Quotes About Business

I've been lucky enough to be involved in a number of great startups, including eBay and Wikia as an entrepreneur and LinkedIn and Paypal as an investor.

Slapping a catchy acronym like the JOBS Act on a piece of legislation makes it more difficult for politicians to oppose it - and indeed that's what happened with the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act.

I'm a creature of startups. For example, I don't want government interference in the startup ecosystem.

All companies - and not just startups - face the same eternal challenge: resource allocation.

Before Blockchain Capital, I was cranking out startups like an incubator.

Little startups are ridiculously overfunded.

All throughout my life I have been deeply immersed in startups, either because I was running one or investing in them or helping them.

I was always really interested in startups and fascinated by what they were working on.

We believe that startups can be built anywhere.

Since most startups operate at a break-neck pace, with a concept to prove or a product to launch within a rapidly shortening runway of financing, company culture often gets shoved aside. This is a big, big mistake: Nobody serious about their business should put culture in the corner.

I've been all over the world meeting with companies and startups and entrepreneurs. And I tell you, they are more similar than different.

I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.

Startups are constantly raising money, sometimes before they have even hired a lawyer.

Being a starving company isn't fun for anyone. Most that go away need to go away... but certainly not all.

If you are under the illusion that you can start a business and run it at your life's schedule, you are mistaken. The business is like a starving puppy - when it needs to eat, then it needs to eat regardless of what you have going on personally.

The last thing I want is a conflict of interest between my family's businesses and state government. Even the slightest whiff of a conflict won't fly with me.

For business owners, there are many important documents to learn to read. One of the most important is the profit and loss statement, known as the P&L, and the balance sheet.

The fact is that one of the earliest lessons I learned in business was that balance sheets and income statements are fiction, cash flow is reality.

As authors, we all have to learn not to be reactive to public statements about our books. It's really not our business what each reader thinks of them.

Of all the depressing abuses of language in business, there is none that gets me so incensed as the rampant overuse of the word 'passionate' in company slogans, marketing blurbs, mission statements and on the sides of vans.

American capitalists, enthralled by the doctrines of finance, have put their income statements in service of the balance sheet.

According to my royalty statements, 'The Green Progression' sold 392 copies in hardcover.

I didn't have any work to do, and I had files of my personal and Guns N' Roses financial statements for the previous eight years. I wanted to learn how to read these, but I didn't trust anybody. I just got a lightbulb in my head and said, 'I want to go to school.' That began my journey, taking accountancy and business classes at Seattle.

Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.