Theo Paphitis Quotes

For entrepreneurs, ignorance is not bliss. It's fatal. It's costly. And it's for losers. You either get organized, or get crushed.

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

Risk-taking is my thing... I think of my company as my chip stack.

Basically if you study entrepreneurs, there is a misnomer: People think that entrepreneurs take risk, and they get rewarded because they take risk. In reality entrepreneurs do everything they can to minimize risk. They are not interested in taking risk. They want free lunches and they go after free lunches.

Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.

People must be realistic when evaluating their business.

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.

An entrepreneur must deal with more uncertainty than a professional with a well-defined role.

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

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

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

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

I believe in this industry as a business, and I want to continue to grow my own business.

When I looked into the mechanics of being a businessman, I found it wasn't rocket science.

If you can just learn to think about the market first, you will have a big leg up on most people starting startups.

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

I talk a lot about taking risks, and then I follow that up very quickly by saying, 'Take prudent risks.'

And people who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who don't.

Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.

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

Seeing the world around you clearly is a critical step in developing an idea for a business, carrying out that idea, and then thriving with an ongoing concern. Through choice, predilection, lack of education, impatience, or other causes, the entrepreneur lives, in a way, outside the mainstream.

You can learn everything that there is to know about the industry or the player from the company that is performing better or worse.

Once you're involved in a business, it's part of what you do. It's the way you are.

Entrepreneurs must be practical experts. They needn't set out to be subject matter experts in what they do; they must set out to solve a problem or pursue some cause or purpose greater than themselves.

We recognize the need to adapt to a changing competitive environment.