Business Building Quotes

My personal experience with companies in the PayPal ecosystem taught me that a superb engineering culture is indispensable to building a winning business.

I grew up in a household that revered building businesses. It wasn't thinking about leadership; it was more about building something. To build something, you ultimately have to lead.

Good debt growth is when you borrow money, and it goes into the real economy. You do capital spending. You build businesses.

I've always had a talent for building businesses - and, importantly, for creating jobs. That's a talent America desperately needs.

First, in order to build a business, you have to be able to sell because Sales = Income. When income is lacking, it's usually because the owner doesn't like to, doesn't know how to, or is simply reluctant to sell. Without sales, however, you have no income.

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

The richest people in the world build networks; everyone else is trained to look for work.

Now I don't work for the money or the glory. I just work because I like building businesses.

Passion gets an entrepreneur through the startup days and the enormous efforts it takes to build a business.

Jon Miller would be amazing for Yahoo because he is extremely good at building display advertising businesses and buying young startups.

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.

Creating the right advisory board for your startup can be the single most important step you take in building a new business.

There's no seminar in the world that will give you multi million-dollar advice on building a business from scratch!

The fact that my father set out on his own to build Hyatt - a business the family was not in and a business he was learning about as he was building it - is instructive.

I understand the highs and lows of building a global business from the ground and taking that initial product idea all the way to the market.

Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn't achieved without it.

Successful enterprises are built from the ground up. You can't assemble them with a bunch of acquisitions.

I'm just focusing on 'Let's Stay Together' and slowly building my production company. I'm trying to get into writing as well.

If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises are built from the ground up.

Develop the business around the people; build it, don't buy it; and, then, be the best.

Our business is all about helping someone - a founder, a CEO - building a great business. It's not about seeing our names in the press.

Building a business is like building a home. If the foundation rests on an unstable setting or is constructed with subpar materials, it doesn't matter if the rest of the home is perfect. It will never be a joy to its owner

What I like to say when you get into something that feels like a bubble or, at least, feels irrational is that you still want to build a company that has a strong discipline, business-building culture.

A big part of the accelerator is to help scientists become entrepreneurs. I like to think about each business being built on three major areas: creating the value, creating the product, and extracting the value. We provide help in each of these areas.

Starting a business and building a product are not for the faint of heart. You have to learn to not let little disappointments get you down and to stay focused on the big picture.