Jonathan Scott Quotes

During dark times, real entrepreneurs come out. They are not competing with 10 look-alike companies for engineering talent, so it's a great time to invest and help build companies.

Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That's the classic great entrepreneur.

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.

There are immense numbers of potential entrepreneurs who can start their own businesses among the people who are working in large organisations.

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

The tools used by economists to analyze business firms are too abstract and speculative to offer any guidance to entrepreneurs and managers in their constant struggle to bring novel products to consumers at low cost.

I know plenty of entrepreneurs who are numbers first. They tend to be highly analytical people, and before they pull the trigger, all the numbers have to line up just right.

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

I never studied business. It's either in your DNA, or it isn't.

My passion is creating lucrative opportunities around the world and online.

Very few entrepreneurs start their business on the back of market research. Instead, they have tremendous zeitgeist, honed by paying attention to where they are.

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.

Entrepreneurship is not really building a product, it's not having an idea, it's not being in the right place at the right time. It's fundamentally company building.

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

The general message would be to say to all these young people: If you have entrepreneurial aspirations, there is money, there are consumers, there is a huge market. The only thing you need to do is to go there and start doing things.

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

I never took classic business classes in college, so I don't have the background that any of the people running large companies have.

As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some sort.

People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards.

My business is the analytical framework.

In school I studied international business and marketing, so I've always been attracted to business.

I'm going to start a lot of companies. These are not sham companies. These are great businesses.

Some people are serial entrepreneurs and want to just move on to the next thing. They just want to clean the slate and start from scratch. I feel that sometimes, too, and the way that we do that here is we build things inside Shutterstock: we launch new products all the time.

I wanted to build businesses from the time I was little.

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing.