Nathan Blecharczyk Quotes

It is one thing to seek out new ways to grow your company and new potential streams of income from new services or products, but it is quite another to take on responsibilities that are far from your primary job as Entrepreneur.

I always tried to move up the food chain. I started with cement and then moved into textiles and banking. When I was trading sugar, I added salt and flour so that then we could do pasta. And then I thought, why not make the bag for it, too? So, we started making packaging.

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

I think it's natural for any manager to want to grow his business. The question is at what rate, and in what direction, and in what format?

I've said it for four decades - work 'on' your business, not just 'in' your business!

Giving up your core business in search of a phantom audience is not wise.

We need to stop defining Boeing's future based on a single program or two programs, and we have been doing that with the fighter story. It doesn't mean it was wrong or right; I just don't think it represents the great diversity of the Boeing Defense portfolio.

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

Just like a script, you need to keep a business plan to yourself.

The main professional responsibility of a person in business is business.

It's not wise to limit firms' expansion projects. Let us only be limited by the market.

The business end of business has never interested me.

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

Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends.

Most businesses fail because they want the right things but measure the wrong things, and they get the wrong results.

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.

While it is often true that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, it seems like Yahoo's almost obsessive focus on Google is taking away from its other businesses.

By getting into distribution and production, I am actually widening my base.

The flakier your mission, the fiercer you have to be on the business side.

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.

Any dope with a checkbook can buy a company. It's what you do afterward that matters.

You have to make a decision whether it's a new product or you integrate it with an existing product. It takes time to work these things out.

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

You can't base an industry solely on one person. That's a very vulnerable business strategy.

Our ultimate goal is to stay in business. We are not here with a specific plan. That's kind of how our entire career has evolved. We will figure things out as we go along.