Chris Sacca Quotes

There are companies with management and companies with money. You can always find money. Management is the key to success in any business.

Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught.

I have seen entrepreneurs ask for hundreds of millions of dollars on a concept and try to sell because of 'their passion' for an idea. If the idea is that good, why wouldn't I cut you out and hire someone who is just as passionate for much, much less?

In the movies, you want a good story and characters that are honest, but you are also looking for a good director who can lead the ship. That's how we look at business. Everybody has a great idea for a start-up, and so do their relatives, and they tell me, 'You gotta build it.' I say, 'I have to believe in it.'

Capital isn't scarce; vision is.

Once you meet an entrepreneur like Jack Ma, you just want to make sure you bet on him. It's not a hard decision.

I think there's a number of pillars to success. One is you've got to have a great idea. The other is you've got to have a constituency, you've got to have finance, and you've got to be able to raise awareness.

There is a common and persistent belief out there that entrepreneurship is about creativity - that it's about having a great idea. But it's not, really. Entrepreneurship isn't about creativity. It's about organization-building - which, in turn, is about people.

Lots of people have plenty of ideas; lots of people have plenty of money, but in the end, if you want to turn that money into profit, you have to do it through others.

Your biggest challenge will be building a great team.

I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.

Business fascinates me. It's very creative.

Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.

Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

There's always something happening in the world that creates an opportunity to try to fix a business and build a business.

You find that you can have the best business in the most exciting industry, but if the execution, if the torch-holder, if the value-creator isn't there, then we don't make it happen.

Zefr has all the ingredients for success - dynamic, inspiring management, the ability to marry technology and content, and a business model that can scale. I'm thrilled to be part of the team.

A philanthropic venture requires all the energy, knowledge and money from its founder that a company requires from the leadership team.

If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.

I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.

Starting a company, your success is going to be very dependent on how you adapt. You're going to make decisions, you're going to make bets; most of them are going to turn out to be wrong.

There really is no shortcut just because you have a name, or you have some kind of access or some way you can solve all the problems. And I think one of the things I learned with FUBU, you have to understand that there's really only two ways of operating a business: more sales, or lower overhead.

Ideas are cheap. The difficult part is finding the team to execute them.