Julie Wainwright Quotes

Whenever people think of the dot-com collapse, they think of a handful of companies that epitomized the era, and Pets.com... is always up there, right?

The worst excesses of the dot-com era are gone.

At the height of the first great dot-com boom, Craig Kanarick, then in his early 30s, was running Razorfish, a Web design firm he'd co-founded with an old friend, which at its peak had 2,300 employees in nine countries.

I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.

During the 2000 bubble, many companies rushed to go public before they had any revenue.

I would think that most of the online business will be conducted by traditional retailers and that over 90 per cent of the e-retailers will, in fact, all go out of business.

When Netscape failed, it didn't mean the Internet was over.

I experienced the year 2000 dot com crash and the 2008 financial crisis, and it almost wiped out the company.

It is incredibly important to set goals for your business, as if you have no direction for your business, your online business will be a failure.

When the internet came up, scores of companies were created. But many of them collapsed during the dot.com bubble.

Online is not contributing in the same way as the high street in terms of business rates and to the local community.

While entrepreneurs spend a lot of effort trying to avoid failure, sometimes the lessons one learns from those missteps can be invaluable.

Gox is the worst-run business in the history of the world.

Nine out of ten businesses fail; so I came up with a foolproof plan - create ten businesses.

I know that you don't know, but you don't know that you don't know! By that I mean there are three reasons why individuals and businesses fail: 1. Arrogance 2. Arrogance 3. Arrogance.

Any business that does not innovate will fail over time.

Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationships is.

Many of my biggest business endeavors were failures before they became a success. Some failed for as long as six years before they hit. Everyone around me thought I was crazy. You just have to stay at it.

It's not that you have jobs on the Internet, but the Internet makes it possible for more people to build their own jobs. What it does is, it erodes the power of institutions. It used to be you needed an institution to have a job. But, if you look at the three of us on this show, I don't think any of us is really employed by an institution. We run our own lives.

Don't get cocky just because you've had a good run. You can lose your business as fast as you've earned it.

If I have noticed anything over these 60 years on Wall Street, it is that people do not succeed in forecasting what's going to happen to the stock market.

The problem with most failing businesses is not that their owners don?t know enough about finance, marketing, management, and operations - they don?t, but those things are easy enough to learn - but that they spend their time and energy defending what they think they know. My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren?t so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.

Lots of companies don’t succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future. I try to focus on that: What is the future really going to be? And how do we create it? And how do we power our organization to really focus on that and really drive it at a high rate? When I was working on Android, I felt guilty. It wasn’t what we were working on, it was a start-up, and I felt guilty. That was stupid! It was the future.

Part of the entrepreneurial thing is there are lots of ways to die.

So I became a publisher by mistake - well, not quite by mistake, because I wanted to be an editor but I had to make sure the magazine would survive. The point is this: Most businesses fail, so if you're going to succeed, it has to be about more than making money.