John Katzman Quotes

Every entrepreneur, whether man or woman, should start with a robust business structure.

Inexperienced entrepreneurs often want to keep their plans secret, but this is never how I've seen any of the great companies get built.

When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end.

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.

Business owners should think of designers as architects, not decorators.

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

Young entrepreneurs should spend an awful lot of time thinking about what they want to go into.

I'm always thinking about whatever game I'm working on. My brain works subconsciously on design pretty much every hour I'm awake.

I don't think you should ever start a business and move in a direction where you can't see it becoming a business.

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.

When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only the theoretical architect believes that you can make the concept and then sometime, somebody will come to build it.

The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.

If I weren't involved with food, I'd be working in architecture. Design is that critical to me.

This is a business that is much easier planned than executed.

I'm just interested in building a company that doesn't necessarily change lives but adapts people's behaviour.

Something like 'Abstract' can really give people access to the behind-the-scenes of how our physical surroundings take shape.

Often the most important moment in the design process is figuring out what the right question is.

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

I got an album concept called 'Exit Strategy,' that might be one of my last ones. It's a term they use in business when you build companies. You create an exit strategy as you make a company. You don't wait till you're five years in it; you create a exit strategy as you make the company.

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

The success stories in biotechnology are mainly due to the straightforward application of design thinking in both the business and science aspects of our lean startups.

Technical co-founders are great at envisioning where the company's going from a strategic standpoint. They have what I call the 'gut-feel' of building out their business.

The most important job of an entrepreneur is to design the business before there is a business.

Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization; as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect.