Stan Lee Quotes

I am a very hands-on person, and I like to be involved in driving my business.

I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.

I like the challenge of growing small companies into big global companies.

It's much more difficult running a business than buying one.

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.

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.

A lot of people especially want to know about going into business. But it's a two-way conversation.

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.

Start step by step. I didn't start being a big company in the beginning. You go to the bank for loans when nobody knows about you.

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.

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

Small business is America's engine of job creation.

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.

I believe that every business and company takes two years to establish.

As an entrepreneur, it's easy to feel ownership over every aspect of your business because you're putting your reputation, your money, and other people's money on the line. Oh, and you're sleeping, breathing, and eating your passion project - that, too. But if you try to do it all yourself, you're almost certain to fail.

In terms of what I wanted to do before I got into politics, I was a businessman. I ran a company that makes and sells infrared night vision military technology and solar technology, so I wanted to grow that company and pursue groundbreaking technology in each of those areas.

Building a product is easy. But building the company that builds the product is hard.

As an entrepreneur at heart, I am excited to see so many new opportunities, and I am honoured to accept this opportunity to help shape the next stage of HTC's development.

I see myself as a classic middle market entrepreneur, and this is the role I fulfil.

I was never, ever interested in becoming a businessman or an entrepreneur. If I was a businessman, or saw myself as a businessman, I would have never gone into the airline business.

I built a massive company, a great company, some of the greatest assets anywhere in the world, worth many, many billions of dollars.

I love being a businessman much more than being a hacker.

Virgin could never have grown into the group of more than 200 companies it is now, were it not for a steady stream of intrapreneurs who looked for and developed opportunities, often leading efforts that went against the grain.

Before you invest in anything else, exhaust the possibilities of investing in your own business first.

I went to college on my way to be a lawyer. That's all I wanted to do was go back home and help my daddy. I thought we were poor because he was not a good businessman and I was going to become the lawyer who would take charge of the business.