Ronnie Screwvala Quotes

As an entrepreneur and a small business owner, you are intimately familiar with goals. You've dreamed of the 'right' ones, you've projected 'real' ones for the banker and the investor, and, secretly, you've imagined how life can be if you can reach the ones you've set.

It took about 10 years' time for Shopify to be an overnight success.

I think Coran Capshaw is such a brilliant entrepreneur and he always thinks about new stuff; the biggest stuff you can imagine. I know he's working on a lot of things for me at the moment, and I think it will definitely help my career to go to the next level.

Before me, there was no money, no business with yoga.

You will never build a company on the scale of a Facebook or a Google if you sell it along the way.

I built a great company, one of the - some of the most iconic assets in the world, $10 billion of net worth, more than $10 billion of net worth, and frankly, I had a great time doing it.

Every entrepreneur, whether man or woman, should start with a robust business structure.

I'm the classic old-school entrepreneur that says let's build companies of lasting value.

Technical co-founders are great at envisioning where the company's going from a strategic standpoint. They have what I call the 'gut-feel' of building out their business.

The only real way to success over time is a diversified economy.

Many brands have lost their way in the process of evolving from a small company to a much bigger corporation.

The minute I went into business, I was a success, and I've done well ever since.

An entrepreneur never thinks of quarter-on-quarter; he thinks for 25 years, 50 years.

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.

My entire business model is to go on offense.

I like building teams and I want to run my own show, in the nicest possible way, to see how far I can go, starting with getting Macclesfield further up the table.

Business is my passion.

People often ask me if my parents helped me. My mother did lend me $10 to register the domain name.

It is incredibly fun to run a company like AMD.

Businesses look for stability; they look for direction.

U.S. companies are innovative and entrepreneurial.

When we grew up, we wanted to do two things: to own a sports team and a casino.

Build your empire on the firm foundation of the fundamentals.

Somehow over the years people have gotten the impression that Wal-Mart was...just this great idea that turned into an overnight success. But...it was an outgrowth of everything we'd been doing since [1945]...And like most overnight successes, it was about twenty years in the making.

Businessmen are always trying to advance their business interests, but they are not running for Prime Minister.