Amar Bose Quotes

We had this unbelievable faith that no business has done, quite frankly, and we tripped along the way doing it, but within two years, we were in 40-plus countries. So we ran at an amazing pace, and this is where venture capitalists play a role. Making Groupon into what it is today, we had no role in it; the entrepreneurs did it.

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.

I'm interested in giving business an opportunity by improving the tax environment to invest and grow with Pennsylvania, to expand and put more money in capital investment and creating jobs.

In fact, 80 percent of our domestic job growth comes from the small- and medium-sized business community.

The government's Small Business Administration reports that small businesses represent 99% of all employers in the U.S. and are responsible for generating well over half of new jobs created.

I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I'm almost embarrassed to recount them.

My mission is to grow business in Silicon Alley.

In 2003 Scotland had 36 new business registrations per 10,000 adults. It's still the same.

Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.

My pipe business I created from scratch; my media assets and bank I bought from the secondary market.

The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation.

I know one business, and that's how to make software.

When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!

I think the big thing is to talk about getting people working again and addressing the issues that are keeping small business from being able to grow.

My family was in two businesses - they were in the textile business, and they were in the candy business. The conversations around the dinner table were all about the factory floor and how many machines were running and what was happening in the business. I grew up very engaged in manufacturing and as part of a family business.

The Obama administration believes in experts and blue-ribbon panels. They believe in creating new agencies and boards. They believe in all that, but they just don't trust the entrepreneur's ability to grow her own business and to create jobs.

The lifeblood of job creation in America is small business, but they can't get access to credit.

I still believe that the mission of Business 2.0 is very strong, very fundamental, and we're really at the beginning of where they're going to take us.

Small business in America is booming. The job creator in America, small business, is absolutely moving ahead.

Not everyone is born to run a $4 billion company. There is no magic formula. I've learned, and I've grown by learning. That's why I've enjoyed being in business so much: It's stretched me.

My father was an entrepreneur - a sign maker, and he had about 20 employees - and often he'd take me to business meetings, and I would listen to him talk with his workers and customers. We would also talk a lot about business over dinner.

One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

I sensed my chance and embraced the telecom business. I started marketing telephones, answering/fax machines under the brand name Beetel, and the company picked up really fast.

I prospered very quickly. Very quickly, I became politically empowered. I was running my own business.

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