Not everyone is born to run a $4 billion company. There is no magic formula. I've learned, and I've grown by learning. That's why I've enjoyed being in business so much: It's stretched me.
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What I've learned in my career is that it takes the same amount of effort to build a $10bn company as it does a $1bn company; you as the entrepreneur are going to put your entire life, your entire effort into it.
And our size: The company this year is going to be close to $50 billion, so if that's the case and you can continue to grow that fast, I would rather put my energies to solving customer problems and growing our business than worrying about integrating and laying people off.
You have to grow! You grow as a person, and then you will grow in business.
You grow up a lot in terms of your understanding of the industry and how to deal with the corporate things.
I have started many companies now worth more than $100 million. So I know a little about business.
Money is a very fundamental ingredient in anyone starting up a new business.
You don't know this when you're young, but over time, you see that great companies are usually built at a special point in time.
In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defined as 'don't make a mistake.' And you get to be the C.E.O. by outlasting everybody else, then you're there for five or six years, and you want to get your bonus on the way out.
There's smarter people than me. But you cannot have any one guy running 18 billion-dollar businesses. It just doesn't make sense to me. I've met some extraordinary leaders in my time. They struggle with running one billion-dollar business.
You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.
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