Stelios Haji-Ioannou Quotes

It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.

I think the biggest thing is that success is not measured by whether or not you're on 'CBS This Morning' or whether or not you make the local news station.

My father was a successful entrepreneur.

I want to be happy. I realized that being happy isn't necessarily about getting there, it's how you get there. It almost sounds like a cliche, but every entrepreneur I've talked to - every good entrepreneur - really enjoys the 'how you get here.'

The first time my friends saw me in a magazine I was so excited.

When people ask me, 'Are you happy?' I respond with, 'You've asked the wrong question.' There is a deep kind of satisfaction you get from building a company. This kind of satisfaction transcends happy, sad, hard, or easy. I seek satisfaction. I want to be positively disruptive.

As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

I hate the title of being called 'the richest woman in India,' but it's the recognition that this was the value that I had created as a woman entrepreneur, and that makes me very, very proud.

I've had a good run. I've built a lot of things that work and a lot of things that didn't work.

Police blog or entertainment news, it's just good to see your name in print.

I once stood in the middle of New York city watching my name go round the electronic zipper sign in Times Square and I felt pretty thrilled, but not quite as thrilled as I felt when I saw my name in the 'Examiner' for the first time.

If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.

It's the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there's nothing more powerful.

I think I've been a moderately good boss. I've made a lot of people extremely wealthy - I think we've created 30 millionaires.

I've been on the cover of 'Time' magazine three times, not for my beauty but because what I was doing was newsworthy around the world. I've worked with teams all my life, but I've been nice and I've been kind.

I hoped to win a medal and hoped it would be gold. I knew I was good but didn't know I would be the one to score something that had never been done before.

My brother told me he was very proud of me, of the business I have built, and that gives me joy.

Basically, right before college I got into the Guinness book for my feet and started to do local commercials and little radio spots, just little things and found I really liked it.

Any article's good. Long as it's publicity, I think that's all that matters. I think it's advancement for my career.

The cover of Mojo, that was good for us.

There's this old Frank Sinatra song: 'If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere'... that song was about New York, but it applies to America. People know that if you make it in America, you can make it anywhere, and that is both in terms of sophistication and customer satisfaction.

2013 was a year of great accomplishment for Duke: our first full year as a combined company.

From Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos to Google and Facebook, many of America's greatest entrepreneurs, musicians, movie directors and novelists are world beaters.

I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.