Ted Waitt Quotes

I've built my business around the No. 7.

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

If you have a great idea that can translate elsewhere, then that's where the scalability comes in - and that's where you can actually start to make real money.

If we're building high quality companies, if the customers like the products, if the technology innovation is real, then the substance is going to win out in the end.

America demands invention and innovation to succeed.

People follow proven formulas in any business.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

I think, as an entrepreneur, you have to see the unlimited amount of potential but concentrate on your day and just keep building.

A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.

Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.

Even when early innovations start to succeed, it is not uncommon to see growing businesses sabotaged for threatening the status quo.

Companies that get confused, that think their goal is revenue or stock price or something. You have to focus on the things that lead to those.

I've been good at product entrepreneuring.

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

AOL has a great collection of brands, and the question is, 'Can they innovate and scale their business?' And those are very challenging things to do. But I think they are well positioned to grow.

No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.

If you want to be promoted into the first league of carmakers, then you can't just follow suit.

Oh, if people only knew how this business has grown.

The purpose of a business is to create customers.

You have to have a business model you believe in and like.

In the bar and restaurant industry, you're always one idea away from your next quarter-million.

We are trying to build large, lasting businesses.

Business comes and goes and we make a strategic decision that could lead you to whole new place.

With a lot of young entrepreneurs, it always start rotten, but then something good happens - but do you keep it good?

It is easy to cross 100 Crores these days but it takes a lot of efforts to creep towards the next number that is 200.