Stefan Persson Quotes

An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.

I have a good eye for great projects, talent, and entrepreneurs.

It's a special person - and personality - who can lead a start-up to soaring success and sustain that success for the long term. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg are star examples.

My expertise is running businesses.

I've often thought of successful entrepreneurs as individuals who have just the right expertise - at just the right moment - to solve the emerging problems of their time.

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

The best founders are extremely thoughtful and have an eye for quality. I don't know if there's any generic advice here that would be helpful. Startup knowledge is a moving target.

Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.

Everyone does a style book, and I wanted to write a business book for people that didn't think they would like a business book.

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.

My business acumen is definitely growing.

My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did.

You have to do stuff that you're actually incredibly passionate and excited about and you know something about. The 'oppor-tuneurs' don't do as well as the entrepreneurs.

Elon Musk is an incredibly prolific entrepreneur, having come up with, or been at the founding team of Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity, PayPal, all different industries that seem to have nothing to do with each other.

Being an entrepreneur means being a creative businessperson.

I wasn't born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

I think I am a savvy businesswoman.

I have to think my success in the VC business was due in no small part to seeing Larry Ellison in action back in the day.

Technical co-founders are great at envisioning where the company's going from a strategic standpoint. They have what I call the 'gut-feel' of building out their business.

A successful entrepreneur is one who recognizes her blind spots. You may be the world's best engineer, but you probably have never run a 10-person sales force. You may be a brilliant marketer, but how do you structure a cap table?

I know this business better than most people, and I'm extremely passionate about it.

In early 2011, I had the opportunity to meet and spend significant time with Alfred Lin, a partner at Sequoia Capital and co-founder of Zappos.

I will be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars, because I got the answers.

I'm not a business person.