Wilbur Ross Quotes

Set your business plan to win; raise the bar or you're not going to be prepared. You need to think that what you're doing will make you $100 million.

Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.

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.

Business comes and goes and we make a strategic decision that could lead you to whole new place.

Leaders of companies of any size, at any stage of development spend a lot of time focused on growing the business. We develop our game plan and ensure that we are optimally executing on our objectives. We concentrate on looking forward.

Just like a script, you need to keep a business plan to yourself.

I've always had an interest in business, and my interest in business has really expanded over the years.

There's always something happening in the world that creates an opportunity to try to fix a business and build a business.

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

Prove to yourself that your business, in micro-scale at least, creates value. If you believe it, you'll find it that much easier to convince potential investors, partners and employees, too.

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

People must be realistic when evaluating their business.

You cannot get into business for the fashion of it.

It's important to have a really clear strategy so when you are in business, you only have to make micro-strategy changes.

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

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

You can't run a €10 million business the way you run a €1 million business.

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.

You have venture capitalists. We view them as experts who also help finance your company and give directions and also some pretty candid discussions about what you have to do better.

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

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 important for founders to think about how they would build their company from scratch - again.