Mike McCurry Quotes

You can work hard and be smart, but you need to think about when you're going to be part of a startup and build it. You only have so much energy, whether you want to admit it or not.

I have a great team who has helped me build Biocon, I was very fortunate to be able to share my vision with a group of people who really were as excited about challenges as I was.

You're not going to become a great manager overnight. You're not going to become a great public speaker or figure out how to raise money. These are the things you want to start the clock on as early as possible.

As all entrepreneurs know, you live and die by your ability to prioritize. You must focus on the most important, mission-critical tasks each day and night, and then share, delegate, delay or skip the rest.

A wartime C.E.O. may not delegate. They make every decision based on the next product release. They may use a lot of profanity.

When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun.

Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

My greatest love in life is to develop projects. I just get a huge kick out of that. I've been doing it since ever I could.

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing.

Mobilize people and resources to get results, Not small results but big results. Spend 80% of your time doing development work. Only 20% your time doing administrative work. Never be bureaucrats. Always be leaders.

Like most entrepreneurs, getting motivated to work has never been a problem for me; focus comes through delegating tasks to the best people you can find.

Fundraising is a long and distracting process, and by the end of it, all you want to do is go back to building the product that you're working on.

As an entrepreneur and investor, I prioritize construction and collaboration. Whether it's a five-person start-up or a global giant, the companies that are most productive are the ones whose employees operate with a shared sense of purpose and a clear set of policies for responding to changing conditions and new opportunities.

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

Nurturing a project from the ground floor is something I've been wanting to do.

I know firsthand the complexities of leading an enterprise through business and technology transformation. It takes intense focus, a strong drive, and a clearly communicated vision to inspire and take an organization from where they are, to where they need to be - or where they want to go.

I think my gift lies in being a startup entrepreneur and creating environments and experiences.

The thing that helped me most when I started my own business was my experience as the president and PR director of student associations in college. Because of that I knew how to create and run an organization and how to really make things - even hard things - happen.

I used to spend my time more on process than strategy. Now, I prioritize my time around strategy, people, and process.

Meetings should be like salt - a spice sprinkled carefully to enhance a dish, not poured recklessly over every forkful. Too much salt destroys a dish. Too many meetings destroy morale and motivation.

Don't run for mayor if you don't want to basically be working all the time.

I became an entrepreneur as a child. I liked the art of the deal whether I was mowing lawns or selling candy or promoting clubs at the age of 16. I understood early on the importance of knowing my numbers and surrounding myself with the best people.

My main interest is in cultivating my company.

I'm always investing and building things at the same time.

Decision making is always top of the tree when it comes to the big football clubs and where it takes you.