Fabrizio Moreira Quotes

I think there are too many start-ups and not enough real companies.

We are calling ourselves a startup nation, but the number of people who set out on their own is very low; even 10,000 a year would be low in a country like India. We can say we are a startup nation but the world won't say it.

I'm not looking to... I'd like to build my company and make a bigger company always, but I think in the behind the scenes arena is where I'd prefer to spend my time.

Relatively few people should start companies.

Most new jobs won't come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We've got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality.

As a company grows, its purpose grows with it. It has the potential to evolve your purpose.

There is no greater country on Earth for entrepreneurship than America. In every category, from the high-tech world of Silicon Valley, where I live, to University R&D labs, to countless Main Street small business owners, Americans are taking risks, embracing new ideas and - most importantly - creating jobs.

My mission is to grow business in Silicon Alley.

The American economy has been built and sustained by risk-taking entrepreneurs whose pioneering ideas and hard work gave birth to flourishing businesses.

From the start, ProFounder was created to make sure anyone could be empowered to pursue their dreams through entrepreneurship.

One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

I was lucky - I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents' garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

I suspect there's a lot of validity to the premise that big companies aren't going to attract entrepreneurial talent.

I called up a bunch of the CEOs of Silicon Valley companies and said, 'Hey, can I come and see you? And I'd like to learn about what you're doing.' And I don't know, most of them said yes.

I want to see Texas remain an entrepreneurial powerhouse in the United States.

McDonalds. Apple. Starbucks. They were all small businesses, owned by entrepreneurs and people with vision.

I am always interested in helping and growing new tech start-ups and ideas.

You've got to really enable the next generation of start-ups.

As a small-business man myself, I believe strongly that improving the health of small businesses is the key to improving the economy, growing the middle class, and creating innovative products and services.

I started to invest in very-early-stage companies where, even though I wasn't the founder, I could help shape the early strategy and culture.

It's exciting to be able to be part of the block and tackle of building a company from a smaller base.

I work with tiny companies, so I don't really live in unicorn world, to be honest.

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.

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

To stimulate the economy, we need to give entrepreneurs the means to create wealth.