Jason Calacanis Quotes

In 1983, I set up Caxton Corp. It's been an interesting and happy ride since.

I built my business, and WWE brought my business in. I want to be successful in my business and, in turn, make WWE successful.

Starting a business from scratch and having little money in the bank focuses your mind in a way that running a multibillion-dollar business never does. It brings the key drivers of performance into sharp relief. I promise.

I have a great team who has helped me build Biocon, I was very fortunate to be able to share my vision with a group of people who really were as excited about challenges as I was.

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.

I'm proud we have built a billion-dollar business from scratch here in the US. It has been done very much in a slow, building way. It wasn't an instant type of thing. America is a huge market where persistence is very important, and I am a builder by nature.

Businesses must invest in products and people in order to create new wealth.

Everybody starts with creating or acquiring certain property in order to create the material to work with. When we started our business, we thought first of all about development, how to grow, and we managed to do this, even with all the difficulties and all the difficult rules that were implemented in Russia at that time.

You can't run a €10 million business the way you run a €1 million business.

That's the problem with so many organizations around entrepreneurship. They're driven by metrics that don't matter.

Building a successful business requires a combination of human capital, financial resources, market opportunity, persistence, community support, and even luck.

To scale your business, you need to delegate responsibilities to others and establish a strong company culture.

My main interest is in cultivating my company.

All good entrepreneurs have to start somewhere with a dedicated plan to finish in a great place.

I can help someone grow their business 130% in 12 to 18 months only because I've done that with so many of my own and have faced so many challenges.

I didn't generate my success by being a prognosticator. I developed my reputation building our businesses by building great businesses and making them more efficient.

Our business is all about helping someone - a founder, a CEO - building a great business. It's not about seeing our names in the press.

Being able to dedicate 100 per cent of my time to impacting more businesses without being operational, it just gives me a bigger platform.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

We've tapped into a huge demand, and it's up to us to fulfill that demand and to be creative doing it.

We didn't know how to run a business, but we had dreams and talent.

A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation of the finer things in life.

I've helped some of my classmates on how to strategize to get to the next level of their businesses. And it's interesting, because here I am sitting there from the entertainment industry and the fashion industry, and I'm giving a billionaire that has a business that's been in his family for 300 years - I'm giving him advice about strategy!

A philanthropic venture requires all the energy, knowledge and money from its founder that a company requires from the leadership team.