Jose Andres Puerta Quotes

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

Growing is an important part of the business, but more important than that is to get better.

I know the great team at Sherpa Capital will continue to rise and scale new heights.

The period from 2002 to 2007 was probably our best period. We created a strategy to build global scale, footprints in each of the geographies and dramatically built our international business.

At first, Uniqlo was a casual chain on the back streets of Hiroshima. Then... we became a national brand in Japan. So, the next step is to become a global brand.

One of Aspen's primary strategic intents is to further globalize its business, increase its representation across a number of additional territories, and provide support to its growing global presence with a differentiated pipeline.

My parents grew that small business from one 18-year-old guarding a bingo to more than 125 employees in three states. And sure, there was help along the way. But my parents took the risk. They stood up. And you better believe they built it.

If Vancouver did not succeed as Starbucks from '87 on, our entire international business, which is now thousands of stores and a significant amount of growth and profit, may not have existed.

My business has doubled in ways I couldn't have imagined.

You know, we opened a record number of stores last year.

Without getting into specifics, I assure you we are looking at very substantial opportunities for Loon - Google-scale opportunities.

Any business either grows or dies. You've just got to keep growing.

We're certainly not in position to expand into the East. We've been very candid and up front that if, in fact, we go through an expansion process, the world will know about it.

We wanted to go much bigger than anybody else. That's why we've targeted so many countries.

We have substantially improved our position in Japan which now represents a major part of our business.

Everything is global now. It's not London, it's not Spain, it's not Italy - everything is everywhere. So you have to be everywhere, I guess.

Well, we are expanding in all of our segments of the market.

By the year 2020, we envision our group to be the largest hotel developer in the Philippines, with a total portfolio of around 12,000 hotel rooms.

As one of the first employees at a small cellular phone start-up called Nextel, I gained firsthand experience in how a business grows from an idea to a company that, at its peak, employed many thousands.

I never felt that although we were based in Germany, Puma was and should be considered as a German brand. So we restructured it in a way that positioned us as a global brand, with English being the corporate language, rather than us looking at it from a German perspective.

I'm very, very bullish about our prospects, and as I tell our board, as I tell our employees, this is the time to invest. There's so much opportunity. Let's just invest in that opportunity, and really get after it.

Because the stores worked, franchisees wanted to build more stores. If your model works, folks who are happy with it will buy out the ones who aren't happy.

I am very pleased to be back at Onex and am looking forward to helping build our business.

Oh, if people only knew how this business has grown.

I do want to grow our company, so the way I've been doing that is moving 'scary' to different things.