Will Rogers Quotes

I'm a small-town girl, and it'll never be beaten out of me.

I'm a small-town kid from Kerrville, Texas.

I've never isolated role models based on gender. I have more male role models due to the mere fact that I've done business with more of them and they're leaders within the verticals I work. Of those, Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com, is an entrepreneur and personal friend that I have a great deal of respect for.

America is a country of entrepreneurship and great business leaders.

Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.

I'm a small-town kid who grew up with a cornfield in the back yard and dreaming of serving my country in public office.

You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock 'n roll stars.

Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.

In any country, … only a small portion of the income earned in any year is a result of individual work effort, ingenuity and risk-taking. The rest is explained by the natural resources with which that country is endowed, the physical infrastructure, the collective know-how of fellow citizens, the quality of public and private institutions, and the degree of trust that greases the wheels of commerce, politics and everyday life.

I was raised in a small town in Indiana and educated at Ball State University.

It would be easy for someone to think growing up in a small town would be like 'Footloose' or something, that it would be, 'No dancing allowed!' all the time, but it was quite the opposite. People always got excited for me and my successes and supported me even though I was a little weirdo goofball.

Just being from where I'm from, a little small town, I feel like I'm a good judge of character.

As a founder you have to build a team some day, so why not start the day you found the company?

Those that are above business.

One of the best bits of advice I can give is, early on, when you're building a new business, try to find somebody to run it on a day-to-day basis to free yourself up to look at the bigger picture.

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

I care more about the people than about the company. That's why I don't want to own it. I don't want to run a business. People do it better than I do.

Early on in your career, find someone better than yourself to run the business on a day-to-day basis. Remove yourself, maybe even from the building, and from the nitty-gritty. That way, you're going to be able to see the bigger picture and think of new areas to go into.

Now my mom designs to resign so she runs for US senate, and now at 67 my mom just launched a new company called Women's Leadership Live, she is the cofounder and CEO, and it's all about empowering women to be successful in business however they define success. When you have a role model like that you really don't ever look at gender as an issue and it's about owning your place and taking charge of your role, regardless of what you look like.

Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.

A good leader is always looking for people smarter and more experienced than they are. If you are the smartest one in the room, then you are stupid.

Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.

Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

Kids are a lesson every day, and being married is a lesson every day, but I think having a boutique and running it with my husband and having our careers and raising children was something that was really an eye-opener all the time.