Susan Wojcicki Quotes

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.

You can't run a €10 million business the way you run a €1 million business.

Plenty of entrepreneurs can start a company. What is more rare is to evolve it and to scale with it over time.

I just need to figure out how to grow without compromising.

Growth comes out of a healthy competitive atmosphere, not trying to choose a particular path forward.

For me, the winning strategy in any start-up business is, 'Think big but start small.'

As we continue to grow, the question is, how do you keep the company as innovative as it was 15 employees ago?

I know how to make stuff happen, how to create wealth, create jobs, create investment.

Instapaper is much bigger today than I could have predicted in 2008, and it has simply grown far beyond what one person can do. To really shine, it needs a full-time staff of at least a few people.

The most common way to grow a business is by overseeing each and every aspect of the company - the 'ground up' method.

One of my philosophies of building companies is the importance of velocity.

Your own business growth and success depends on many things, and along that growing path, you are going to have to concede certain responsibilities and activities - whether for your accounting, your production, or day-to-day management.

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

Healthy competition is very important in any industry. It keeps you on your toes and helps you grow.

Other than playing the game I love, my passion is investing in innovative companies and helping the entrepreneurs behind them succeed.

I was honored to start a small business and to borrow an enormous amount of money and to build piece upon piece, place upon place, building upon building and product upon product, throughout the United States and eventually Europe and facilities around the world.

As Looker got larger, the talented people we hired started to see things that we couldn't. And what had looked like a company the three of us could run out of our houses for a few hours a day became something bigger. Much bigger.

My entire business model is to go on offense.

Watching a company develop is like watching a puppy grow. When you can watch something grow that you created - it's really an amazing feeling.

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.

But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.

It's not wise to limit firms' expansion projects. Let us only be limited by the market.

A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it's harder to turn quickly.

It is clear as you look at the team why Data Point Capital has so quickly become one of the premier venture capital firms. I look forward to adding to the firm's very bright future.

In any business, you have to evolve.