Jay Samit Quotes

At a relatively early age, I began to believe that building a business was perhaps the greatest opportunity for making an impact, because it's a tool for making a change in the world.

I didn't generate my success by being a prognosticator. I developed my reputation building our businesses by building great businesses and making them more efficient.

Our business is all about helping someone - a founder, a CEO - building a great business. It's not about seeing our names in the press.

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

I've helped some of my classmates on how to strategize to get to the next level of their businesses. And it's interesting, because here I am sitting there from the entertainment industry and the fashion industry, and I'm giving a billionaire that has a business that's been in his family for 300 years - I'm giving him advice about strategy!

I'm really inspired to build a billion-dollar company. The hardest part is building the vehicle to get you there.

For small businesses to thrive, they require an environment that is conducive for growth.

Often, entrepreneurs don't build a board until they are forced to by their VCs when they raise their first financing round. This is dumb, as you are missing the opportunity to add at least one person to the team who - as a board member - can help you navigate the early process of building your company and raising that first round.

The most important thing you can do when starting a business is surround yourself with smart people who know a lot more than you do in certain realms.

Learning is the essential unit of progress for startups.

As I've progressed in my career, I've come to appreciate - and really value - the other attributes that define a company's success beyond the P&L: great leadership, long-term financial strength, ethical business practices, evolving business strategies, sound governance, powerful brands, values-based decision-making.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

My father was a successful entrepreneur.

I grew up in a household that revered building businesses. It wasn't thinking about leadership; it was more about building something. To build something, you ultimately have to lead.

I have a good eye for great projects, talent, and entrepreneurs.

I'm building a large company.

It helps to have founded and run a company if you're going to help somebody run a company who is a founder.

Succeeding in business is not just about making money.

Sure, you're an intelligent and highly capable individual, and you are learning a lot on the fly as you build your company. But you also need to come to terms with the fact that there are things you have chosen not to be an expert in.

I spent the bulk of my career on building my company, and Morningstar is where the passion is.

I am a very hands-on person, and I like to be involved in driving my business.

I'm a businesswoman.

We worked personally with a lot of great VCs. They just work incredibly hard at supporting entrepreneurs and their companies.

Building a company isn't that different from climbing a big mountain. You need people helping you traverse treacherous paths and to lift you up when you fall.

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