You may grow very quickly the first two years and then watch the business decline, unless you really start selling product at any price range with various degrees of quality.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in such a hurry to grow your brand. Make sure that you and the market can sustain any bumps that may occur down the road.
You can't go into business thinking that success will come to you in just one or two years.
Spend the first six to 12 months building a great product or service that people love, rather than chasing investors. When the time comes to engage investors, you will be meeting them from a position of strength. This makes all the difference.
We are really very lucky to have so many fantastic brands. But to grow them we should not be too much in a hurry. They are growing fast, but they have to grow accordingly to the market and to the capacity we have to deliver good products.
We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.
Many newly public companies are able to post a year or two of strong sales growth off a small base, but their growth almost always slows over time, thanks to what investment professionals call 'the law of large numbers.'
There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.
I believe that every business and company takes two years to establish.
You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow.