Jacques Torres Quotes

My pipe business I created from scratch; my media assets and bank I bought from the secondary market.

The year 1983 was crazy. People wanted to sell not only their investments... but also their companies.

Once our construction business began to win more contracts, our business success allowed us to reap the benefits of all the risks we took to start our company and we were able to resolve and settle outstanding fees.

You must take risks, both with your own money or with borrowed money. Risk taking is essential to business growth.

The economic costs of starting your own business can be significant; in fact, most new startup companies fail because of undercapitalization.

In just a few years, I have turned my small company into a multi-million dollar makeup empire.

Economic recovery begins with our small businesses.

When all is said and done, you're either for investment and risk taking as a solution for what ails the economy, or you're against it. The real world offers no middle ground.

Supporting iconic, growth-oriented industries, combined with tax policies that encourage small business growth and investment, represents a potent combination and is the basis of our entire administration.

I started with shoes, and with hard work and discipline, the business prospered.

Future prosperity will be built on private sector growth.

I want to open a restaurant, and I want to start selling properties. I want to own some stock.

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.

A lot of people want to start a business, and they're like, 'I wanna start a business, give me some money to invest.' Where is your business plan? Are you investing money yourself into your own business? How is this going to work? People think that they can just come to you with an idea and have money.

Small businesses are a risky proposition, and most celebrities want a home run.

Before I was State Treasurer, my Rhode Island business helped create over 1,000 jobs, including here at Nabsys, a biomedical company. As governor, I'll use this as a model for how we create manufacturing jobs.

In an age of globalisation, investment and good jobs increasingly flow to cities and regions with distinctive strengths and specialisms. These cannot be built up from Whitehall. They require local expertise, knowledge and dedication.

Something like Pinterest would scare the hell out of me. With $5 billion valuation - regardless how sound those numbers are - wouldn't be one that I would start, given what I would consider the risk of failure.

I myself am also a small investor in Slack, and one can count four to five IM platforms that were launched by Skype alumni alone.

We must deregulate, we must provide an investment climate by giving incentives.

I was honored to start a small business and to borrow an enormous amount of money and to build piece upon piece, place upon place, building upon building and product upon product, throughout the United States and eventually Europe and facilities around the world.

Investment in businesses creates sustainable jobs.

I've repeated time and again that Arizona is open for business.

Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.

I didn't have that when I invented MyPillow. I didn't have a safety net.