Peter Drucker Quotes

Successful entrepreneurship is ultimately a matter of flair. But there is also a fund of practical knowledge to be acquired and, of course, the right legal and financial framework has to be provided for productive enterprise to develop.

I didn't generate my success by being a prognosticator. I developed my reputation building our businesses by building great businesses and making them more efficient.

Our business is all about helping someone - a founder, a CEO - building a great business. It's not about seeing our names in the press.

My role is to try to remove the impediments to entrepreneurs' chance to succeed. It's about improving the business climate to give people a better chance of succeeding.

I've helped some of my classmates on how to strategize to get to the next level of their businesses. And it's interesting, because here I am sitting there from the entertainment industry and the fashion industry, and I'm giving a billionaire that has a business that's been in his family for 300 years - I'm giving him advice about strategy!

I'm building a large company.

That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.

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

What I've learned in my career is that it takes the same amount of effort to build a $10bn company as it does a $1bn company; you as the entrepreneur are going to put your entire life, your entire effort into it.

For small businesses to thrive, they require an environment that is conducive for growth.

Thinking big is only one part of being a successful entrepreneur.

In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.

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

… good luck and good timing are huge components of outsized success in entrepreneurial endeavors. Lots of things have to go right, and the planets have to align; that certainly happened in Amazon’s case. Our timing turned out to be very good. And so you can’t sit down to write a business plan and say you’re going to build a multibillion-dollar corporation; that’s unrealistic.

The Entrepreneurial Perspective is absolutely necessary for the creation of a great, growing business.

After decades of studying the men and women that make the decision to open their own Great, Growing Company, I'd have to say it comes down to the Vision they have for that business - do they expect to build the company or just have some income for the short term?

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

Your success starts with how you are able to get clients in the door, get their business, and leave them satisfied. If you, personally, have to spend too much time doing that, you have simply bought yourself a job, not an enterprise. Take hints from success stories all around you!

An entrepreneur, whether man or woman, has to be willing to take help, whether financial or technical, to grow his or her business.

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

I believe in this industry as a business, and I want to continue to grow my own business.

Business can be hard. But we need more of it.

Growth and momentum are what a startup lives on and you always have to focus on maintaining these.

I can help someone grow their business 130% in 12 to 18 months only because I've done that with so many of my own and have faced so many challenges.

Momentum and growth are the lifeblood of startups. This is probably in the top three secrets of executing well.