Trevor Birch

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

Efficient industry is the sole key to prosperity.

I have no Napoleonic dream. I’m just hard working and pragmatic.

I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It’s done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

You can’t do this! We have an arrangement! We have a contract!

Depressions aren’t acts of God; like wars, they are the work of a small group of men who profit by them.

The five separate fingers are five independent units. Close them and the fist multiplies strength. This is organization.

Selling is our No. 1 job. Never get away from selling a lot of merchandise personally. The more you sell the more you learn.

Entrepreneurs are always taking feedback, especially from their customers, bankers, workers, and sales force. Without straightforward feedback, entrepreneurs cannot make sound decisions.

It is always the start that requires the greatest effort.

A monopoly of jobs in this country is just as bad as a monopoly of bread!

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There’s a lot of that in Silicon Valley.