Peter Levine Quotes

Every entrepreneur, whether man or woman, should start with a robust business structure.

I never studied business. It's either in your DNA, or it isn't.

Leaders of companies of any size, at any stage of development spend a lot of time focused on growing the business. We develop our game plan and ensure that we are optimally executing on our objectives. We concentrate on looking forward.

I've always had an interest in business, and my interest in business has really expanded over the years.

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

Start small; get to know the landscape. We take risks but not major risks. We always started with small capital - €4m in Holland, $10m in Russia - and as we get to know the landscape of a country, we think about other businesses.

People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards.

I never had a plan. I have to say, I'm very shocked when people start a company and say, 'In five years I want to launch a perfume, or in 10 years I want to have this.' How can you know?

I've been good at product entrepreneuring.

It's important to have a really clear strategy so when you are in business, you only have to make micro-strategy changes.

I think it's natural for any manager to want to grow his business. The question is at what rate, and in what direction, and in what format?

There's one thing I've learned about entrepreneurs' business plans. Every one is wrong.

My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did.

I never aspired to be a public figure. I have always been interested primarily in real business and the development of business strategies.

Your first job, as an owner and an entrepreneur, has to be to understand how the business is going to actually work.

I don't think it ever occurred to me that I wouldn't be an entrepreneur. My dad became a real estate developer, and that work is usually project-based. You attract investors for a project with a certain life cycle, and then you move on to the next thing. It's almost like being a serial entrepreneur, so I had that as an example.

I've said it for four decades - work 'on' your business, not just 'in' your business!

Business books are generally read and written by people who aren't good at business.

I got an album concept called 'Exit Strategy,' that might be one of my last ones. It's a term they use in business when you build companies. You create an exit strategy as you make a company. You don't wait till you're five years in it; you create a exit strategy as you make the company.

In the future, there are going to be various components of doing business that have to be looked at.

I've got no business acumen whatsoever.

I'm not into business at all.

The entrance strategy is actually more important than the exit strategy.

Niklas Zennstroem has a thorough background as a successful entrepreneur with extensive expertise in areas such as IT and online.

I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.