Jorgen Vig Knudstorp Quotes

As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.

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

I think the people who've been the most overconfident in our business in the last decade have been the people that called themselves risk managers.

'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth.

I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

It's not wise to limit firms' expansion projects. Let us only be limited by the market.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

Start-ups make so many mistakes that the challenge to identify the root cause of a failure is tough. But believing in your own plan is probably the worst.

Entrepreneurs are great at dealing with uncertainty and also very good at minimizing risk. That's the classic great entrepreneur.

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

I have great expectations for our company; pretzels were just the beginning.

Great companies have been reduced by hiring executives that don't work out.

With chefs, the problem is we have to be very confident because people are looking at us for that. So pretty soon, you think you're a plumber, you think you're an electrician, you think you're an accountant.

For a startup, you need to stay small so the others don't attack, or you aim to be one of the big guys. If you don't do it right, you might lose everything.

It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured.

Forget luxury; as a great company you have to keep evolving.

The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.

And our size: The company this year is going to be close to $50 billion, so if that's the case and you can continue to grow that fast, I would rather put my energies to solving customer problems and growing our business than worrying about integrating and laying people off.

The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America.

The successful companies try to keep the new entrants down. Now that's great for a company like ours. We make more money that way because we have less competition and less innovation. But for the country as a whole, it's horrible.

For small businesses trying to figure out how to get big, I would say you are going to have to take some risks. And I think that is what shuts off most people. They are not willing take the risk.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

But when someone is on a winning horse, and everything looks wonderful, it's very hard as an outsider to persuade them something is wrong.

The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.