Business Scaling Quotes

We had grown too fast at PayPal. Our operating expenses had grown too fast... Growth covers a lot of sin. We want to grow without sin.

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

I feel that business leaders with their ability to create businesses, with their ability to scale, need to play an important role in social service.

While good business ideas are plentiful, many entrepreneurs struggle to understand payroll taxes, health care and other thorny issues… In other words, they don't have the financial literacy to scale their businesses and attract investors.

Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.

Being able to dedicate 100 per cent of my time to impacting more businesses without being operational, it just gives me a bigger platform.

Many brands have lost their way in the process of evolving from a small company to a much bigger corporation.

There's an assumption that women don't start companies that earn more than X amount of dollars, or that have more than X amount of users, and Bumble is now really growing into one of the main players if you look at all the mainstream social-media platforms.

As the company grows and about this 25 or so employee size, your main job shifts from building a great product to building a great company.

What I've learned in my career is that it takes the same amount of effort to build a $10bn company as it does a $1bn company; you as the entrepreneur are going to put your entire life, your entire effort into it.

As you grow, the productivity I think, goes down with the square of the number of employees if you don't make an effort.

The most important question venture capitalists ask is what prevents your company from growing faster.

The more people you meet, and the more people you have influence over your business can scale quicker.

You can't be the accountant in your accounting firm. You can't cut the grass in your landscaping business. You can't work on the vehicles in your auto repair shop... And you really can't spend all of your time managing those actions, either.

The only choice that leads small business owners to real success in their endeavors is the one that requires real thought. Understanding and building the systems they need within their company to afford them a framework of organization that can scale the business from a company of one to a company of one thousand.

Don't scale because you think there's a pot of gold over that rainbow. Scale because you're ready and eager to do heroic work, every day, forever.

I like the challenge of growing small companies into big global companies.

AOL has a great collection of brands, and the question is, 'Can they innovate and scale their business?' And those are very challenging things to do. But I think they are well positioned to grow.

We did a year of Uber in San Francisco before we went to a second city. You get those processes down, then you really get started.

As you get bigger, your staff gets bigger, and your costs get bigger.

To scale your business, you need to delegate responsibilities to others and establish a strong company culture.

It's easy to grow 300% in your first year or two, when you're starting with nothing and people first hear about your service. What separates a potential colossus from other businesses is the capacity to keep growing at that rate in years four, five, and beyond.

In the past, when venture-funded startups told their investors they'd found a profitable business model, the first thing VCs would do is to start looking for an 'operating exec' - usually an MBA who would act as the designated 'adult' and take over the transition from Search to Build.

We're no longer a small business; we're a large organization spread around the world. I can't imagine Netscape growing as fast as it has if it weren't for the way we use our products.

One of the things we have learned in the first year is that if you want to scale-up, the first thing you have to do is to expand your own team.