Andrew Oliver Quotes

When business became big business - conglomerates employing hundreds and even thousands of people - companies divided themselves into still smaller units.

I've found that entrepreneurship only gets harder every year, and as your team gets bigger, the stakes get higher.

Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time.

As one of the first employees at a small cellular phone start-up called Nextel, I gained firsthand experience in how a business grows from an idea to a company that, at its peak, employed many thousands.

Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

You'll have to hire people to expand your business. But it's a good discipline to really question if you need each and every hire.

Firms need to ensure that their ability to provide effective customer service keeps pace with their growth. If you're marketing your firm to new customers, you better be able to provide them service when they do business with you.

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?

In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.

Everybody starts with creating or acquiring certain property in order to create the material to work with. When we started our business, we thought first of all about development, how to grow, and we managed to do this, even with all the difficulties and all the difficult rules that were implemented in Russia at that time.

Several other aerospace and defense firms have announced plans to build facilities in north Mississippi in recent weeks. They join an impressive group of high-tech companies already doing business in our region.

Your own business growth and success depends on many things, and along that growing path, you are going to have to concede certain responsibilities and activities - whether for your accounting, your production, or day-to-day management.

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

I think you should always have a big team behind you if you are a big brand because it makes you think big.

I used to work at HAL, where I made 'Kirby' and 'Smash Bros.' After that, I became an independent designer, but I didn't have my own team.

If you're not working to get your business or investing operation to operate without you, you're thinking too small. Think team and systems.

If I were to spend investor money on nice furnishings and so forth, particularly early on, I might not have it for opportunities that can really grow our business.

Indiana will always be open for business, and we look forward to welcoming more great new jobs into our state.

When a company gets bigger, when it begins to bring on employees, it naturally goes through this tendency of wanting to control, of wanting to build process - essentially to say not every one of our customers or employees has great judgment.

I'm a businessman. I work for business people. The kind of thing they say is: Now we've sold a lot of records, let's sell some more.

You put together the best team that you can with the players you've got, and replace those who aren't good enough.

Specialization and organization are the basis of human progress.

We have to do a much better job at keeping our jobs. And we have to do a much better job at giving companies incentives to build new companies or to expand, because they're not doing it.

I honestly never dreamed at the time that I would one day own the Starbucks and or be in a position where we would have more than 10,000 stores around the world. It has just been an incredible journey for all of us.