Scott Cook Quotes

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

I love Jay-Z, I love Kanye, and I praise the way he's been able to bring more business out of the jungle.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

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.

My parents started a business out of the living room of our home and, 30-plus years later, it was a multimillion dollar company. So, President Obama, with all due respect, don't tell me that my parents didn't build their business.

Seeing the world around you clearly is a critical step in developing an idea for a business, carrying out that idea, and then thriving with an ongoing concern. Through choice, predilection, lack of education, impatience, or other causes, the entrepreneur lives, in a way, outside the mainstream.

We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.

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!

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

I try getting in front of as many opportunities as possible, but in the late '90s, I had no idea that I'd end up being CFO of a technology company. I'd no idea what venture capital was.

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

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

Subsequent to the original Quicken, the whole idea that we, as a consumer products company, could actually make business products, that was a whole revolution in our thinking.

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

Nothing wrong with making money.

I think for any small business that's bootstrapped, the overwhelming challenge initially is getting to positive cash flow.

I have my aluminum siding business, and that's going like a house afire.

I look at building business as a creative process that I enjoy.

I did not want to write just another business book.

I wrote '#GIRLBOSS' while running a $100 million-plus revenue business.

Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas.

Not everyone is born to run a $4 billion company. There is no magic formula. I've learned, and I've grown by learning. That's why I've enjoyed being in business so much: It's stretched me.

The start-up life kept me busy and surfaced the problem of not being able to stay on top of my personal finances, which led me to invent Mint.com. I was working 80-hour weeks, and had done enough preliminary work and research to know I had a big idea: To make money management effortless and automated.

You need to put your hands around the throat of your business, and you need to run it. There's no other way.

You can never be satisfied as an entrepreneur, and the basis of any successful, growing business is new clients.