Stuart Rose Quotes

Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time.

If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.

We really wake up every day trying to build businesses. That is the goal of private equity. It's a misnomer out there that private equity profits by shrinking companies. In fact, it's just the opposite. Private equity creates value by growing great companies.

I don’t think there’s any company that has reached $1 billion in revenue as fast as Xiaomi. In every conceivable benchmark, it’s almost unprecedented in terms of its speed of growth.

Once you have a product that you are happy with, you the need to centralize things to continue growth.

I myself am a builder and get totally excited about building Yahoo! as a brand and building it into a bigger and better company. That's what I intend to do.

Any business either grows or dies. You've just got to keep growing.

Some people make their choice on size. I happen to not be a believer in that. I've often said, especially in an industry that's clamoring for growth, if I wanted size, I wouldn't have divested $8 billion of businesses.

As long as our quality and company continue to get better, by nature, we will get bigger.

My work with Combate Americas, in particular, has been incredible because the company keeps growing at an incredible rate.

What we are doing is increasing our focus on cash flow, return on investment, and value creation.

We really must recover our financial performance and take Nintendo back into the position in the marketplace where it is well appreciated.

We continue to see acquisitions as an opportunity area for us. It's one of the tools that we use to grow.

Profitability is where growth takes place.

There's nothing wrong with a business that supports you and perhaps an extended family. But if you want to build a scalable startup, you need to be asking how you can you get enough customers/users/payers to build a business that can grow revenues past several $100M/year.

In the private sector, as the president of a small business, my focus has been on driving the growth of our business, not driving any partisan political agenda.

2012 was a good year for the Mahindra Group, as we moved ahead by venturing into new geographies and businesses.

Acquisitions have contributed only to 20% of MindTree's growth and 80% has come through the organic engine. Many large acquisition proposals have been turned down to ensure a proper balance was maintained.

In 1992, we did $1.1 billion in revenues. In the first nine months of 1993, we did just under $1.2 billion.

Once our construction business began to win more contracts, our business success allowed us to reap the benefits of all the risks we took to start our company and we were able to resolve and settle outstanding fees.

I've always understood that wherever I've gone, I've helped build and I've helped make those companies bigger and better. NXT is no different.

The number of people who have successfully scaled a company from dream to post-IPO success - you could list them on the fingers of two hands.

Revenue cures everything in the business world.

We've dreamed of growing our company into something like Richard Childress has. We're working really hard, and we're getting more competitive. Hopefully, that becomes a reality.

Growth and momentum are what a startup lives on and you always have to focus on maintaining these.