Martin Naughton Quotes

My father built a small manufacturing business. I worked alongside him and saw firsthand the challenges that business owners face.

Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.

I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.

When I started Netscape I was brand new out of college and all the aspects of building a business, like balance sheets and hiring people, were new to me.

I am a very hands-on person, and I like to be involved in driving my business.

As a former small business owner, I recognize both the important role small businesses play in our economy and the broad universe of challenges that small business owners face in trying to make ends meet.

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.

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

I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less.

I spend most of my career as a management consultant, a businessman working with family-owned small and medium-sized businesses. The businesses that make up the core of our economy.

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.

Other than playing the game I love, my passion is investing in innovative companies and helping the entrepreneurs behind them succeed.

When I looked into the mechanics of being a businessman, I found it wasn't rocket science.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

I was always fascinated by the decision-making process and the managerial process and just business in general.

I didn't realize how hard it was to run a small business.

Running a business anywhere isn't easy.

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

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

It helps to have founded and run a company if you're going to help somebody run a company who is a founder.

Look, you need technical skills to run a company.

Most regular, two-year MBA programs provide both experience and the capacity to link together the essential elements of management such as finance, marketing, organizational behavior, and operations.

I never took classic business classes in college, so I don't have the background that any of the people running large companies have.

As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some sort.

I spent most of my career operating businesses and fixing businesses, not staring at a Bloomberg screen.