Ronnie Screwvala Quotes

Founders go wrong when they start to believe their business plan will materialize as written. I advise entrepreneurs to burn their business plan - it's simply too dangerous to the health of your business.

Seeing the world around you clearly is a critical step in developing an idea for a business, carrying out that idea, and then thriving with an ongoing concern. Through choice, predilection, lack of education, impatience, or other causes, the entrepreneur lives, in a way, outside the mainstream.

You can never be satisfied as an entrepreneur, and the basis of any successful, growing business is new clients.

I enjoy business, being an entrepreneur on every level. I really enjoy it.

The thing that really sticks - and when you talk to entrepreneurs, they say the same - is just thinking about the next day, the next week.

I want entrepreneurs to be engineers and scientists and designers; they don't necessarily have to be Internet entrepreneurs or retail entrepreneurs.

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 always knew I wanted to start my own line. Nights and weekends, I would work on my business plan.

For me, the winning strategy in any start-up business is, 'Think big but start small.'

You know, being an entrepreneur is super hard work, and if you're not passionate about what you're doing, you're probably not going to succeed.

People must be realistic when evaluating their business.

Producing suits me because I have a business mind and a business sensibility.

There's one thing I've learned about entrepreneurs' business plans. Every one is wrong.

From a relatively early age I got interested in business.

My business acumen is definitely growing.

I think we have to notice that the business processes we use right now for thinking and planning and budgeting and strategy are all delivered on very tight agendas.

For over forty years, I've been one of the most passionate believers in entrepreneurs. From day one, I've learned that too many small businesses are predicated on business models that the owner barely understands, and then, those same men and women are baffled when their business dreams are overwhelmed with struggles they never foresaw.

I've given a lot of talks over the years on the subject of entrepreneurship. The first thing I find I have to do is to dispel the persistent myth that entrepreneurial success is all about innovative thinking and breakthrough ideas.

Anytime is a good time to start a company.

The most incredible businesses are started by entrepreneurs who relentlessly pursue their passion, but passion works best with a thoughtful, ambitious-yet-grounded business plan.

All good entrepreneurs have to start somewhere with a dedicated plan to finish in a great place.

Plenty of entrepreneurs can start a company. What is more rare is to evolve it and to scale with it over time.

Business is more exciting than any game.

Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.