Robert Rinder Quotes

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.

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?

I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.

Dealing with business and trying to create never mixes for me.

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

If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.

Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer.

Any dope with a checkbook can buy a company. It's what you do afterward that matters.

I have almost no interest in quarterly reports. Running a business or investing in a business based on quarterly earnings doesn't make any sense at all to me.

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.

At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining.

I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.

And no again: My studio is not a first or any step toward becoming any type of businessman on my part.

I view investors as our partners and stakeholders in the company. They are trying to build financial models. What I try to focus on is helping them understand how we think.

Your first job, as an owner and an entrepreneur, has to be to understand how the business is going to actually work.

I've been kicking around this business for a long time.

I've said it for four decades - work 'on' your business, not just 'in' your business!

Businesses will ultimately go where the markets and opportunities are.

The life of a business is not like a football team! We are not taking part in an Italy-France game or against Germany.

Diversifying the business is definitely a good thing.

I've got $130 million in the bank and a whiteboard full of cool ideas for emerging markets and technologies where we're gonna test the waters and see what happens.

I don't know how this industry works. There is no formula.

I never studied business. It's either in your DNA, or it isn't.

We had a bunch of 'we's - a fitness concept, a restaurant concept. The first business plan we had included all of them.

I'm not into business at all.