Brendan Iribe Quotes

It's much harder these days as a start-up to do physical devices.

I had to learn everything about manufacturing, patents and how to run a business, and eventually I came up with an prototype that worked.

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

In the movies, you want a good story and characters that are honest, but you are also looking for a good director who can lead the ship. That's how we look at business. Everybody has a great idea for a start-up, and so do their relatives, and they tell me, 'You gotta build it.' I say, 'I have to believe in it.'

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

When you're a young talent, and you want to launch your brand, you always have tons of questions: Where should I produce? Should I launch a second line? Should I do shoes, accessories? If you have someone who can coach you and give you advice and help you find the right supplier, it's a big help.

Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan.

People don't know how hard it is to have your own business.

How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea.

Running a business anywhere isn't easy.

I have a business background. I have always wanted to open my own business.

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

For the last five years I've been in the production business.

I don't think you should ever start a business and move in a direction where you can't see it becoming a business.

I think running a business, doing what I've done for the last - since 1996, has taught me so many things because I started from just an idea and then had to figure out how to make it, market it, every single thing from soup to nuts on how to get a product done and out there.

I consider each business investment based on concept and revenue.

Be it $15 million here and $11 million there, it takes hundreds of millions to be successful in this business.

The tools used by economists to analyze business firms are too abstract and speculative to offer any guidance to entrepreneurs and managers in their constant struggle to bring novel products to consumers at low cost.

Access to capital is important for all firms, but it's particularly vital for startups and young firms, which often lack a sufficient stream of earnings to increase employment and internally finance capital spending.

I couldn't stand not controlling my own product from how it's manufactured to how it's sold.

I'm running a business.

The economic costs of starting your own business can be significant; in fact, most new startup companies fail because of undercapitalization.

Invest in good, solid companies in good sectors.

Capital never builds great products.

The way we want to look at it is we would like to do end-to-end design in India. We've invested for many years, and so at some point, to do end-to-end product in India is very much a possibility.