Matt Mickiewicz Quotes

Because I didn't have much money, I bought a small shop that fit my budget. The previous six owners had closed their business in three years. The store had no people traffic and, because of that, I was able to focus on figuring out how to provide a better service to each and every one of the customers that did come through.

You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.

Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan.

Oh, I'm all about small business. I think what we've learned from big business and big Wall Street is that unchecked greed and the creation of false value gets us all in trouble. If we look at the American economy, who's really creating value? It's the small businesses.

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

As a former small business owner, I recognize both the important role small businesses play in our economy and the broad universe of challenges that small business owners face in trying to make ends meet.

For over forty years, I've been one of the most passionate believers in entrepreneurs. From day one, I've learned that too many small businesses are predicated on business models that the owner barely understands, and then, those same men and women are baffled when their business dreams are overwhelmed with struggles they never foresaw.

It's an error in judgment to bounce into starting a small business before you cash in on building a strong foundation.

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?

What Wall Street is, they're market makers. Wall Street's business model is making money on velocity of money. They're a click industry. That's what Wall Street is. They make a lot of money when there's a lot of turnover. And they make a lot of money when that velocity is fast.

Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.

Being a conglomerate, each of our businesses has a different challenge; business landscape is different for each business. It makes it challenging as well as exciting.

I think small business is struggling in New York City. It's a fantastic market, it's a very appealing market, there's lots of opportunity, at the same time it's a very difficult place to build a small business.

A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.

There are companies with management and companies with money. You can always find money. Management is the key to success in any business.

About 10 million people start a business each year, and about one out of two will make it. The average entrepreneur is often on his or her third startup.

If anyone can make anything, anywhere. It fundamentally changes the meaning of business.

It is my hope that by reducing the tax burden on small business owners that we can help them grow their businesses and, in doing so, create jobs.

Know the business, learn the business, own something.

We've had this program for a number of years now, called 10,000 Small Businesses, where Goldman Sachs has convened a group of partners to basically give business education to small business owners.

The most common way to grow a business is by overseeing each and every aspect of the company - the 'ground up' method.

When you look at this and where it's all going, the hardware business requires a lot of investment. It's very hard, it's very expensive, and ramping up hard on any given platform, whether it's a console or any kind of PC or mobile device, going into the hardware business requires a lot of investment.

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.