often complain that they need the approval of several dozen government departments to get something done or to start a business, and people are quite frustrated about this. -- Li Keqiang
Passion--it's the driving force that you just can't ignore. It's what will make your new adventure seem more like fun, than work. It's the difference between wanting to start a business and craving it. -- Mac Anderson
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. -- Richard Branson
Take control of who you report to, what you do, what you create. Or start a business on the side. Deliver some value, any value, to anybody, to somebody, and watch that value compound into a career. -- James Altucher
But let me tell you what happens when regulations go too far, when they seem to exist only for the purpose of justifying the existence of a regulator. It kills the people trying to start a business. -- Marco Rubio
Recessions are the best time to start a company. Companies fail. Others hold back capital. If you are willing to do the preparation and work, it is the best time to invest in yourself and start a business. -- Mark Cuban
I know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and, yes, I know how it can help from time- to-time. -- Mitt Romney
I can't help thinking if she-the director of a government agency-is this ignorant about what funding is available and where the money comes from-how often lower-level bureaucrats must give wrong answers when people are looking for help to start a business. -- Matthew Lesko
If you have a fantastic idea you're really passionate about and are making $100,000 in your job, if you can set aside some of that to invest in servers or contractors or other folks, that's actually the best way to start a business in my opinion. -- Matt Mullenweg
I think we can be the very best place to start a business, to grow a business, to invent a new technology, to change the world, to change the country. But we've got a lot of work to deliver a new California to the people of California. -- Meg Whitman
In school, you get a limited view of the world. Start working. Find your passion. Take your time doing that. Once you've found what you're passionate about, then lock down. Even if you want to start a business, it's helpful to work, see how other businesses are run. -- Joe Mansueto
If you are under the illusion that you can start a business and run it at your life's schedule, you are mistaken. The business is like a starving puppy - when it needs to eat, then it needs to eat regardless of what you have going on personally. -- Robert Herjavec
If start-up activity is the true engine of job creation in America, one thing is clear: our current educational system is acting as the brakes. Simply put, from kindergarten through undergraduate and grad school, you learn very few skills or attitudes that would ever help you start a business. -- Michael Ellsberg
Only morons start a business on a loan? -- Mark Cuban
When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit. -- Ice T
You start a business, and you really don't have much of a budget. -- Fred DeLuca
There are many programs specifically aimed at helping people in poverty start a business. -- Matthew Lesko
Never start a business just to 'make money'. Start a business to make a difference. -- Marie Forleo
There has never been a better time in the history of time than right now to start a business. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
I've always been an entrepreneur. I start businesses for a living. -- Jay S. Walker
Money is a very fundamental ingredient in anyone starting up a new business. -- Lloyd Dorfman
As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work. -- Kevin McCarthy
I have a foundational belief that business results start with culture and your people. -- Douglas Conant
When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date. -- Wayne Rogers
That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story. -- Mitt Romney
I started out years ago as a theater major and got disillusioned with it. It's a rough business. -- Frank Silva
In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men. -- Hanna Rosin
Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists. -- Tommy Rettig
Charity is very difficult to do right. Thinking through what people need: You can't start a charity without that. It's like starting a business without the product. -- Manoj Bhargava
I started in the supermarket business in the early '70s. And by '75, '76, I realized you don't have a business unless you own the real estate. -- John Catsimatidis
I have become a subscriber for 'Business Week.' It teaches me a lot about business, and I have really started to get into it. I'm interested in business and learning about how everything works. -- Marko Jaric
Start a business plan for yourself, not for anyone else. -- Alexa Von Tobel
To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big. -- Aliko Dangote
The true start-up of a business is what happens before you start-up. -- Michael Gerber
The true start-up of a business is what happens before you start-up. -- Michael Gerber
Business is like a wheel barrow. Nothing happens until you start pushing. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Just start. A small business can take you to the level of empire. -- Ehab Atalla
If everyone had to start up their own business, socialism would soon die. -- James Cook
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The No.1 thing people can do to increase their wealth is to start a part-time business. -- Robert Kiyosaki
For me, the winning strategy in any start-up business is, 'Think big but start small.' -- Carmen Busquets
Whatever business you are in, every company can shoot for the start in their own way. -- Richard Branson
I admire the courage and self-reliance it takes to start your own business and make it succeed. -- Martha Stewart
It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one. -- Harold S. Geneen
Too many start up business fail simply because their owners continue to think and act like employees. -- Michael LeBoeuf
Once you understand business models you can then start prototyping business models just like you prototype products. -- Alexander Osterwalder
It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one. -- Harold S. Geneen
The quickest way to become a millionaire in the airline business is to start out as a billionaire. -- Richard Branson
I was going to start a housekeeping business at one point because I'm really good at cleaning houses. -- Britt Robertson
I think that anyone who wants to start their own business can, but not any type of business. -- Dave Ramsey
From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people ... it needs no other passport than fun. -- Bertolt Brecht
I didn't start the business to make a pile of money. I did it to preserve myself for old age. -- Elrey Borge Jeppesen
How do you make a small fortune in the wine business? Start with a large fortune and buy a winery. -- Kevin Zraly
Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Wanna run a killer business? Design it from the start so that it's leverageable, expandable, predictable & financeable - & you're unstoppable. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
What's so wonderful about business is that every time I start thinking I'm special, I get knocked on my ass. -- Fran Tarkenton
I always knew I wanted to start my own line. Nights and weekends, I would work on my business plan. -- Chris Benz
Those back-to-back experiences confirmed what I already knew: That I was a shitty-ass employee and I'd better start my own business. -- Mark Cuban
If you have a business model that relies on customers being misinformed, you better start working on changing your business model. -- Jeff Bezos
I am going to cut taxes massively. I am going to cut business taxes massively. They're going to start hiring people. -- Donald Trump
After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May 93. -- Daniel Boulud
Write that novel. Start that business you've always wanted to. The ultimate high of life is the commitment to pursuing something. -- Diana Nyad
Ideally, since 80 percent of your life is spent working, you should start your business around something that is a passion of yours -- Richard Branson
I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap. -- Robert Wyatt
The difficulty with businessmen entering politics, after they've had a successful business career, is that they want to start at the top. -- Harry S. Truman
I don't envy anybody trying to start a career right. There really is no music business left, in a lot of ways. -- Aimee Mann
The music business would be much better, for the youth and the kids, if they start hiring employees that understand the kids. -- Suge Knight
Your business will look totally different from your customer's viewpoint, so jump the counter and start to see things from their perspective. -- Feargal Quinn
Imagine if your business burned down and you had to walk across the street and start again, what would you do differently? -- Brian Tracy
It's a given that if you start your own business, you're going to be (1) in control of your destiny, and (2) real busy. -- Georgette Mosbacher
I think it's important we continue to find new ways for start-up businesses to get access to funding, mentorship and business advice. -- Richard Branson
After six years at Le Cirque, I decided to start my own business. I opened Daniel at 76th Street in May '93. -- Daniel Boulud
It sounds boring, but anything is easy to start-starting a novel, starting a business ... it's keeping the thing going that is difficult. -- Prue Leith
When all of your friends are getting pregnant, you start thinking about it. But for Amy and I, show business is our baby. -- Will Arnett
Have you ever been tempted to start your own business- First read this cautionary tale, especially if you think your ideas come from God. -- Phil Vischer
If people in America would get their finances together and start taking care of each other, we could put the government out of business. -- Dave Ramsey
This is a tough business for anyone, especially if you start out young. I feel really lucky about the way things have turned out. -- Tempestt Bledsoe
When you start out in the wrestling business, you make a lot of mistakes, tripping over your own feet and looking like a fool. -- Hulk Hogan
Its easier to start a global business than a local one, make your business one where you can work from anywhere in the world -- Roger James Hamilton
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. -- John Caudwell
Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start. -- Bobby Darin
What's so wonderful about football and business and show business is that every time I start thinking I'm special, I get knocked on my ass. -- Fran Tarkenton
Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It's the nature of the business. -- J. Michael Straczynski
Very few entrepreneurs start their business on the back of market research. Instead, they have tremendous zeitgeist, honed by paying attention to where they are. -- Margaret Heffernan
Write. Enjoy writing. Then, and only then, worry about the business end of it. Start loving your hobby, and then you can't go too wrong. -- Arthur Phillips
When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there's less and less time for songwriting. -- Josh Turner
I want young people to know there is no age limit to when they can start their own business or when they can become a boss. -- Zendaya
Life in the restaurant business can provide a start in the working world for young people or a stable living for many Americans and their families. -- Kevin McCarthy
The business is so international now; you'll be working on an American film, and you'll start chatting to someone, and it's like: 'Oh, you're English, too.' -- Imogen Poots
It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow. -- Mel Smith
I decided to start my own label because so many people with talent come to me wanting to know how they can get in the music business. -- Mary J. Blige
That 95 per cent. fail of those who start in business upon their own account seems incredible, and yet such are said to be the statistics upon the subject. -- Andrew Carnegie
I was one of those guys who never wanted to start their own business. I never saw myself as a leader. I saw myself as a great No. 2. -- Robert Herjavec
What other people think of you is not your business. If you start to make that business your business, you will be offended for the rest of your life. -- Deepak Chopra
If we start deciding, based on guesses or emotions, whether we will or won't participate in a business where we should have some long run edge, we're in trouble. -- Warren Buffett
Did you know that Kodak actually invented the digital camera that ultimately put it out of business? Kodak had the patents and a head start, but ignored all that. -- Peter Diamandis
Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money. -- Ian MacKaye
Look at your business and the activities that you undertake. Then, start to think about not just your economic concerns, but about social and environmental impacts that businesses have. -- Jerry Greenfield
In general foreign invested companies who come to America to start a company, to open a manufacturing business or whatnot, they actually provide much higher wages than American companies. -- Adam McKay
Everything is interconnected. The moment you take philosophy, psychology, religion and business and look at the underlying commonalities, that's when you start looking at business in a different way. -- Jochen Zeitz
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