Mark Pincus Quotes

Other than playing the game I love, my passion is investing in innovative companies and helping the entrepreneurs behind them succeed.

People follow proven formulas in any business.

I think running a business, doing what I've done for the last - since 1996, has taught me so many things because I started from just an idea and then had to figure out how to make it, market it, every single thing from soup to nuts on how to get a product done and out there.

You have to have a business model you believe in and like.

I enjoy business, being an entrepreneur on every level. I really enjoy it.

I think of entrepreneurship as a way of creating value.

Entrepreneurship is, in large part, about building something from nothing, which means creating a cause.

'Bazillion Dollar Club' follows six struggling startups trying to get their products together.

Business fascinates me. It's very creative.

Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.

I have a good eye for great projects, talent, and entrepreneurs.

I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of business classes. I was really fascinated by economics. You end up having to be a marketeer, finance maven and a little bit of a technologist in order to get a business going.

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

I'm a businessman, and what I know is numbers and business.

I look at building business as a creative process that I enjoy.

I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.

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

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.

The tools used by economists to analyze business firms are too abstract and speculative to offer any guidance to entrepreneurs and managers in their constant struggle to bring novel products to consumers at low cost.

I don't think it ever occurred to me that I wouldn't be an entrepreneur. My dad became a real estate developer, and that work is usually project-based. You attract investors for a project with a certain life cycle, and then you move on to the next thing. It's almost like being a serial entrepreneur, so I had that as an example.

Your own business growth and success depends on many things, and along that growing path, you are going to have to concede certain responsibilities and activities - whether for your accounting, your production, or day-to-day management.

It's important for founders to think about how they would build their company from scratch - again.

I understand the highs and lows of building a global business from the ground and taking that initial product idea all the way to the market.

I think my gift lies in being a startup entrepreneur and creating environments and experiences.

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