Chris Blackwell Quotes

Our farmers feed the world. They are up before dawn and work till well after sunset. They face any number of challenges they can't control, from too much rain to not enough, from disease to insect infestations.

The duty of the individual farmer, at this time, is to increase his production, particularly of food crops.

Concentrate our strength in agriculture and increase our potential.

Most business problems, you will have an intuitive idea on what to do.

Entrepreneurs are natural problem-solvers, which means that we always have ideas for new businesses popping into our heads. Having a lot of options is great, but sometimes it can be hard to focus on one when you are keen to move onto the next.

I used to work a lot on ranches where I grew up, and I had to rise at 5:30 in the morning.

To tell you the truth, if you're looking at rising pretty high, then you need to find a way of taking care of these problems and not taking time off. At the end of the day, it is a very tough competition. And in a very tough competition, if you just take breaks, then it's going to become much, much more difficult.

From the time I was a student, I think I was very confident in my raw abilities. I would think that, given a problem, I was as likely to solve it as anybody. But that's not enough in science to succeed, really.

You need a different checklist and different mental models for different companies.

There is a time for weighing evidence and a time for acting. And if there's one thing I've learned throughout my work in finance, government, and conservation, it is to act before problems become too big to manage.

There are new challenges every day when starting a business and growing a brand, but I'm fortunate to have an amazing team that is always willing to work hard and navigate through whatever obstacle comes our way.

We are not frou-frou creative types. We have done both sides of the business and are constantly asking ourselves, 'How are we going to pay for this?' But the criteria is that it must fit with our world.

Autonomous tractors would enable a farmer to focus on the work that matters the most on a farm.

In management terms, directing opera certainly prepares you for a film set: the magnitude of it, the experts in other fields that you have to call on. Both are massive ensemble jobs in which there's incredible pressure to get things done on time and on budget - so much so that making the wrong decision may be better than making no decision at all.

Even when the business took a real nose-dive, you're thinking, 'OK, how are we gonna get out of this? What we gonna do? We can work harder.'

Sometimes, when you're building a company, out of necessity there's just a gazillion things you have to learn and figure out.

I've always maintained the basic business principles of keeping it simple, doing your homework, hard work, and common sense.

The rural nature of our district relies heavily on the profitability of our family farms.

You learn really quickly how not only to be an artist, but you also become all of a sudden the CEO and owners of a company that you have to make major decisions about that I don't think we were fully prepared for in the beginning.

I think if you have a big enough wallet you can solve anything but the key is to solve it with the least amount of expenditure.

In his new autobiography, 'Capital Gaines,' Chip talks about the farm work - and he says he does, in fact, do it himself.

I think about issues. I use my economic training to devise solutions.

We started Marley Coffee from a farm perspective, and ever since, we've been doing things in a sustainable way and organically.

To seek advice is easy, easy-approach job. To find the truth by yourself, that is a little difficult, and you have to work hard continuously, and you will find it.

As an entrepreneur, my problem was that I had too many ideas.