Moby Quotes

When I was 25, I had risked everything to launch Justin Bieber and was a couple months away from losing everything.

I have always been a business person.

I'm a horrible business person.

Starting a business is risky. Half of all new businesses fail to experience a fifth anniversary. And everyone knows that you could lose all the money you've invested in your new company and then some. Those are the obvious risks of trying to be an entrepreneur.

When I started Go Daddy, I tried many things - like building networks and selling education - and none of it panned out. I lost millions of dollars the first couple of years. I made a lot of wrong turns, but that's the process of being successful in business.

Mitt Romney runs on the claim “I ran a business, therefore I know how to run the country.” Actually, all he did was fire people.

WeWork is my fifth venture. I failed in my first, second and third, had mediocre success in the fourth.

Most of what I learned as an entrepreneur was by trial and error.

I think Donald Trump is gonna do great. Because I've worked with him and known him a long time. He's a guy who is not programmed to fail.

I'm not very good at business. I'm more of a creative, fun-loving hippie type.

The truth is that most small businesses will not succeed and you need to be emotionally prepared for this.

I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less.

It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.

… a pin lies in wait for every bubble. And when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons..

Entrepreneurs … benefit greatly from being willing to fail, willing to experiment. Good entrepreneurs tend to be stubborn on the vision but flexible on the details. They’re persistent on what they’re trying to accomplish, but they are willing to rewrite the details as needed as they learn and as things fail.

In any country, … only a small portion of the income earned in any year is a result of individual work effort, ingenuity and risk-taking. The rest is explained by the natural resources with which that country is endowed, the physical infrastructure, the collective know-how of fellow citizens, the quality of public and private institutions, and the degree of trust that greases the wheels of commerce, politics and everyday life.

In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions.

I've had failures myself before Uber.

I've had a real business education.

I spent 26 years watching my dad, and I didn't know anything about the business until I started myself.

The greatest challenge to most innovation centers around the world is many nations' punitive attitudes towards failure. In most of the world, if your first business fails, no one will work with you again. But, trial and error is the genesis of innovation.

I don't know any successful entrepreneur that doesn't have at least a handful of stories about the things they did that went horribly wrong.

But I was an utterly hopeless politician and I worked out that I would be much better suited to making money and running businesses than the compromise that is politics.

As good and as smart as you may be, no one knows everything. I truly wish I was as smart as I thought I was when I started my first company.

Like many start-up stories, mine has been rocky.