Company Founder Quotes

I was very lucky. I started my own commercial company.

I've been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies.

In 1893 I founded a chemical company which I ran until 1899.

Konosuke Matsushita was a visionary entrepreneur. He started working very young as a teenager, and he eventually created Panasonic to become a truly global company.

Yahoo to me, as the founder of a company, is one of the biggest opportunities you could have; it's one of those classic Internet companies.

I'm the founder of the McAfee Anti-Virus Software Company. Although I have had nothing to do with this company for over 15 years, I still get volumes of mail asking 'how do I uninstall this software'. I have no idea.

Obviously solving the education problem is big and complex, and there's already so many failings, but coding is the new fluency. This is the most valuable skill of this century. If you want to be a founder of a company, and not even just a tech company, but like a founder of a company, because I'm telling you software is going to play a role.

HartBeat Productions is a company established by me; it's mine. I run it. I have employees.

The big value of the founder running the company is really two things: the knowledge and the commitment.

I've been a business person for 30 years. I started my own companies; I've invested in others.

Empirically the way you get a product visionary as CEO is for him to found the company and not get fired.

For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.

I've always been an entrepreneur. I start businesses for a living.

Travis Kalanick was and is the perfect person to lead Uber, a product I knew from day one was going to be big.

I had $20,000, and I started up JYSK.

The decision to leave a company you founded and move on to a new project is never an easy one.

An entrepreneur is not a person who starts a company, but he is the person who actually solves a problem.

I was first hired at Staples in 1992, by company founder Tom Stemberg and eventual CEO Ron Sargent, to be the first director of marketing and merchandising for the catalog business.

I was an executive running a pretty substantial group before becoming CEO, and I had no idea what it was like. When something goes wrong, people say, 'It's all your fault.' Your reaction is, 'It's not my fault.' But what do you mean? I was the founder, I hired everybody in the company, I was managing it.

As the founder of your company, you must be in love with your brand and inspired by your brand's mission if you have any hope of getting press for your product.

It's my company and I believe in the company that's why I started it.

My first company produced 'Silicon Alley Reporter' magazine, where I held the dual titles of CEO and Editor.

This is Steve's company. This is still Steve's company. It was born that way; it's still that way. And so his spirit, I think, will always be the DNA of this company.

Larry Fink, 61, tall and outgoing and passionate about his business, is the chairman, CEO, and co-founder of the largest asset-management company in the world, BlackRock.