Ryan Holmes Quotes

A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.

U.S. companies are innovative and entrepreneurial.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing.

In a business, you've got to move on.

I consider myself an inventor first and an entrepreneur second. In real life, my hero is Thomas Edison. He was a great inventor, but also an outstanding entrepreneur who was able to sell his inventions to the masses. He didn't just develop the light bulb; he invented the entire electric grid and power distribution system.

In any business, you have to evolve.

We've tapped into a huge demand, and it's up to us to fulfill that demand and to be creative doing it.

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

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.

I take a lean-startup approach: creating agile, interdisciplinary teams that get the minimum viable product to market as soon as possible. It's my job to be entrepreneur-in-residence, an internal change agent.

The whole concept behind 'Forty Chances' is really a mindset: If everybody thought they had to put themselves out of business in 40 years, you had 40 chances to succeed in what your primary goals are, you would probably be more urgent and you would be forced to change quicker.

As an entrepreneur you keep trying things, and I try everything. I try business ideas, on our website we test everything, iterate, iterate, iterate.

I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?

I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of business classes. I was really fascinated by economics. You end up having to be a marketeer, finance maven and a little bit of a technologist in order to get a business going.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

Focusing on the long term and building a great product that is scalable ultimately leads to a great company.

Designing is so easy - it's the business that is hard. That's why you really have to respect Ralph Lauren - look at what he's done. Anybody who can sustain themselves should be applauded.

I never had a plan. I have to say, I'm very shocked when people start a company and say, 'In five years I want to launch a perfume, or in 10 years I want to have this.' How can you know?

I've been good at product entrepreneuring.

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

Once you understand business models you can then start prototyping business models just like you prototype products.

Business is one of the most powerful forces for change on the planet.

Your Dream, Vision, Purpose, and Mission all come together when you bring products to market - so make sure you're bringing your best.