Mike Marsh Quotes

When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!

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

There is a reason companies raise money from investors, which is to invest in growth.

Prove to yourself that your business, in micro-scale at least, creates value. If you believe it, you'll find it that much easier to convince potential investors, partners and employees, too.

Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.

If a rich person invests in a business, either directly or through stock purchases, it means business can grow and hire more people.

Be it $15 million here and $11 million there, it takes hundreds of millions to be successful in this business.

If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.

After I met my partner, Mr. Protherow, we decided to start a banking project, and at the same time we started to think already about a business on a bigger scale. At the very beginning we thought more about gaining money, to have a normal life with our families, etc.

In any business opportunity, you'd be looking, probably, primarily at the risk and return. Some business can be very risky with a low return; what you want is the lowest risk with the biggest return.

Decreased business base increases overhead. So does increased business base.

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'm not saying M.B.A.s can't be great entrepreneurs. They can. But you don't need a degree to figure out it's costing you $5,000 per month to run your business, so you need $30,000 to keep it going for six more months.

I truly believe that the combination of a strong top line together with a strong bottom line is what makes for a sustainable business.

Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.

One reason why entrepreneurs are admired is that they often take on a degree of risk in launching a new business.

There simply isn't a way to do the show without investing in a bunch more companies.

I've been kicking around this business for a long time.

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.

You have venture capitalists. We view them as experts who also help finance your company and give directions and also some pretty candid discussions about what you have to do better.

When I was a teenager, the most valuable American companies were in finance and manufacturing.

If we want, we can be profitable, but we are focusing on growth. We don't comment on profitability, but we do look at it internally. And many of our Ola cities are profitable. But our focus across all cities is growth.

In all our businesses, we are out to build local capability in four basic aspects - product line, manufacturing and supply chain, the service team, and the financing and investment capability.

I've seen small businesses turn into terrible midsize or big ones because they let their desire to achieve some arbitrary metric get the best of them. Whatever is compromised as a result doesn't matter anymore, as long as the company is growing.

The failure rate for gym owners and personal trainers is very high because it is very difficult for them to work on their business when they are busy working in their business.