Richard Rawlings Quotes

London, a city where creativity and innovation have always flourished, provides a significant home for Starbucks and a significant gateway into Europe.

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.

I am always looking for ways to expand my brand.

Entrepreneurs create value; I wanted to create ideas that became machines for making value.

My passion is creating and marketing. That's what I'm really, really good at, and that's what I find the most stimulating for my brain to work on, so that's what I really, really want to do as opposed to product creation.

As an entrepreneur, my problem was that I had too many ideas.

I'm a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!

Good ideas have no value because the world already has too many of them. The market rewards execution, not ideas.

Ideas are of themselves extraordinarily valuable, but an idea is just an idea. Almost anyone can think up an idea. The thing that counts is developing it into a practical product.

Where ideas are concerned, America can be counted on to do one of two things: Take a good idea and run it completely into the ground, or take a bad idea and run it completely into the ground.

I enjoy the creative side of the business side of being a restaurateur. That's my thing. The thing I'm constantly thinking about is, how do you create new, interesting situations that keep people coming back?

You have to be very brave and very entrepreneurial - you have to dare to create your own brand.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.

I love marketing a lot, and I'm very creative when it comes to developing ideas for shows or publicity campaigns.

How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea.

We're looking to have the ability to come in and be able to capitalize on the marketing in order to grow the top-line. We basically leverage what has worked with our other successful acquisitions - investment in marketing, retention and student services.

I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.

BuzzFeed started as a lab with a small team where we would play with ideas.

When I teach seminars, I tell people, 'Your stuff has to look like something that's out there, because otherwise nobody will take a chance on you.'

If anyone said to me 'invent a new monster so we can sell more toys', I'd kick them out of my office.

Ultimately, innovation depends on the people with advanced skills who have the ideas, and on the business risk-takers willing to back them.

Everyone does a style book, and I wanted to write a business book for people that didn't think they would like a business book.

I want to create an environment where I can create technology, get it into the hands of someone to market it, and move on to other technologies so I can keep innovating. I want to be a serial entrepreneur: Incubate an idea, get it to a good state, and make that an enabler to get to the next state. It's every researcher's fantasy.