Naveen Jain Quotes

I'm in favour of entrepreneurial, risk-taking businesses that create great products and services.

I'm really inspired to build a billion-dollar company. The hardest part is building the vehicle to get you there.

I never dreamed I could build a $100 million company. I just happened to build a $1 million company that became a $5 million company, and so on.

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

Building a successful business requires a combination of human capital, financial resources, market opportunity, persistence, community support, and even luck.

Business is about more than just money. It's about being creative and innovative.

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

Properly defined, a startup is the largest group of people you can convince of a plan to build a different future.

I don't think you should ever start a business and move in a direction where you can't see it becoming a business.

There are companies with management and companies with money. You can always find money. Management is the key to success in any business.

You don't start a company because you want to be an entrepreneur or the fame and glory that comes along with it. You become an entrepreneur, and you create a company to solve a real problem. And by real problem, I mean a problem that is going to exist down the line.

I have started many companies now worth more than $100 million. So I know a little about business.

All the biggest companies are based on a founder who had a need, hacked it together, and said, 'Hey, other people might want this.'

Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.

When you start off with your first company, you are learning as part of the process and you make mistakes. The important thing is to recover quickly and learn from the experience.

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

In the bar and restaurant industry, you're always one idea away from your next quarter-million.

A lot of people have a great business idea; they just need a little push to make it a reality.

I'm working with a lot of entrepreneurs and people launching new businesses. It's fun. It's what I've always liked to do and loved doing it in my years at NASCAR when we were growing NASCAR, building different lines of business and intellectual properties.

You can't be successful in business without taking risks. It's really that simple.

One reason why entrepreneurs are admired is that they often take on a degree of risk in launching a new business.

I didn't wake up one day and want to become an entrepreneur. I had the idea for Rent the Runway and thought it would be fun to work on and also thought if it was successful, it would make women feel great about themselves.

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin'.

I told myself the next time I had a good idea, I would bring it to market.

Plenty of entrepreneurs can start a company. What is more rare is to evolve it and to scale with it over time.