Larry Brilliant Quotes

You learn every single day when you're running a company. You learn as you go.

I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics.

You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

I wrote '#GIRLBOSS' while running a $100 million-plus revenue business.

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

It wasn't purely Alex Ferguson's experience that made him a good manager, because he did it when he was inexperienced. But if you've got the qualities needed, and then you add experience to it, someone who's been through it, well, that has to be advantageous. There's no doubt about that.

What I've learned running Pixar applies to all businesses.

I can help someone grow their business 130% in 12 to 18 months only because I've done that with so many of my own and have faced so many challenges.

I have the experience we need to make the changes we want and I think that's a winning case.

Drive your business. Let not your business drive you.

It is within everyone's grasp to be a CEO.

The problem you ultimately want to have, as an entrepreneur, is deciding who to help, not deciding who can help you.

I think Donald Trump is gonna do great. Because I've worked with him and known him a long time. He's a guy who is not programmed to fail.

I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.

I'm very much a leader in a lot of the work that I do or that I've done in my career.

I'm a capitalist, I'm a CEO, I run a big business, I'm an employer.

Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.

Being a leader gives you charisma. If you look and study the leaders who have succeeded, that's where charisma comes from, from the leading.

I've stepped more into my business and really... taken control for how I want that to be.

In my own experience as a C.E.O., I would find myself laying awake at 3 A.M. asking questions about my business, and there weren't management books out there that could help me.

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

Nobody is actually a natural C.E.O.

Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie.

I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.

The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.