Henry Silverman Quotes

I spent most of my career operating businesses and fixing businesses, not staring at a Bloomberg screen.

We always look at opportunities. We are not aggressively looking to buy something.

I've said it for four decades - work 'on' your business, not just 'in' your business!

I propose that matchmaking should be approached like a corporate business venture. It can be risky, but I have discovered that the potential profits from acquisitions and mergers cannot be underestimated.

I don't want a trillion-dollar empire to run.

I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

Just like a script, you need to keep a business plan to yourself.

It's not wise to limit firms' expansion projects. Let us only be limited by the market.

I love doing deals and operating companies.

I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.

Once you have a product that you are happy with, you the need to centralize things to continue growth.

Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.

Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends.

Lot of companies are looking for advisory work on business strategy, restructuring work.

You're doing a major merger, you got to hope you didn't get it wrong. That's the view of any CEO.

Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time.

Many businesses fail because the owner wasn't willing to invest and wasn't educated on the difference between spending money frivolously and investing money into the business for growth, and the risks and rewards of that cash infusion.

The most important thing for us is investing and making companies great, and then they have all the options they want, whether that's to go public or stay private.

If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.

I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire.

Start small; get to know the landscape. We take risks but not major risks. We always started with small capital - €4m in Holland, $10m in Russia - and as we get to know the landscape of a country, we think about other businesses.

At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining.

And I was asked if I would come and help with the recovery of this great British company, Cable and Wireless, and I'm delighted to become part of the new and very talented management that have been brought in to that company as well.

If I invest in a CEO, I need him or her to have experience in sales.

I'm not trying to change an image, I'm just trying to make sure that the facts match the image. The facts are basically that I'm a builder. I have not dissembled any company nor split up any companies, nor do I ever buy any companies with that intent.