Douglas Leone Quotes

The Entrepreneurial Perspective is absolutely necessary for the creation of a great, growing business.

I spend most of my career as a management consultant, a businessman working with family-owned small and medium-sized businesses. The businesses that make up the core of our economy.

I've said it for four decades - work 'on' your business, not just 'in' your business!

Honestly, if I could be anything, I'd love to be a small-business authority type of person.

I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.

Once you have a product that you are happy with, you the need to centralize things to continue growth.

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

Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.

As I've said, in 2007, we're free to go and we'll just have to do what's best for the business.

I look at building business as a creative process that I enjoy.

Entrepreneurs have a great ability to create change, be flexible, build companies and cultivate the kind of work environment in which they want to work.

Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business side.

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?

I like being part of a big company's executive team. It's fun to stretch other parts of my brain, considering questions like, 'How should we think of acquisitions?' I get to be privy to things that would never come up at a small company.

You can't run a €10 million business the way you run a €1 million business.

I've been kicking around this business for a long time.

Dealing with business and trying to create never mixes for me.

Leaders of companies of any size, at any stage of development spend a lot of time focused on growing the business. We develop our game plan and ensure that we are optimally executing on our objectives. We concentrate on looking forward.

I've really thought a lot about why other companies fail or succeed. I had to be a student of failure and find out why things went off the rails. I did that at a fairly deep level, and it's still something I do.

My business is circumference.

I just really love business.

I consider myself a businessman, not a celebrity or a music star. When I'm getting involved with something I need to executive produce it or be a part of putting it together as an investor. I want to play both sides. That's more important to me than just being a celebrity.

With the premise that we look for technical co-founders to run a company, I view myself as being a coach to that technical co-founder. I can help them with their business issues, with the growth issues of taking a company from a very early stage to something much larger.

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

This industry is a business - I'm a business myself, and I want to be able to run my own business.