Adena Friedman Quotes

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!

Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.

An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.

Prove to yourself that your business, in micro-scale at least, creates value. If you believe it, you'll find it that much easier to convince potential investors, partners and employees, too.

There are companies with management and companies with money. You can always find money. Management is the key to success in any business.

For small businesses trying to figure out how to get big, I would say you are going to have to take some risks. And I think that is what shuts off most people. They are not willing take the risk.

We all get into business, and we take a risk in terms of putting capital.

Entrepreneurs love to view risk as binary. The more you put on the line, the greater the potential for reward.

Risk-taking is my thing... I think of my company as my chip stack.

People must be realistic when evaluating their business.

You cannot get into business for the fashion of it.

Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.

Business comes and goes and we make a strategic decision that could lead you to whole new place.

I believe in this industry as a business, and I want to continue to grow my own business.

If you want your company to succeed, you have to have the confidence in your business to take a bet on its future - to risk destroying a mediocre business model for the chance to have a strong one.

I didn't generate my success by being a prognosticator. I developed my reputation building our businesses by building great businesses and making them more efficient.

Just like a script, you need to keep a business plan to yourself.

They will therefore not be in a hurry to risk their entire business by expanding too rapidly, but they are the major indicator of whether the manufacturing industry accepts there is a sustainable business in RFID production.

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

People follow proven formulas in any business.

Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.

There's always something happening in the world that creates an opportunity to try to fix a business and build a business.

I've always been an entrepreneur. I start businesses for a living.