Tory Burch Quotes

Great businessmen are creators.

What an entrepreneur does is to build for the long run. If the market is great, you get all of the resources you can. You build to it. But a good entrepreneur is always prepared to throttle back, put on the brakes, and if the world changes, adapt to the world.

Working on a startup is a balancing act: being crazy enough to believe your idea can take off but not crazy enough to miss the signs when it's clearly not going to.

This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.

I think a good entrepreneur has a very clear grasp of what the goal is, an unwavering sense of the goal, an utterly agile approach of getting there.

In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.

There's always something happening in the world that creates an opportunity to try to fix a business and build a business.

I look at building business as a creative process that I enjoy.

The Entrepreneurial Perspective is absolutely necessary for the creation of a great, growing business.

Dealing with business and trying to create never mixes for me.

I think of entrepreneurship as a way of creating value.

I love to think about business. It's what makes me happy.

I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.

The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you've got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Also, if you don't give up, you still have a chance. And, when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.

Life is like the monkey bars: you have to let go to move forward. Once you make the decision to leap into entrepreneurship, be sure to loosen your grasp on old concepts so you can swing your way to new ones.

When you found a company, you have the original vision, you make all the original decisions, you know every employee, you kind of know every aspect of the product architecture and its limitations.

Entrepreneurs have the flexibility and the ability to do things that large companies simply cannot. Could a large company pull off a trick like Amyris, going from anti-malaria medicine to next-generation fuel?

I have a great team who has helped me build Biocon, I was very fortunate to be able to share my vision with a group of people who really were as excited about challenges as I was.

In the movies, you want a good story and characters that are honest, but you are also looking for a good director who can lead the ship. That's how we look at business. Everybody has a great idea for a start-up, and so do their relatives, and they tell me, 'You gotta build it.' I say, 'I have to believe in it.'

You can't get married to any one particular plan. That is the biggest lesson I learned at PayPal.

Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.

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

It is human nature, especially as we get older, to look for stability in our lives. But if you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you have to fight against that somewhat, as starting a business requires movement. You cannot stay still.

I can't understand the conditions of a corporate product being designed and getting millions. I admire it, it's great, but I don't know how to do that. I have to have the wheel.

You need to be honest and always see new opportunities coming. So I call it intuition, innovation, execution - these are my working principles.