Scaling Up Quotes

Why don't we scale up those things that do work.

People who face too many demands - two careers, two children - often scale back somehow. The Obamas scaled up.

Later, you should learn to hire fast and scale up the company, but in the early days the goal should be not to hire. Not to hire.

From an operational perspective, exports challenge companies to design, develop, manufacture and supply products to discerning customers in global markets. This, in turn, motivates companies to scale up the value chain, which results in higher realisations.

It's actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn't losing very much money, it wasn't making very much money, but it was growing.

Growth and momentum are what a startup lives on and you always have to focus on maintaining these.

Many young and beginning farmers start out in local markets. Some stay there, and some scale up.

If we get better our customers will demand we get bigger.

The ideal time period to get an investment is when you've already proved your concept and know what you're doing, and it's about adding water to the seeds.

Momentum and growth are the lifeblood of startups. This is probably in the top three secrets of executing well.

There are three lessons in philanthropy - one, involve the family, especially the spouse. She can be a remarkable driver of your initiative. Two, you need to build an institution, and you need to scale it up. Choose a leader for philanthropy whom you trust. Three, philanthropy needs patience, tenacity and time.

Over the last 20 years, I've worked on or invested in many companies that scaled to 100 million users or more. But here's the thing: You don't start with 100 million users. You start with a few. So, stop thinking big, and start thinking small.

If you want to scale-up, the first thing you have to do is to expand your own team.

There's a historical view that adding process into a scrappy start-up kills innovation, but I'm a firm believer that you need process at some point to remain agile.

There are hundreds, even thousands of remarkable pilot or experimental projects in all fields - in agriculture, health, education. But where do these pilots take us? Do they lead to change on a broader scale? If not, how can we ensure that they have broader impact?

For most software startups, this translates to keep growing. For hardware startups, it translates to don't let your ship date slip.

Studing jewelry gives you an incredible technical background. If you can work on very, very small things, then, I think, typically you find it easier to go bigger rather than the other way around. I think a lot of architects have struggled with small things. Whereas if you start small, it's easier to get bigger.

I would like to see policy makers and international donor agencies realize that it is not enough to give money for demonstration projects. From the very beginning plans should be made for the scaling-up of successful innovations.

It is not enough to give money for demonstration projects. From the very beginning plans should be made for the scaling-up of successful innovations.

I found it very helpful not to do the venture round. Instead, I started with very little money, a few thousand dollars, and I did every job myself. I was the first photographer. I was the first customer service rep. I was the first online marketing person.

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.

The first hundred thousand - that was hard to get, but afterwards, it was easy to make more.

I started off small and then this was just the great opportunity.

A lot of scaling up a company is not very sexy or strategic.

The spirit of defeating a man is the same for ten million men. The strategist makes small things into big things, like building a great Buddha from a one foot model.