Business Resilience Quotes

A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.

Over the very long term, history shows that the chances of any business surviving in a manner agreeable to a company's owners are slim at best.

I know there's pros and cons to Trump, and people talk crap that he's had a lot of failed businesses, but failing a lot sometimes means you've tried more. And a lot of those people have succeeded more times than they failed.

As CEO, I believe my most important job is to both define reality and inspire hope for the PayPal team. Defining reality includes being realistic about all the things that could go wrong so that we are prepared to navigate those challenges.

As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment.

I'm convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

Thinking about starting a small business? Assume everything will cost twice as much and take twice as long as you think it will.

I basically got an education in software on DuPont's money because they were too stubborn to admit that a recession was coming.

The denigration of business hurts America, because the secret sauce for our economy is confidence. I don't want to hear that nonsense that all business is bad.

Good businesses will survive good times and bad times.

Good businesses can survive a little bad management.

Every business will face tough times.

To run a successful business, you have to be tough.

The word entrepreneur is associated with success and adventure. From my life, the only thing I can tell you that's consistently associated with entrepreneurship is failure, and the only thing consistently associated with invention is frustration. There is a long road between the idea and the reality.

In the past twenty years, we have lived through several cycles and we have always managed to buy under good terms and conditions at the right time. This has enabled us to build a solid group that is now the world number one.

Finding your entrepreneurial spirit and making it strong is more important than the idea or business you are developing.

Donald Trump has built a business through hard times and through good times. He's brought an extraordinary business acumen, he's employed tens of thousands of people in America.

I started Dell 28 yrs ago with $1000. Revenues in 1984 were $6 million. Last year $62.1 billion. Impossible is nothing.

Strong organizations with strong risk controls will survive and prosper.

I think you have to be when you own your own business. I'm looking at the new No Limit as being a legacy. It's incredible that we've been able to build this up and survive over ten years and we are doing the right thing by maintaining.

We opened the first Men's Wearhouse in Houston in August 1973, then a store a year for 10 years in Texas. In the early 1980s I opened a store in the San Francisco Bay Area. Within the year, the Texas economy was in total disarray. We were facing Chapter 11, and if not for the California store, we might not have survived.

Nine out of ten businesses fail; so I came up with a foolproof plan - create ten businesses.

We've got to get rid of the fear of failure in this country. In America, people start things, fail and shake themselves down and start things again. The animal spirit of capitalism is stronger there.

How fast a company can respond in an emergency is a measure of its corporate reflexes.

The very first company I started failed with a great bang. The second one failed a little bit less, but still failed. The third one, you know, proper failed, but it was kind of okay. I recovered quickly. Number four almost didn't fail. It still didn't really feel great, but it did okay. Number five was PayPal.