Seneca the Younger Quotes

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

An entrepreneur needs to know what they need, period. Then they need to find an investor who can build off whatever their weaknesses are - whether that's through money, strategic partnerships or knowledge.

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

I don't want to be a basketball player that's a businessman. I want to be a businessman that's a business.

I'm not a business person.

I'm not into business at all.

I'm not looking to... I'd like to build my company and make a bigger company always, but I think in the behind the scenes arena is where I'd prefer to spend my time.

When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover.

There are so many opportunities to make a bad decision in building a robot company on top of all the normal ways that entrepreneurs screw up that it is incredibly difficult to truly create value because it is so cost-sensitive.

I have always been a business person.

Risk-taking is my thing... I think of my company as my chip stack.

We see entrepreneurship and small businesses and supply chains as a critical part of the economic growth and competitiveness agenda.

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.

Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan.

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

Venture capitalists certainly create value for themselves, but they also singularly create value for the rest of the world.

A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.

I get a bit of a kick out of exporting private enterprise and incentives.

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.

We need banks and financiers and entrepreneurs to take risks because that's how economies grow over time.

I'm a businessman, and what I know is numbers and business.

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

I have invested in companies. I have worked in companies. We have built companies; we have created jobs.

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

Know the business, learn the business, own something.