Urmila Matondkar Quotes

I look at being a capitalist businessperson like riding a bike - if I go too slowly, I'll fall over. Or it's kind of like a shark: if I stop swimming, I'll just die.

I think that sometimes people are frightened to take the risk of entrepreneurship.

We sunk everything into it. It came close to going under several times.

When I started Go Daddy, I tried many things - like building networks and selling education - and none of it panned out. I lost millions of dollars the first couple of years. I made a lot of wrong turns, but that's the process of being successful in business.

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

Being an entrepreneur is all about risk. Being an entrepreneur is like going to Vegas every day and shoving all of your chips into the middle of the table every single day.

In a company like Gucci, you can lose millions and millions in a second.

I once invested in a risky business. Quite a few people warned me not to do so, but I still went ahead and invested the money.

Entrepreneurs love to view risk as binary. The more you put on the line, the greater the potential for reward.

If you want your company to succeed, you have to have the confidence in your business to take a bet on its future - to risk destroying a mediocre business model for the chance to have a strong one.

People thought we were crazy for starting a record company. They really thought I was shooting myself in the foot.

Every business makes big mistakes along the way.

Provocations are like a Molotov cocktail. They only work one time out of ten, but when it works, it can also be dangerous for the arm that is throwing it. It's the price that has to be paid.

Most gamblers do it for ego. It's not about winning or losing, it's about challenging your ego and showing your mates you're fearless and will bet on anything.

Being an entrepreneur is not for the faint of heart. It is a high-risk, high-reward proposition.

The toughest decision is always whether to open a restaurant. Two or three bad months, and you could be out of business.

Starting a business is similar to an athletic endeavor, like serving a tennis ball. Telling you how to do it is useless. You actually get better through a combination of practice, coaching, and repetitions with money on the line.

You can't push the envelope at 10,000 RPM and expect to come out smelling like a rose and feeling like a million bucks on the other side.

Any dispassionate observer would recognize that on Day One, a start-up has no customers, and unless the founder is a true domain expert, he or she can only guess about the customer, problem, and business model.

Progress comes at a price. You have to be willing to make tough calls and take the hits.

Anytime you're pushing the envelope as hard as you can to be successful at anything at life it's easy to go from hero to zero in a second.

I've built 'The Conversation' from the ground up with no business training.

The price for winning is not the same for your life.

When I was 25, I had risked everything to launch Justin Bieber and was a couple months away from losing everything.

If I really treated business like a businessman, I wouldn't have done what I have done - opposing China. No businessman in their right mind would do this because you know that there will be repercussions.