Martin Sorrell Quotes

Well, we are expanding in all of our segments of the market.

I don’t think there’s any company that has reached $1 billion in revenue as fast as Xiaomi. In every conceivable benchmark, it’s almost unprecedented in terms of its speed of growth.

Anytime there is a new, interesting space that comes along, there are a bunch of companies that enter the market.

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.

We have substantially improved our position in Japan which now represents a major part of our business.

I see opportunities in all my businesses. And the reason is simple. We thrive on countries that are urbanizing.

When we acquire businesses in the developing world, we estimate if the growth opportunities are strong.

On the ground, our operations are in India. We believe we are in a country where the growth is still to be captured, so we will remain reasonably focused in this country.

I'm building a large company.

I think it's natural for any manager to want to grow his business. The question is at what rate, and in what direction, and in what format?

We want to make as big a market as we can with our current product.

It is important to exhaust the potential of existing markets. But it is equally important to open up new markets.

Consequently, a young business often grows by large percentages. Mature businesses rarely do.

There is no more rapid growth in the history of capitalistic enterprise.

India is a large market where our focus will be to grow faster than the market and add few percentage points to our market share every year.

As I spent tons of time with customers, not just in the United States, but in emerging markets, in Europe, in Latin America, top of mind for everybody is how do they drive growth for their business going forward.

India is a fast-growth market and is developing a lot. We continue to increase our partners here and make investments.

Growth and momentum are what a startup lives on and you always have to focus on maintaining these.

Competition should not be for a share of the market-but to expand the market.

When a small business grows like eBay did, it has a multiplier effect. It creates other small businesses that supply it with intellectual capital, goods and services.

I care much more about the growth rate of the market than it's current size and I also care if there's any reason it's going to top out.

I believe in evolution and I think when it comes to business and the roots of business and the fundamentals of business, I don't think that ever changes. I think the idea of change is an illusion, but in nature it's necessary to change and perhaps business is a part of nature. I'm not totally sure.

You can invest to create the new growth business while the core business is still growing, because new business units don't need to get big fast. But when the core business stops growing, investing to create new growth businesses becomes impossible.

When we opened Babbo, we were an indie band. Now we're kinda Apple. We have 19 restaurants and 2,800 employees, we are no longer perceived as the indie band although we think of ourselves as the indie band, and we operate our restaurants as individual indie bands.

It's a mistake to predict the size of markets that are so new. This model has shown no signs of slowing down. So we are going to get as much of it as we possibly can, and when we get close to that we'll figure out other problems.