business owners
also referred to as: business owner
12 statements across 8 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Sep 17, 2024 by Vanessa Van Edwards · across every show →
Everything said about business owners, oldest first
Sep 17, 2024 positive
Van Edwards: Leaders must pitch internal initiatives as painkillers, not vitamins
“You as a business owner can do vitamin things for your business. You can do things that are good for the business that have long term, short term pain, but long term game. Your team members aren't thinking that way. You're lucky if they're thinking six months …”
Sep 17, 2024 negative
Sep 17, 2024
Van Edwards: Business owners must eliminate any task or role not converting to revenue
“It's very important for a business owner to focus relentlessly on what is actually converting to your business. And I mean dollars, right? Like I have a tight team. Like we want to keep overhead as low as possible. Like if it is not converting, if a job role i…”
Dec 18, 2024 positive
Dial: Believing business success requires sacrificing family is a scarcity mindset
“The thing is, is like, I think that's an old paradigm of like, if I want to be successful, Then I, it, my relationship with my wife needs to, you know, hurt because of that. I don't get to see my children as much because of that. That is a, like, a scarcity mi…”
Dec 18, 2024
Dial: Business owners should intentionally feed their brains daily problems to solve
“If your brain is a problem solving tool, then my goal for myself and clients that I work with, especially business owners is bring problems to figure out every single day because your brain wants to do that thing. You know, it's like, that's what your brain is…”
Dec 27, 2024 neutral
Kennedy: Founder Ego Inevitably Obstructs Necessary Operational Delegation
“What, for that transition to happen is you're gonna have to be able to build, mentor, and then ultimately delegate responsibility and authority to the people that are gonna be running that, and that is a selfless act. That is you having faith And a little bit …”
Jun 23, 2025
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Feb 5, 2026 positive
Apr 6, 2026 negative
Sanchez: Most businesses fail because owners price based on personal budget
“Most owners have what we call poor owner mindset, which I don't love the words because it, it's kind of got a negative connotation, but they price things below what they would pay for them. They don't price them based on outcome. They price them based on walle…”
Aug 31, 2026
Sanchez: Most business owners fail from burnout, not lack of cash flow
“Because most owners don't have their business fail because of not enough cash flow or because they can't generate enough profit. It's because they give up. And this problem has nothing to do with talent. It's really that you're too tired to keep going this way…”