Ted Dwane Quotes

We're building a great company, and we're very excited about the future of the company.

My business has doubled in ways I couldn't have imagined.

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.

It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.

That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.

My parents grew that small business from one 18-year-old guarding a bingo to more than 125 employees in three states. And sure, there was help along the way. But my parents took the risk. They stood up. And you better believe they built it.

If Vancouver did not succeed as Starbucks from '87 on, our entire international business, which is now thousands of stores and a significant amount of growth and profit, may not have existed.

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

I know the great team at Sherpa Capital will continue to rise and scale new heights.

We got on his label, and the Bizarre organization is just going up and up. So we have faith.

If you're successful and growing, you can manage any way you want to. Growth makes so many dimensions of management easier. It's when growth stops that things get tough.

I think part of what happens is that small labels want to get bigger. And bigger is not better.

We've become so successful that it's become a machine: There's a lot of people relying on you. You've got 100 people out on the road and working for you. You want to stay at the top.

It is only when you become commercially viable that you actually get accepted by the industry.

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

We are trying to build large, lasting businesses.

When you have built a $3 billion company out of a broom closet, I think you are entitled to a nice house.

Our growth has been very fast but in every place we've gone, we've achieved great success.

I didn't expect all of this success to come so quickly.

We want to play a full year, July to July, because that will mean we've been successful.

I am very pleased to be back at Onex and am looking forward to helping build our business.

While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility.

Market expansion is not an opportunity. It is a necessity.

Get big or get out!

I want tension in my business. Tension creates change. Change is necessary to evolve and prosper. I am never satisfied.