Gillian Tans Quotes

Conquer your neighbourhood, conquer your city, conquer your country, and then go after the rest of the world. That's my mantra.

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.

One day, we'll have 10, 20 or 50 Jaleos around America or around the world.

Get big or get out!

I have had a lot of success in England, but I want to have even more.

The period from 2002 to 2007 was probably our best period. We created a strategy to build global scale, footprints in each of the geographies and dramatically built our international business.

Every time I reach a new audience, that means I'm doing something right.

At first, Uniqlo was a casual chain on the back streets of Hiroshima. Then... we became a national brand in Japan. So, the next step is to become a global brand.

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

One of Aspen's primary strategic intents is to further globalize its business, increase its representation across a number of additional territories, and provide support to its growing global presence with a differentiated pipeline.

Growing is an important part of the business, but more important than that is to get better.

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.

When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.

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

You know, we opened a record number of stores last year.

Without getting into specifics, I assure you we are looking at very substantial opportunities for Loon - Google-scale opportunities.

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

Growth is a result. It is not a policy.

We're certainly not in position to expand into the East. We've been very candid and up front that if, in fact, we go through an expansion process, the world will know about it.

We like to be apart of something that's about to grow into something huge.

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

When we opened our office in Santa Ana, California, in 2016, I could not have envisioned this level of growth, although I always knew our products would be well received by customers in North America.

I want to be part of a club that is aiming to be one of the biggest in the world.

We don't want to be as big as Oasis!

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