Victor Pinchuk Quotes

1976, I was all of 18, and when I stepped into the world of business, the capital I had in my hand was 20,000 rupees.

You must take risks, both with your own money or with borrowed money. Risk taking is essential to business growth.

Embrace your fire - even in hard times. A down economy can actually be a great time to start a business.

When I returned from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972, my father was running a forging business with a turnover of Rs 3.5 crore. But I had no patience and wanted to grow the business via exports.

Many businesses fail because the owner wasn't willing to invest and wasn't educated on the difference between spending money frivolously and investing money into the business for growth, and the risks and rewards of that cash infusion.

When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!

When you are buying companies, everyone in the company feels very good. Their chests are puffed out. At Blackstone, I used to tell people that there is nothing more fun than buying a company with somebody else's money. The business is growing, which creates more opportunity for your employees.

One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.

I started with shoes, and with hard work and discipline, the business prospered.

I've repeated time and again that Arizona is open for business.

Once our construction business began to win more contracts, our business success allowed us to reap the benefits of all the risks we took to start our company and we were able to resolve and settle outstanding fees.

Who wishes to give himself an abundance of business let him equip these two things, a ship and a woman. For no two things involve more business, if you have begun to fit them out. Nor are these two things ever sufficiently adorned, nor is any excess of adornment enough for them.

It's actually a pretty basic concept: when businesses feel secure and confident, they are more likely to grow, hire, and invest. Conversely, when the economy is unstable, businesses often become much more risk averse, and in many cases, they're forced to make undesirable cuts that affect their bottom line.

Confidence, capital, and new markets fuel entrepreneurship and job-generating expansion of existing businesses.

During my administration, we've welcomed a broad and diverse group of industries to New Mexico, including high-tech and traditional manufacturing, health care, information technology and finance. Some are homegrown New Mexico companies; others are global leaders in their industries.

We all get into business, and we take a risk in terms of putting capital.

I've been kicking around this business for a long time.

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.

We've got to start making people realise that it's a proud thing to run a business, to export your goods around the country.

We'll look after the people who create jobs and business and give them that opportunity to grow in the time ahead.

In just a few years, I have turned my small company into a multi-million dollar makeup empire.

Economic recovery begins with our small businesses.

Supporting iconic, growth-oriented industries, combined with tax policies that encourage small business growth and investment, represents a potent combination and is the basis of our entire administration.

In 2004, we opened our first store in Manhattan. I installed a big window so people could see me making the chocolates. That store cost $1.8 million. It has a 45-foot-long chocolate counter and a hot chocolate bar made in Louis XVI style because that's when chocolate arrived in Europe.