Business

“The further something is away from your business, the harder it is for you to get to it over a period of time and build it. Cause usually what you wanna do is do, do hops and hops, but if you take a big leap, sometimes you leap too far and it's really hard to …”

“And when I do those things, I save time and time is worth money. But on the business side, when I create something that generates value for the business, They make more money and then they want more of that thing.”

“I think that most every business can get to five or ten million in revenue in some capacity, given enough time.”

“And then, when it's time for the business to be managed, you should probably sell it.”

“When people say, our business is like a family. We're like a big family here. I'm like, that's such bullshit. Cause there are things I would do for my kids and things I would put up with from my wife and my kids that if you worked for me, I would fire you tomo…”

“So the business was doing like fifty million of revenue when I graduated.”

“Whenever a business is getting to a point it's growing super fast, year over year, It becomes part of their DNA. So it would not slow down just because, you know, averages and things like that. The need to be a significant external event to slow them down. So …”

“And then, you know, the business has gone from zero to, you know, about five hundred million in ARR in the last seven years, building cameras, drones, and selling it to the government, which is like three strikes are out.”

“And now I see it just as a game. It's like playing poker. There's like hands you in, there's hands you lose. Sometimes you have, you're on a heater and you just like everything works. And sometimes no matter flawless execution, nothing works.”

“I think the technology people need to take time to understand how the real world works. And within that, how this technology can be, you know, subsumed. I think we tend to believe that our technology is, is the superset. Everyone else has to come and comply wi…”

“The thing about investors is they will change your business, whether you like it or not.”

“The difference between ten million and a hundred million a year business oftentimes is systems. So I think it typically comes down to hiring great people and creating great systems.”

“And I think if a business doesn't have any AI in the next 24 months, they will be dead. I think a hundred percent chance they will not make it if they don't have AI.”

“When you get to the point where you're competing with someone, you've really something up.”

“In business, reliability beats everything else. Speed without predictability is useless.”

“The spreadsheet is the worst invention ever created for business, right? If you read the book, The Terrorism of Excel or something like that, I put in that book. But, you know, we've created a tool that allows us to manipulate numbers on the page to get the an…”

“What you can do in the Valley, what you can do in business, you can't always do in the political realm. The political realm the government has functions that businesses don't have. Has many, many, many more veto groups, and many, many more constituencies that …”

“If you think about business not as a mechanism to make money, but as a sport you play, then it's like, oh, of course, just because you're great at tennis and you won a tournament doesn't mean you'll stop playing tennis. Why would you do that? That's your sport…”

“Do you know how many Americans own a business? What percentage? Three percent.”

“Business In general is the ultimate inner game and it's always forcing us to level up and get better and improve as our business grows.”

“Nowhere on the grading sheet does it say if they made it to the other side or not. He goes, we measure the characteristics of good leaders. And he said, we understand that sometimes good leaders suffer a mission failure and sometimes bad leaders enjoy mission …”

“The vast majority of people I saw fail throughout the military, and you could argue throughout business or whatever. They beat themselves far before anybody else did.”

“I hate this inclination that if you run a successful business, you owe people something. No, you're, you are providing something that people have voted on with their dollar as being good.”

“Even though you have the perfect landing page with the perfect copy for a very specific program in a trendy market, Going from there to having the business, having an app running is still a lot of work and yeah, Cursor can do it fast, but no, it's still a lot …”

“Losing money is not pleasant, but every business must at times lose money. Losing money is really serious if you do not know why you are losing, or if you do know why and cannot help yourself.”

“Decide not to use AI and watch where you are in a year. If you're in business, you're going to be behind. You'll never catch up.”

“There's no business so good that excess capital can't ruin it.”

“The wind, which again is your market, is the most important factor that determines success with your business, but you cannot control it.”

“88% of all people worth thirty million plus or above own a business”

“The more pain you can tolerate in business, the higher likelihood you'll succeed over time. It's just shots on goal”

“I think it is, it's very hard these days to make a profitable business. I think there's never been a harder time to make a profitable business. Never been an easier time to start a business.”

“Business these days, Deception by omission tends to be accepted. And it's out of defensiveness. People don't know how to tell the truth. And you get really caught up in short term.”

“The thing where the sports analogy in business often falls down is I find in business, the problems usually are really ambiguous and figuring out what the problem is, is actually a big part of the problem. And, you know, in sports, it's very simple. It's like,…”

“Because you're just giving back to society from which the business, forget about the individual part of it, that of course also, but when you're getting so much, ah, for business to play a role in impacting society positively is just part of a charter of busin…”

“So one crore is just, it's just not enough to start any business in today's context. I'd rather just keep it in the bank.”

“The hardest thing about running a business is trying to discern what's high leverage and what's just like menial tasks that feel good, but do nothing.”

“One of the things that I actually think is a not only a competence, but a moral requirement for American presidents is to say business is good.”

“Everything in business is just how fast can I make mistakes that won't kill me so that I can learn the next lesson and move forward in the game.”

“I think it meant you're, you come to that fork in the road of, if you're taking venture capital on, you're now deciding to build a different kind of business in a different way.”

“People always talk about, you know, hacks and quick wins, and how can you shorten the timeline? And ultimately, I think that leads to maybe a quick win here and there, but not longevity. And in business and in sport, The careers are built on longevity and that…”

“I think 90% of the time plus it's, it boils down To have one area of belief or maybe one thing that you just need to see happen in the business to believe that everything else will fall into place.”

“Business can adjust to good news. It can adjust to bad news. But uncertainty is a paralyzing thing for business.”

“To do anything interesting in life, whether it's business or whatever, It involves confrontation, and it involves tension a lot of times. That is such an uncomfortable feeling, but it's sort of like working out, where it's like, you've got to do that to make…”

“Intellectuals are the ones that don't like business, and intellectuals have never really liked business. I'm not saying all intellectuals, just as a general rule, as Deidre McCloskey calls it, the clerisy. Has always been skeptical about business, and has alwa…”

“If you're trying to sell to your friends and family, that's the hardest way to build a business. Like you really have to reach out to people who actually want the stuff that you need.”

“You can have product market fit with six customers, and next year it's seven customers, and you don't have a business.”

“As soon as you turn it into a business, as soon as the financials bleed in, it starts to become a little bit, it sullies it a little bit.”

“Success lies not in the elimination of problems, but in the art of creative, profitable problem solving. The best companies are those that distinguish themselves by solving problems most effectively.”

“What I hear from CEOs, I think privately they're getting really tired of the oxymoronic world they live in where the Edelman trust barometer will say business is the only institution that still has any trust. And yet you have politicians in both parties just b…”

“Educational opportunities for more people, housing for more people, healthcare for more people, that's going to be solved through innovation and technology and business, right?”

“The quality of the business is based on the quality of the founder, the talent, the founder is able to recruit to their mission and the market that they target at the commencement of a campaign.”

“No one should believe more in your business than you do. If this is not the case, you are in the wrong business.”

“Accounting isn't a numbers game. It's a language. It's like learning a dialect of Chinese. It's like learning Spanish. It's like learning French learn. It is the language of business.”

“Having this ability to ask is the reason so many immigrants or children of immigrants fare well in business.”

“When you were getting sued, the best advice that I ever received from anybody was you can't be emotional about it. Like you can be angry about it, but you have to swallow the anger and do what's right by the business. Always what's right by the business. Anybo…”

“Even it's so hard to build a truly great business, and yet more likely than not, your truly great business is not going to be destroyed by competition. It's going to be destroyed by you.”

“Copycats are a nuisance, not killers. They are usually mosquitoes Not sharks.”

“It's easy to start as an entrepreneur. And your business, you serve the business, right? Cause that's what happens when you're trying to get off the ground. And it's easy to forget as the business grows that ultimately the business needs to switch to serving y…”

“The thing that matters most in business is not how well I run a business. It is what game am I playing? Like, I would much rather play a really good game and be in a super good business and do that not very good than to be the best at a really hard business be…”

“In business, it's more like being a professional sports franchise, right? You're assembling the best players and you know, we may be friends, but we don't have to be friends because we're not coming together on the basis of friendship. We're coming together on…”