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.

I have seen many successful people fail after they start fearing they might lose what they have built.

Wealth, in terms of dollars and so forth, could be counted up, because dollars were finite. It doesn’t make any difference how many dollars you have-at a certain point you only have dollars. You start...

For God’s sake, if I learned anything during this damn trial it’s that the only way someone can leave you is if you let them. And I’m not doing that, Dee. It may look like...

When I started working in fashion, I didn’t have money to buy photographs, so I’d Xerox pictures from magazines and put them in notebooks. When I’d start a collection, I’d sit with my old notebooks...

The best and the worst thing about fashion is that anyone can do it. But because fashion can be the most unintellectual thing, you have to turn it into an intellectual exercise just for your...

In my life, I’ve never really listened to when people start forming opinions on how you should be doing things.

Sadly, retirement planning, in many circumstances, has become nothing more than planned procrastination.

There’s a lot of stuff you’ve gotta know about Auto-Tune before you can start using it, because it’s the hot thing to do.

I got a very late start at fatherhood. I’m a late bloomer in general. It took me seven years to get through four years of college. I was five years away from 40 before I...

I don’t consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it’s done, I sit back like everyone else and think about what it means.

I don’t want to know I’m getting older. Then I’ll start to think about getting checkups and insurance. I don’t want that.

The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place. Once you actually begin work on a valuable task, you seem to be naturally motivated to continue.

I honestly believe that you have to be able to play the guitar hard if you want to be able to get the whole spectrum of tones out of it. Since I normally play so...

I’m all in favor of banks that play their part in community endeavors, private individuals looking for loans, people who want to start up a little business, and that’s what banks are for.

I keep getting these people at my shows who only know me from television. I can always tell when they’re, like, emotionally flinching when I start doing my jokes.

You can dance in the storm. Don’t wait for the rain to be over before because it might take too long. You can can do it now. Wherever you are, right now, you can start,...

I’m a big fan of the Irish accent. After a couple of drinks, I start to get a bit of an Irish lilt, too.

But I do feel a little teeny right now that I’m just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived.

When a person in a Russian prison decides to start speaking, to start speaking the truth – they start to reject oppression.

I know the Bible pretty well. I’m not one of those guys who can immediately start quoting every book, but usually I know where to look to find certain themes.

I like roles of people who can overcome things because there’s strength in that and an arc – and roles where they start in one place, and toward the end of the script they end...

There is no cure for emphysema, but you can start treating it and have a better quality of life.

That difficult start drove me on to inspire children and let them know that it is never to late to repair a bad experience at school, and once you get your head down and start...

You have no idea what you get involved in when you start a role. You just hope that it’s going to be successful.

We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can’t pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources...

I love actors and I feel like, if you usually allow people some say, most people, if they start to feel comfortable, they’re going to have a voice. If they feel heard, then they will...

Many cults start off with high ideals that get corrupted by leaders or their board of advisors who become power-hungry and dominate and control members’ lives. No group with high ideals starts off as a...

When you’re 11 or 12 years old, you can get so swept up in a book that you start to believe that the fantasy is reality. I think when you have a giant crush when...

With celebrity being our new religion, it’s increasingly difficult to start up on your own. Talented young designers are more likely to either go and work for celebrity brands or huge fashion houses than ever...

I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I’ve written.

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

I always start peeing when I’m only halfway to the litter box. This eagerness to finish is what probably makes me such a great lover.

The less people that are on the stage, there’s more drama. You start living the music with each individual. When you see a band with ten people on stage, just a huge ensemble, you don’t...

I’ve also learned to no longer feel guilty if I’m invited out and don’t want to go. If I start to say to myself, ‘What’s wrong with you that you’re staying in five nights in...

No matter, how is the start of the day, but end should be always good in the end of the day.

If I start to become a star, I’ll lose contact with the normal guys I play best.

I usually start writing a novel that I then abandon. When I say abandon, I don’t think any writer ever abandons anything that they regard as even a half-good sentence. So you recycle. I mean,...

Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that’s when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.

I’m not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court.

I always think I know the way a novel will go. I write maps on oversized art pads like the kind I carried around in college when I was earnest about drawing. I need to...

I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer.

if you begin, you win.

Suppose it’s your last day on earth. Have you done what all you wanted to do, you always dreamt of? If answer is NO, your time starts now.

If you’re not connected emotionally to a story, then you’re dead. You’re really just opening the door for people to lose interest and their minds to wander, for them to start picking it apart.

My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then I sit down to write, and things change.

Staph lives on skin. That’s the reason why many infections start as a boil.

Doubts are like stains on a shirt. I like shirts with stains, because when I’m given a shirt that’s too clean, one that’s completely white, I immediately start having doubts.

I’m just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it’s very difficult to predict what the outcome is.

Part of becoming a little bit older and having the opportunities that I have, you want to start giving back to people who have been influential and helped you along the way.