Peter York Quotes

I did not want to write just another business book.

I always told myself I was more than a football player, so every off season, I pushed myself to go outside the box and get a little bit better off the field. I dabbled in many business adventures to gain more real world experience.

I don't have any great ambition to go out and make money. But I am still fascinated in starting up businesses and starting it in a way and running in a way that I want to do it.

I'm not big on reading business books. I get copies of all of them, because people want me to put a comment on the jacket. Every once in a while, I'll get interested and read one all the way through.

I'm a really boring bloke, actually. My business is my hobby.

My dad owns a company that lends equipment to industrial projects. I've been obsessed with taking it over since I could talk. I'd follow him and repeat conversations about how many tons of cranes were arriving. He said it was a man's world, so I studied electrical engineering because it was related.

I built a steel plant from the grassroots, so I learned all the nuts and bolts. When there was a problem, I would be able to guide them, though I am not a technical person.

Well, you know, I was a human being before I became a businessman.

Not everyone is born to run a $4 billion company. There is no magic formula. I've learned, and I've grown by learning. That's why I've enjoyed being in business so much: It's stretched me.

I don't think I ever dreamt of going into business. No one in my family was in business.

I've been preparing to run a big company all my life.

I've trained my people in mentoring entrepreneurs and made myself obsolete.

I would be better at my job if I were technical.

Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.

I hope to continue acquiring companies, not so much for the accumulation of wealth but because it's what I do well, and you always like to do what you do well.

My twenties were my practice. My thirties were when I really hit my stride with GoPro and did all the heavy lifting to build the business.

Doing consulting and government relations on the hill took up a lot less time than running a record store and brought in a lot more money

Every job in a company is important. Unless you experience a wide range of those jobs, I don't think you are as well prepared to start and run a company as you could be.

I'm not here to tell you what your average needs to be, but it would seem to me that one way to protect yourself, as an entrepreneur, from the dreaded average is to understand what that looks like in your industry, your business, and your personal life and take the steps to be above average.

When I graduate, I will either run a division of a company... or I'll get funding for my own company.

I want to advance myself in some areas. I want to go into broadcasting, be a boxing commentator and still get to travel, and I want to take courses so I can speak better. I want to take courses in business and promotion.

Whatever your hustle is, go somewhere with it.

My advice, it's get involved in any and every aspect of the business that affords itself to you.

I am not interested in the technology business, at least not in getting hands-on.

I'm terrified of having to go back to a day job. And that's why I'm training like a man possessed. Because I want to keep winning.