Dylan Smith Quotes

There's always something happening in the world that creates an opportunity to try to fix a business and build a business.

Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

I think people don't like when you're not confident about what you're pitching, and they don't want to invest in you or get behind you.

This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.

You can't get married to any one particular plan. That is the biggest lesson I learned at PayPal.

In this business, you never say no to anything.

Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.

It is human nature, especially as we get older, to look for stability in our lives. But if you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you have to fight against that somewhat, as starting a business requires movement. You cannot stay still.

The essence of good business is knowing when to step on a train and when to step off.

Nobody has a crystal ball, and part of evolving a business plan is to say, 'I might have said we're going left, but I see the opportunity and we're going right.'

And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

Markets change, tastes change, so the companies and the individuals who choose to compete in those markets must change.

Entrepreneurs have a great ability to create change, be flexible, build companies and cultivate the kind of work environment in which they want to work.

You have to be very fast-thinking, creative, and mobile. It is key to making a business move.

Don't get stuck on a business plan just because it was your business plan.

And I thought I'd always like some form of business, I didn't know what kind of business I'd go in.

When I was 13, I opened my own business called The Awesome Pretzel Company, and my dad helped me build a pretzel cart.

The whole idea behind virtual integration is that it lets you meet customers' needs faster and more efficiently than any other model. With vertical integration, you can be an efficient producer - as long as the world isn't changing very much.

You never know where your career will take you. A competitor in the market could suddenly become an unlikely partner. Be flexible, keep your slate clean, and stay open to unlikely collaborations.

Businessmen must move with the times...the correlation between knowledge and business as the key to success is closer than ever.

...." I was rather discouraged when I discovered that Paul and Hotch had no marketing survey, no business plan, no budget, no organized strategy for the introduction of the sauce. When asked about this lack of preparation, the haphazard nature of their business, Paul said, 'Me in this business is just part of life's great folly. Stay loose, men, keep 'em off balance.'"

Launching a business is kind of like a motorboat: You can go very quickly and turn fast.

The capacity to transform itself from the inside makes capitalism a somewhat peculiar beast - chameleon-like, it perpetually changes it colour; snake-like, it periodically sheds its skin.