Toomas Hendrik Ilves Quotes

A lot of scaling up a company is not very sexy or strategic.

The period from 2002 to 2007 was probably our best period. We created a strategy to build global scale, footprints in each of the geographies and dramatically built our international business.

Growing is an important part of the business, but more important than that is to get better.

You know, we opened a record number of stores last year.

Any business either grows or dies. You've just got to keep growing.

Oh, if people only knew how this business has grown.

Every time I reach a new audience, that means I'm doing something right.

That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.

My parents grew that small business from one 18-year-old guarding a bingo to more than 125 employees in three states. And sure, there was help along the way. But my parents took the risk. They stood up. And you better believe they built it.

If Vancouver did not succeed as Starbucks from '87 on, our entire international business, which is now thousands of stores and a significant amount of growth and profit, may not have existed.

If you're successful and growing, you can manage any way you want to. Growth makes so many dimensions of management easier. It's when growth stops that things get tough.

My business has doubled in ways I couldn't have imagined.

The politics of growth trump the politics of compassion.

The War of 1812 has given new direction to wealth and industry in the United States, and manufacturers grew up as if by magic.

Prosperity comes slowly.

Every new mine, furnace, and factory is an extension of the productive capacity of the State more real and valuable than added territory.

Capitalism in one century of growth has enormously increased its power, not only through expansion over the entire earth, but also through development into new forms

Africa, Asia and the Middle East—the lands of the rising people.

Get big or get out!

We like to be apart of something that's about to grow into something huge.

I know the great team at Sherpa Capital will continue to rise and scale new heights.

We don't want to be as big as Oasis!

Our growth has been very fast but in every place we've gone, we've achieved great success.

If your strategy calls for you to be in America, then you will go into America. If your strategy calls for you to be in M&A, then you'll do an acquisition. You usually acquire a company to acquire technology, geographic advantage, etc. Similarly, geographic expansion is very much like M&A. It's done to advance a strategy.

Britain without us you can grow no stronger. We can grow tenfold without her.