Yuri Milner Quotes

I couldn't have predicted the business would be worth so much. I could see that we would have this sort of market share, but I didn't realise the numbers would be so large.

I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies.

Zuckerberg rejected $2 billion for Facebook and has successfully created a company worth nearly $200 billion.

Sometimes it takes longer to create value, but if the companies generate more earnings, the stocks will ultimately reflect that.

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If a business does well, the stock eventually follows.

I built a huge profitable business with no debt.

I have a hard time with businesses that don't make money at some point.

It's called show business for a reason. The theater owners want to make money, and understandably so.

In just a few years, I have turned my small company into a multi-million dollar makeup empire.

Venture-backed startups with billion dollar market caps are called 'unicorns' because they are supposed to be rare mythical creatures that few entrepreneurs will ever ride.

You're not changing the world at $500 million in revenue. You start making a true difference when you're doing billions in revenue.

The contrast between a figure such as Mark Zuckerberg, a billionaire before he was 30, and Alfred Krupp, who spent 60 years building one of the biggest manufacturing concerns in the world, is striking.

I believe companies like ours are going to be as large as media companies and social networking companies that are valued in the tens of billions of dollars.

I would never want to do a content-driven film with a box office life of Rs 20 crore.

I'd rather have a $10 million business making 15 per cent than a $100 million business making 5 per cent.

I built a massive company, a great company, some of the greatest assets anywhere in the world, worth many, many billions of dollars.

I started off in Brooklyn, New York, with a small loan and built a business that today is worth well over $10 billion.

Wesco had a market capitalization of $40 million when we bought it [in the early 1970s]. It's $2 billion now. It's been a long slog to a perfectly respectable outcome - not as good as Berkshire Hathaway or Microsoft, but there's always someone in life who's done better.

My father gave me a very small loan in 1975, and I built it into a company that's worth many, many billions of dollars, with some of the greatest assets in the world, and I say that only because that's the kind of thinking that America needs.

Box office success definitely matters. I will be lying if say it does not matter.

By strengthening the core of our business and leading in digital innovation, we will accelerate growth, enhance our margin, and deliver increased total shareholder returns.

Revenue cures everything in the business world.

You can be taking two steps forward as an actor, but if a movie doesn't make money, you might as well be taking two steps backwards. It's all about economics.

Our progress isn't just limited to the operation. Financially, we have been performing well. United's 2015 earnings were one of the best in the company's history, and we made significant progress shrinking the margin gap with our closest competitors, strengthening our balance sheet, and returning significant cash to shareholders.