Jay-Jay Okocha Quotes

Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan.

Every phase of building a company is really hard.

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.

When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover.

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

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.

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

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

I have no problem getting financing. I have a problem catching ideas that I fall in love with for the next feature.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

An entrepreneur needs to know what they need, period. Then they need to find an investor who can build off whatever their weaknesses are - whether that's through money, strategic partnerships or knowledge.

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

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don'ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

To foster entrepreneurship, expansion and job creation, more leaders at all levels of government have to demonstrate some understanding of what it takes to build and grow businesses in the private sector.

How could anyone ever build a company if they didn't have investments? It doesn't make any sense.

Once we started making investments, we realized the same service we provided to artists was applicable to entrepreneurs as well.

Investment in businesses creates sustainable jobs.

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.

Start step by step. I didn't start being a big company in the beginning. You go to the bank for loans when nobody knows about you.

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.

I graduated from Columbia University in 1996 and founded my investment company in 1997, thus starting my professional investment career.

I'll be a mentor to those who want to create a business, product or service and aren't exactly sure how to do that. To me, it's a true sign of success if I can help someone have a better time of it.

Floyd has done a lot for me financially and has taught me a lot about business. He did great in making money during his career and he tells me a lot of what he's working on.

As every entrepreneur and investor sifts through year-end data to predict the next trend or opportunity for financial success, there is a much easier way to accurately predict the future: hang out with those who are creating it.

For resourceful tech founders, finding capital is rarely a problem; making the best use of it is another story. A few years slinging pepperoni pies and chicken wings - on tiny margins and with minimal investment - might not be the worst fiscal training.