Lynda Resnick Quotes

You can't run a €10 million business the way you run a €1 million business.

Plenty of entrepreneurs can start a company. What is more rare is to evolve it and to scale with it over time.

My parents grew that small business from one 18-year-old guarding a bingo to more than 125 employees in three states. And sure, there was help along the way. But my parents took the risk. They stood up. And you better believe they built it.

If you're successful and growing, you can manage any way you want to. Growth makes so many dimensions of management easier. It's when growth stops that things get tough.

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?

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.

I spend most of my career as a management consultant, a businessman working with family-owned small and medium-sized businesses. The businesses that make up the core of our economy.

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

Your own business growth and success depends on many things, and along that growing path, you are going to have to concede certain responsibilities and activities - whether for your accounting, your production, or day-to-day management.

I enjoy business, being an entrepreneur on every level. I really enjoy it.

It's exciting to be able to be part of the block and tackle of building a company from a smaller base.

I was honored to start a small business and to borrow an enormous amount of money and to build piece upon piece, place upon place, building upon building and product upon product, throughout the United States and eventually Europe and facilities around the world.

I had a very long and successful career as an entrepreneur, focused on the needs of small to midsize businesses.

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.

The period from 2002 to 2007 was probably our best period. We created a strategy to build global scale, footprints in each of the geographies and dramatically built our international business.

I'm not looking to... I'd like to build my company and make a bigger company always, but I think in the behind the scenes arena is where I'd prefer to spend my time.

Our business is all about helping someone - a founder, a CEO - building a great business. It's not about seeing our names in the press.

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

When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.

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.

That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.

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

I'm a businessman, and what I know is numbers and business.

For small businesses to thrive, they require an environment that is conducive for growth.