Rande Gerber Quotes

In just a few years, I have turned my small company into a multi-million dollar makeup empire.

I ended up buying a restaurant. Already we had invested in a gas station and a metal products plant.

My revenue was $4 million my first year in business, off of one $20 item.

Risk-taking is my thing... I think of my company as my chip stack.

I love big business!

If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.

I'm building a large company.

How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea.

You've got to know business before you go to show business.

I have a business background. I have always wanted to open my own business.

My pipe business I created from scratch; my media assets and bank I bought from the secondary market.

How can you franchise hospitality?

I had $20,000, and I started up JYSK.

Where I know I wanna go is being consistent on business, and that's just making another artist, my clothing line - capitalizing off the moment. I wanna be consistently doing that - capitalizing off every move I make.

At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining.

I'm not in business to make money.

I never dreamed I could build a $100 million company. I just happened to build a $1 million company that became a $5 million company, and so on.

I knew that if I concentrated on AdBrite, I could probably make a big company out of it.

Well, darling, you can have your tearoom now.

Investment is crucial. Because the truth is, you only get jobs and growth in the economy when people invest money, at their own risk, in setting up a business or expanding an existing business.

The year 1983 was crazy. People wanted to sell not only their investments... but also their companies.

You're either making money or you're not. If you're not making money get out of the business.

By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, we're going to measure the value of art by how many products we can sell.

I will never sell Flipkart.

Buying a company that is number one in its business is hard to do. When something is for sale, it's often not a leader.