Brad Feld Quotes

It is one thing to seek out new ways to grow your company and new potential streams of income from new services or products, but it is quite another to take on responsibilities that are far from your primary job as Entrepreneur.

I didn't generate my success by being a prognosticator. I developed my reputation building our businesses by building great businesses and making them more efficient.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

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.

An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.

Every leader needs to clearly explain the top three things the organization is working on. If you can't, then you're not leading well.

What I've learned in my career is that it takes the same amount of effort to build a $10bn company as it does a $1bn company; you as the entrepreneur are going to put your entire life, your entire effort into it.

There's something about me that wants to grow a big company. I don't deny that. I enjoy the game, and the only way to really enjoy it is to win. I like to win. It's more fun.

People must be realistic when evaluating their business.

Building a company isn't that different from climbing a big mountain. You need people helping you traverse treacherous paths and to lift you up when you fall.

At a relatively early age, I began to believe that building a business was perhaps the greatest opportunity for making an impact, because it's a tool for making a change in the world.

As an entrepreneur, you love your business like a child, and you're taught to be laser-focused on the business.

Successful companies obviously have people with ideas and energy.

Everybody starts with creating or acquiring certain property in order to create the material to work with. When we started our business, we thought first of all about development, how to grow, and we managed to do this, even with all the difficulties and all the difficult rules that were implemented in Russia at that time.

Entrepreneurs, guys that start businesses, grow with them. It's more painful than it would appear.

You must, as an entrepreneur - if that's your position - be doing things that really move the needle.

I mentor a lot of CEOs and entrepreneurs, and when I see that product is the number-one thing, the only thing that matters, that's a real red flag.

As an entrepreneur, one of my biggest struggles is that you have to focus, but you also have to expand.

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

No matter what, the entrepreneur must strive to be above average and, at the same time, understand what is driving those averages they are seeking to beat. Take the time to understand and test the metrics you are using, and then you can not only set the average, you can exceed it.

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

A good business book teaches simple truths.

Building a successful business requires a combination of human capital, financial resources, market opportunity, persistence, community support, and even luck.

I built my business, and WWE brought my business in. I want to be successful in my business and, in turn, make WWE successful.

You can't be successful in business without taking risks. It's really that simple.