John Delaney Quotes

I am not a retailer - I have never run a store; I have never understood the full details of how you can make a consumer satisfied. To build a company, to do deals, to motivate people: this is what I am able to do.

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

I always knew I wanted to run a business someday.

An entrepreneur, whether man or woman, has to be willing to take help, whether financial or technical, to grow his or her business.

I have always been a business person.

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.

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

From a relatively early age I got interested in business.

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

I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less.

I spend most of my career as a management consultant, a businessman working with family-owned small and medium-sized businesses. The businesses that make up the core of our economy.

I never aspired to be a public figure. I have always been interested primarily in real business and the development of business strategies.

A good business book teaches simple truths.

Every phase of building a company is really hard.

I'm working with a lot of entrepreneurs and people launching new businesses. It's fun. It's what I've always liked to do and loved doing it in my years at NASCAR when we were growing NASCAR, building different lines of business and intellectual properties.

To be the best CEO you can be, you have to be passionate about the business you're running. And I have true passion for the financial markets and the financial industry.

I enjoy business, being an entrepreneur on every level. I really enjoy it.

This industry is a business - I'm a business myself, and I want to be able to run my own business.

It's exciting to be able to be part of the block and tackle of building a company from a smaller base.

I think my gift lies in being a startup entrepreneur and creating environments and experiences.

There is a common and persistent belief out there that entrepreneurship is about creativity - that it's about having a great idea. But it's not, really. Entrepreneurship isn't about creativity. It's about organization-building - which, in turn, is about people.

I'm not a business person.

I'm a business person.

I didn't generate my success by being a prognosticator. I developed my reputation building our businesses by building great businesses and making them more efficient.

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.