Tobias Lutke Quotes

The biggest challenge is to build the team and start the company, while hiring people, raising money, building a brand which has no history, all at the same time. You're doing a lot of things that in an established company are already done.

Nurturing a project from the ground floor is something I've been wanting to do.

Every phase of building a company is really hard.

It's important for founders to think about how they would build their company from scratch - again.

There is a common and persistent belief out there that entrepreneurship is about creativity - that it's about having a great idea. But it's not, really. Entrepreneurship isn't about creativity. It's about organization-building - which, in turn, is about people.

You learn every single day when you're running a company. You learn as you go.

It turns out that no undergrad class prepares you to start a startup - you learn most of it as you do it.

One of my philosophies of building companies is the importance of velocity.

Other than playing the game I love, my passion is investing in innovative companies and helping the entrepreneurs behind them succeed.

I'm working with a lot of entrepreneurs and people launching new businesses. It's fun. It's what I've always liked to do and loved doing it in my years at NASCAR when we were growing NASCAR, building different lines of business and intellectual properties.

I think my gift lies in being a startup entrepreneur and creating environments and experiences.

Start-up success is not a consequence of good genes or being in the right place at the right time. Success can be engineered by following the right process, which means it can be learned, which means it can be taught.

When you found a company, you have the original vision, you make all the original decisions, you know every employee, you kind of know every aspect of the product architecture and its limitations.

I am not a retailer - I have never run a store; I have never understood the full details of how you can make a consumer satisfied. To build a company, to do deals, to motivate people: this is what I am able to do.

The point of an accelerator is to teach you about companies and business, not about technology.

I love building companies; I love making products.

I'm an engineer turned entrepreneur who's passionate about connection.

Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

There's always something happening in the world that creates an opportunity to try to fix a business and build a business.

Entrepreneurship is not really building a product, it's not having an idea, it's not being in the right place at the right time. It's fundamentally company building.

For me, the winning strategy in any start-up business is, 'Think big but start small.'

I have a good eye for great projects, talent, and entrepreneurs.

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

It helps to have founded and run a company if you're going to help somebody run a company who is a founder.