Harold Simmons Quotes

When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.

The most important thing for us is investing and making companies great, and then they have all the options they want, whether that's to go public or stay private.

A savvy entrepreneur will not always look for investment money, first.

I come from the operations side of the business, and I buy companies to operate them, not to flip them.

I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?

I love doing deals and operating companies.

Mr. Morgan buys his partners; I grow my own.

I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.

Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer.

I already have enough apparel businesses that are either doing well or not really doing anything at all, and I'm looking to broaden my portfolio.

After I met my partner, Mr. Protherow, we decided to start a banking project, and at the same time we started to think already about a business on a bigger scale. At the very beginning we thought more about gaining money, to have a normal life with our families, etc.

Any dope with a checkbook can buy a company. It's what you do afterward that matters.

Many businesses fail because the owner wasn't willing to invest and wasn't educated on the difference between spending money frivolously and investing money into the business for growth, and the risks and rewards of that cash infusion.

Leave no stone unturned to help your clients realize maximum profits from their investment.

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.

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

Some people make their choice on size. I happen to not be a believer in that. I've often said, especially in an industry that's clamoring for growth, if I wanted size, I wouldn't have divested $8 billion of businesses.

I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don't believe in the whole thing of just using other people's money. I don't think that's right. I'm not going to ask other people to invest in something if I'm not prepared to do so myself.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

Quit being 'busy' and start actively owning and operating your company, and you'll be able to understand where the money is coming from and how to make more of it.

The ideal time period to get an investment is when you've already proved your concept and know what you're doing, and it's about adding water to the seeds.

I think a lot of entrepreneurs think they need money to build the business faster when they actually haven't figured out the business equation yet.

What we are doing is increasing our focus on cash flow, return on investment, and value creation.

We have a very competitive and profitable investment bank and strong asset management capabilities. We want to continue to build on all those businesses organically.