Wayne Messam Quotes

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

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

It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.

I'm building a large company.

When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!

For small businesses trying to figure out how to get big, I would say you are going to have to take some risks. And I think that is what shuts off most people. They are not willing take the risk.

I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.

When I started Mediaite, I didn't expect it to become the business that it's become.

I was honored to start a small business and to borrow an enormous amount of money and to build piece upon piece, place upon place, building upon building and product upon product, throughout the United States and eventually Europe and facilities around the world.

The number of people who have successfully scaled a company from dream to post-IPO success - you could list them on the fingers of two hands.

Having a company that's successful is a wonderful platform to do new things. You don't have to raise money for it; you can take profits from the company and pump them into new business.

You must take risks, both with your own money or with borrowed money. Risk taking is essential to business growth.

If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.

Keep your shop, and your shop will keep you.

I already have enough apparel businesses that are either doing well or not really doing anything at all, and I'm looking to broaden my portfolio.

I think in certain areas the demand is greater than it has ever been, and my business is better than it's been in 30 years. The music business is so precarious, as you know-you've got to make it while you can make it, and that's exactly what we're doing.

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.

What do you want your business to do? Make money, of course. To pay for people and supplies, to be able to grow.

Other men have created FTSE 100 companies. But I believe no man has done this in his lifetime without acquisition or borrowing. My one regret is handing over the reigns.

Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.

My pipe business I created from scratch; my media assets and bank I bought from the secondary market.

For Gazprom, 2015 is turning out auspiciously. We already see the possibility for additional investments in our investment program.

As an entrepreneur, in many ways it's like looking into the crystal ball for what my company will hopefully go through as it starts to think about bigger challenges - scaling internationally, getting ready to go public, and all those different things.

Growing Ineos has been a lot of fun.

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.