Theo Paphitis Quotes

You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.

All innovation begins with vision. It’s what happens next that is critical.

Change, create, inspire. Dreams really do work.

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. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation of the finer things in life.

I started with no money. I had to borrow money in the beginning. I'm always a dreamer. I dream and envision what to do, then my wife will help me realize those dreams. I always conceptualize.

The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

One method of staying ahead of rising asset prices and the declining dollar is to think bigger and come up with better plans. As important as financial and business planning is a plan for personal development and self-improvement. I'm often asked to invest in people's business plans, and one of the reasons I turn many of them down is because a big plan requires a big person who's spent time on personal development. In a lot of cases, a business plan is far bigger than the person with the plan - that is, the dream is bigger than the dreamer.

Real leaders like Lee Iacocca see vast possibilities and sell their dreams to their companies, their employees, their funding sources, their government and their buying public.

For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real.

It is hope in this wider sense which enabled my father to build, from scratch, one of India's largest modern enterprises. His was an undertaking powered by hard work, initiative, self-belief but, above all else, the capacity, as he would often say, "to dream with your eyes wide open".

Success shuns the man who lacks ideas.

Growth has no limit at Reliance. I keep revising my vision. Only when you dream it you can do it.

We know that dreams fuel innovation.

As long as we dare to dream and don't get in the way of ourselves, anything is possible - there's truly no end to where our dreams can take us.

I knew I wanted to be successful in some form or fashion. My first dreams and aspirations of being successful was probably that I wanted to be a successful drug dealer. I wanted to be Nino Brown. That was my first dream.

Not much happens without a dream. And for something great to happen, there must be a great dream. Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams. Much more than a dreamer is required to bring it to reality; but the dream must be there first.

Did you ever build a castle in the Air? Here is one, brought down to earth and fixed for the wonder of ages.

In Genua, someone set out to make dreams come true. Remember some of your dreams?

There is the potential for dreams to come true, for records to be broken, and medals to be won, and at this time everyone believes that they individually have the potential to make their dream a reality.

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.

My dreams are my dress rehearsals for my future.

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. A prominent educator tells me that fairy tales are of untold value in developing imagination in the young. I believe it.

Entrepreneurs are visionaries - they see things other people don't see.

No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.