Walt Disney Quotes

Strategies grow initially like weeds in a garden, they are not cultivated like tomatoes in a hothouse.

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.

I never really thought I'd have the opportunity to run this business. It's an industry I grew up in. I watched EDS being formed in our living room at night.

Change can't be a compulsion. It has to happen organically.

Business, endorsements and things of that nature, I got into it kinda naturally. Those ventures materialised as a direct result of things that I was actually doing; all the partnerships have been organic and not necessarily etched out plans for monetary gain.

Most of what I learned as an entrepreneur was by trial and error.

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.

If an idea cannot move on its own, pushing it doesn't help; best to let it lie there.

The tree which fills the arms grew from the tiniest sprout.

On Startups: "I hate it when people call themselves "entrepreneurs" when what they're really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell or go public, so they can cash in and move on.

The true start-up of a business is what happens before you start-up.

Building a business is not rocket science, it's about having a great idea and seeing it through with integrity.

I so much like real things - the realities that come naturally from the depths of us like - what shall I say? - the way trees grow, from some inner essential principle of them, just expressing itself.

Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.

Our plate is full. We have a lot to do building our company organically and that is our key focus.

The story of my billion-dollar business starts like this. I borrowed $1,000 from a friend.

Don't try to solve the entire problem on day one.

I think a lot of becoming an entrepreneur is something which people have to learn just from getting out there and giving it a go, and having to learn the art of survival.

If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the adjusting constructiveness of all other growing things. A tree cannot find out, as it were, how to blossom, until comes blossom-time. A social growth cannot find out the use of steam engines, until comes steam-engine-time.

Building a mission and building a business go hand-in-hand. It is true that the primary thing that makes me excited about what we're doing is the mission, but I also think, from the very beginning, we've had this healthy understanding which is that we need to do both.

You have to be ready for hard work and frugal spending to get the idea off the ground.

You can't delegate growth or customer satisfaction.

I understand small business growth. I was one.

Like the color black, business mixed with anything turns to business.

I want to be a serial entrepreneur: Incubate an idea, get it to a good state, and make that an enabler to get to the next state. It's every researcher's fantasy.