Craig McCaw Quotes

A true business opportunity is the that an entrepreneur invents to grow him or herself. Not to work in, but to work on.

It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

Sometimes, we need an obstacle to challenge us and push us further than we would if things were always status quo. I'd say one example is the market crashing. It's like, just when we started to get into a rhythm, everything changed! But, it taught us a great deal about how we do business and how we can improve.

Every breakthrough business idea begins with solving a common problem. The bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity. I discovered a big one when I took apart an IBM PC. I made two interesting discoveries: The components were all manufactured by other companies, and the system that retailed for $3,000 cost about $600 in parts.

The lower the cost of the film, the more you can experiment.

In order to have the next generation of modems, you would need to pour in even more R&D spending. We came to the conclusion that we're going to have a tough time to really see that we are going to succeed in the modems business.

The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the digital-music business; Blockbuster refused to buy Netflix for a mere fifty million dollars; Excite turned down the chance to acquire Google for less than a million dollars.

You end up giving up half your salary every time you make a movie because you need the money to make the movie you have in your head.

AOL has a great collection of brands, and the question is, 'Can they innovate and scale their business?' And those are very challenging things to do. But I think they are well positioned to grow.

Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.

Thought, not money, is the real business capital.

We must get into the picture business. This is a new industry and a gold mine. it looks like another telephone industry.

To be in the right is often an expensive business.

People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.

It's much more difficult running a business than buying one.

If you are handed something, it's a blessing and a curse. Look at hip hop artists, they produced everything themselves. Even people like Robert De Niro are getting into production. Again, it's art vs. marketing. Not everyone can take the risk. You have to break a few eggs to make a good omelet.

Money would be no object when compared with the value of the acquisition.

Entrepreneurs bring to business... creativity.

We all get into business, and we take a risk in terms of putting capital.

Arcadia was a typical venture capital deal, but I'm the adventurer and the capitalist.

There are an enormous amount of techniques I wanted to beta test in television. You can't take those risks on a $100 million movie.

It's hard to make a movie that's very expensive and not be thinking of the results all the time.

Evolving our culture to operate and think differently is no small task. We are challenging our employees to be the best of both small and big companies - they should operate with the soul and spirit of a startup, while leveraging the scale, resources and capabilities of Campbell - with the goal of ultimately becoming the biggest small company.

When I came out of Stanford, I looked at my brilliant classmates, who were going into Wall Street high finance, Silicon Valley, advanced engineering, and I said to myself, 'Jeff, go into an industry where nobody can add.'

If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.