Martha Stewart Quotes

There are three rules for running a business; fortunately, we don't know any of them.

Everything has to be done for a reason, and everything has to be done to make sense in terms of running a proper business today, and it's not just about the food.

I didn't know how to run a business. I was a terrible gallerist, the worst in history, possibly.

I love doing deals and operating companies.

I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.

Most regular, two-year MBA programs provide both experience and the capacity to link together the essential elements of management such as finance, marketing, organizational behavior, and operations.

I spent most of my career operating businesses and fixing businesses, not staring at a Bloomberg screen.

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.

I'm an inventor. I don't enjoy running the business.

Your first job, as an owner and an entrepreneur, has to be to understand how the business is going to actually work.

I've run businesses with thousands of people. I've run businesses with 10 people.

The failure rate for gym owners and personal trainers is very high because it is very difficult for them to work on their business when they are busy working in their business.

I'm a business owner.

Ignore the stock market, ignore the economy, and buy a business you understand.

Running a business is not the same as being president of the United States.

When I looked into the mechanics of being a businessman, I found it wasn't rocket science.

Business is business, no child's play.

Business is what concerns us. If you care about something enough to do something about it, you're in business

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

To run a successful business, you have to be tough.

Almost any mistake you can make in running a company, I've probably made

I just follow my nose, and instead of letting someone run my affairs and probably make me wealthy within a matter of years, I've just kept the board of directors down to zero. I make all the decisions, and they can't all be right, and my lifestyle is very expensive, so that means I have to work a lot. It's the opposite side of the coin from sinking back into the recliner and becoming somebody they bury.

Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.

We should not say how's business, but where is business

Business runs hot and cold so the more you're in charge of your own destiny, the better off you are.