Parker Conrad Quotes

I am not a retailer - I have never run a store; I have never understood the full details of how you can make a consumer satisfied. To build a company, to do deals, to motivate people: this is what I am able to do.

I spent the bulk of my career on building my company, and Morningstar is where the passion is.

Sometimes, when you're building a company, out of necessity there's just a gazillion things you have to learn and figure out.

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.

Entrepreneurship is not really building a product, it's not having an idea, it's not being in the right place at the right time. It's fundamentally company building.

My job involves a lot of different skills now - I'm as much entrepreneur and management consultant as anything else these days - but IA is still my favorite part of the work I do.

I already have a production company called J Squared and we're working on two projects.

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

As one grows their company and brand, you have to learn to be a leader, and there's no formula.

Every phase of building a company is really hard.

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

There is a common and persistent belief out there that entrepreneurship is about creativity - that it's about having a great idea. But it's not, really. Entrepreneurship isn't about creativity. It's about organization-building - which, in turn, is about people.

I developed an interesting skill set in that I was able to create a network and create experiences and environment - I built this decadent playground for men. It might have been successful, but it wasn't important. It didn't have any true meaning.

I've found that entrepreneurship only gets harder every year, and as your team gets bigger, the stakes get higher.

I know first-hand how hard it is to start a business. Those first few years are rough.

I can help someone grow their business 130% in 12 to 18 months only because I've done that with so many of my own and have faced so many challenges.

Great companies are built in the office, with hard work put in by a team.

After serving as a U.S. Navy SEAL, I started a business. In four years, it failed incredibly, but I learned a lot about business, raising equity, and choosing partners.

I'm working with a lot of entrepreneurs and people launching new businesses. It's fun. It's what I've always liked to do and loved doing it in my years at NASCAR when we were growing NASCAR, building different lines of business and intellectual properties.

To be the best CEO you can be, you have to be passionate about the business you're running. And I have true passion for the financial markets and the financial industry.

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

Inexperienced entrepreneurs often want to keep their plans secret, but this is never how I've seen any of the great companies get built.

We know how to build cross-disciplinary teams that are needed to take good ideas and make them great businesses. We're good at nurturing that kind of environment. And I do think that's something that's increasingly recognized in a lot of sectors in the economy.

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.