New Ventures Quotes

• If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.

  Mario Andretti

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Driving With Mario Andretti, Who at 76, Still Refuses to Slow Down". Interview with Sam Smith, www.roadandtrack.com. June 24, 2016.

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• That's the beauty of starting lines: Until you begin a new venture, you never know what awaits you.

  Amby Burfoot

  Running, Lines, Starting

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• When contemplating the pursuit of a dream or the start of a new venture, too many people are hesitant to begin because they can't comprehend the entire journey. If that's where you find yourself right now, don't expect to understand what it takes to get to the top. Just take the next step. There's no shame in starting small; in fact, if you don't start small, you'll probably never start at all.

  John C. Maxwell

  Dream, Journey, People

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• The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind.

  Charles Kettering

  Discovery, Mind, Progress

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• In my experience, there's only one thing that will always steer you toward success: That's to have a vision and to stick with it... Once I have a vision for a new venture, I'm going to ride that vision until the wheels come off.

  Russell Simmons

  Character, Positivity, Vision

  Russell Simmons, Chris Morrow (2007). “Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success”, p.20, Penguin

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• before I embark on any new venture, I ask myself: will the joy of doing this make me lose track of any concern for time? If the answer is yes, I proceed!

  Alice Walker

  Passion, Track, Joy

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way”, p.145, New Press, The

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• Not to innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing organizations. Not to know how to manage is the single largest reason for the failure of new ventures.

  Peter Drucker

  Organization, Reason, Decline

  Peter F. Drucker (2014). “The Peter Drucker Collection on Managing in Turbulent Times: Management: Revised Edition, Management Challenges for the 21st Century, Managing in Turbulent Times, and The Practice of Management”, p.40, Harper Collins

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• I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence. Intuition, suspicion, or confidence in new ventures; there is a strange strain within me when advantage is not taken of some situation, the immediacy of recognition of the rightness or wrongness of a mood, a response, a decision - they are so often valid that I am increasingly convinced that we have yet to grasp the reality of existence.

  Ansel Adams

  Fall, Taken, Past

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• I always tell other people to protect against the downside, and not risk roughing on new ventures, but I never stuck to that rule myself.

  Richard Branson

  People, Risk, Stuck

  "Richard Branson on Being Richard Branson". Interview with Rod Kurtz, www.entrepreneur.com. December 17, 2012.

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• The more successful the unit, the more difficult it is to make sure that the large company doesn't put the same expectations on it as it does for the rest of the company. When it's a new venture, whether it's outside or inside the business, it's a child. And you don't put a 40-pound pack on a 6-year-old's back when you take her hiking.

  Peter Drucker

  Children, Successful, Years

  Source: www.inc.com

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• Every time I go into a new venture, I find a "rabbi" who has the business acumen to help me understand the mechanics of that industry, the costs involved in developing a product, and what you need to do in order to make a profit.

  Russell Simmons

  Order, Growth, Needs

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• When we start a new venture, we base it on hard research and analysis. Typically, we review the industry and put ourselves in our customer's shoes to see what we could do better.

  Richard Branson

  Business, Shoes, Analysis

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• When you come across real talent, it is sometimes worth allowing them to create the structure in which they choose to labor. In nine cases out of ten, by inviting them to take responsibility and control for a new venture, you will motivate them to do great things.

  Felix Dennis

  Real, Responsibility, Nine

  Felix Dennis (2008). “How to Get Rich: One of the World's Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets”, p.98, Penguin

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• Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected to run it. Control is mandatory.

  Felix Dennis

  Running, Entrepreneur, Rich

  Felix Dennis (2011). “The Narrow Road: A Brief Guide to the Getting of Money”, p.31, Penguin

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• With my new venture, Club Mom, we want to empower moms to feel their value and also build their collective power to make their lives better and easier. We want to bring them together as a community to share experiences and information.

  Andrew Shue

  Mom, Empowering, Community

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• The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital from static to more dynamic situations, the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth of the economy.

  John F. Kennedy

  Decision, Risk, Growth

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, John F. Kennedy, 1963".

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• My website inspired me to create my book club and provides me with a creative outlet where I can write about things that interest me. It's a platform where I can present ideas or new ventures and get feedback straight from the people who mean the most to me.

  Lauren Conrad

  Book, Mean, Writing

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• Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.

  Anita Brookner

  Unfinished Business, Games, Balls

  Anita Brookner (1989). “Lewis Percy”

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• My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

  Richard Branson

  Philosophy, Marketing, Sitting

  The Sunday Mirror Interview, January 16, 2000.

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• The healthier a new venture and the faster it grows, the more financial feeding it requires.

  Peter Drucker

  Financial, Feeding, Faster

  Peter Drucker (2014). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.238, Routledge

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