Kevin Systrom Quotes

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term.

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

I think it's natural for any manager to want to grow his business. The question is at what rate, and in what direction, and in what format?

It's an error in judgment to bounce into starting a small business before you cash in on building a strong foundation.

I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

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

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

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

If opening your own business is the dream, then it must start with a Dream - not only to understand what it is that you want to do, but also, how you are going to build something better than the same chaotic environment you just left.

A lot of people want to start a business, and they're like, 'I wanna start a business, give me some money to invest.' Where is your business plan? Are you investing money yourself into your own business? How is this going to work? People think that they can just come to you with an idea and have money.

The most dangerous thing for an entrepreneur to do is to actually go into a business that he does not understand fully.

Before you start a business, careful planning is in order to obtain to where you ought to be. The biggest part is to ensure that, once you might have created your own plan, that you simply take motion. Without motion, you are unable to succeed.

The point of an accelerator is to teach you about companies and business, not about technology.

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.'

People follow proven formulas in any business.

After I met my partner, Mr. Protherow, we decided to start a banking project, and at the same time we started to think already about a business on a bigger scale. At the very beginning we thought more about gaining money, to have a normal life with our families, etc.

Many businesses fail because the owner wasn't willing to invest and wasn't educated on the difference between spending money frivolously and investing money into the business for growth, and the risks and rewards of that cash infusion.

How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea.

Running a business anywhere isn't easy.

You've got to know business before you go to show business.

As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some sort.

People must be realistic when evaluating their business.

I think running a business, doing what I've done for the last - since 1996, has taught me so many things because I started from just an idea and then had to figure out how to make it, market it, every single thing from soup to nuts on how to get a product done and out there.

People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards.