Nancy Lublin Quotes

It seems kind of silly, but it's really nice to chill in the kitchen with a friend and bake. It relaxes me, and mixing is probably my favorite part.

When I'm having a bad day, I pick up my guitar.

As a kid, I harbored this fantasy of starting a company. I looked at the entrepreneur column in Forbes. I looked at it every month and thought, 'I want to be that guy.'

When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.

Many people dream about being an entrepreneur, starting their own business, working for themselves, and living the good life. Very few, however, will actually take the plunge and put everything they've got into being their own boss.

Sometimes I get too wound up in my chemistry, but if you play chamber music, it's impossible to think about chemistry.

Bedroom Kandi is all about being your own boss, because it's a real partnership. Consultants start off making 40 percent of everything that they sell.

Sometimes you have a bad day, and you're like, 'I'm over this, and I just want to play tennis,' or do another sport that doesn't require any other variables, but then you have a good day, and it's like, it's amazing, and the success makes up for it.

My mother taught us all to bake. It literally calmed us down, and she was able to get rid of all her frustrations.

The matriarchs of my family loved to bake, and the apple didn't fall far from the tree. Baking became something I did every day; it became a time where my creative and nurturing side took stage.

I'm an entrepreneur. I'm a young mogul. I'm blessed.

Spending time with the horses was also a good place to escape to if you were having a bad day, so it was good from a mental point of view.

Music really helps - singing is huge because it releases all the endorphins and gives me a real thrill. But I still have bad days.

Having my own label has been nothing short of amazing!

Whenever I have a bad day, I tell everybody around me, 'Just so guys know I am having a bad day and I am nervous about these things,' and that makes all the difference.

People want to start their own business or become financially independent. But you don't end up a successful entrepreneur unless you find a way to love the risk, the uncertainty, the repeated failures, and working insane hours on something you have no idea whether will be successful or not.

Cooking is good therapy for me.

I kind of just got right into playing music because I could kind of stop thinking when I was concentrating on playing the guitar.

There's nothing better than being your own boss, especially after when you play soccer, you're just controlled by so many different forces. So owning your own company and being your own bosses, it's so liberating and freeing and you get to finally make decisions for yourself, which I think is really powerful.

I wanted to convey the message of how I do what I want and how I run my own business, and I'm a woman in charge. I want all of my fans to know that that's possible and feel empowered when they listen to my music.

For an entrepreneur with 'improbable' and 'impossible' dreams, the alleged stability that comes from getting 'a real job' is nothing but a sign of slavery.

Cooking is the best way to unwind at the end of a long writing day. There's something mindless and hands-on about cooking, which makes it feel like the very opposite of writing, which is heady but inactive.

Baking is therapy.

When I sold Weststar Holidays, the idea was to take stock and stop and then decide in life - we were going to travel around the world or whatever we were going to do. After about two weeks my husband said to me, 'Oh for goodness sake Deborah, get yourself a business because this is driving me bonkers.'

Building your own business is the best way to become rich. Then you can begin investing in other assets.