Brad Jacobs Quotes

“Problems are an asset—not something to avoid but something to run toward.”

“If I had tried to do everything I wanted to, I never would have accomplished anything big. Narrow your focus to your most important dreams and tune out everything else.”

“Look, if you want to make money in the business world, you need to get used to problems, because that's what business is. It's actually about finding problems, embracing and even enjoying them—because each problem is an opportunity to remove an obstacle and get closer to success.”

“United Waste taught me that I love working with outrageously talented people to deliver outsized returns for shareholders in public stock markets.”

“If you want to make money in the business world, you need to get used to problems, because that's what business is. It's actually about finding problems, embracing and even enjoying them.”

“The goal is to get to $50 billion in revenue. That's the next mountain top we're going to climb. We'll climb another mountain top after that, but the first top is $50 billion.”

“In a word, scalability. So the only way I know to create huge value is to create a company that five and ten years after you started is much, much larger.”

“I've made every mistake in the book and I wrote about it in my book. I've made every mistake in the book. Fortunately, I learned from those mistakes and emerged stronger from that.”

“I never buy a company if I don't really like the seller because I've seen a correlation between how I feel about that seller and how that deal turns out one, two, three years later.”

“When people sell a business, particularly if they've spent decades building it up... they get really nervous and they get very anxious and they're very stressed out.”

“I want, in my company, people who are absolutely motivated by money; who are raw capitalists; people who want to make money for themselves and their families.”