Tom Anderson Quotes

I think if you're an entrepreneur, you've got to dream big and then dream bigger.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

You can never be satisfied as an entrepreneur, and the basis of any successful, growing business is new clients.

As an entrepreneur and a small business owner, you are intimately familiar with goals. You've dreamed of the 'right' ones, you've projected 'real' ones for the banker and the investor, and, secretly, you've imagined how life can be if you can reach the ones you've set.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand.

Entrepreneurs are visionaries - they see things other people don't see.

I'm an entrepreneur. 'Ambitious' is my middle name.

I think Coran Capshaw is such a brilliant entrepreneur and he always thinks about new stuff; the biggest stuff you can imagine. I know he's working on a lot of things for me at the moment, and I think it will definitely help my career to go to the next level.

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

I want to own a team one day. You know, that's my next goal.

The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.

The whole concept behind 'Forty Chances' is really a mindset: If everybody thought they had to put themselves out of business in 40 years, you had 40 chances to succeed in what your primary goals are, you would probably be more urgent and you would be forced to change quicker.

Ya know, I always admired Ray Kroc, the man who invented McDonald's. Ray had a vision of the most commonplace thing - a hamburger and fries to go - but to him it was just the greatest thing ever, and he was going to make it the greatest thing ever for everybody else, and he did.

I always knew I wanted to run a business someday.

Once you meet an entrepreneur like Jack Ma, you just want to make sure you bet on him. It's not a hard decision.

Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer.

Who's more likely to succeed - someone with high skill and no ambition, or no skill and high ambition? If you're an entrepreneur, you can hire as many skilled people for your business as you want.

I've never really thought of myself as an entrepreneur. I think of an entrepreneur as someone who wants to make a lot of money. That has never been at the top of my list.

Results transform the world, and a great dream creates results. That's what this thing we call 'business' is really all about.

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

I want to have an empire. I want to make my own stuff.

Entrepreneurship is, in large part, about building something from nothing, which means creating a cause.

Plenty of entrepreneurs can start a company. What is more rare is to evolve it and to scale with it over time.

I don't usually paint a big picture on what I'll do in the future.

Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.