Canadian - Businessman | 1980 -
A lot of people have a great business idea; they just need a little push to make it a reality.
Tobias Lutke
BusinessGreatPeopleRealityPush
To me, a great company starts with a great product and ends with a great product.
GreatMeProductCompanyStarts
It is incredibly powerful if you solve the problem you actually have yourself. It's really tough to develop a good product when you don't have very close proximity to the people who actually use your product. The closest proximity you can have to those people is to be that person.
GoodYourselfPeopleToughProblem
I got my first computer at the age of 6. To me, it was magic. By the time I was 12, I wanted to know the secrets behind the wizardry, and that started my journey toward computer programming. This was the early 1990s, when computers weren't built for the mass market.
AgeJourneyTimeMeComputersMagic
It is my strong belief that computer literacy should be part of our educational system's core curriculum.
StrongBeliefSystemLiteracyCore
I care about working on interesting problems, and Shopify is this gift that keeps on giving for working on interesting problems with amazing people.
PeopleAmazingGiftProblemsCare
Given the success rate, if you want to get wealthy, entrepreneurship is a horrible way of doing it. There are significantly easier ways of doing it.
SuccessDoingYouWantWayHorrible
In my worldview, time is energy that you can invest in things, and money is energy that you can invest. Time has significantly more leverage than money in terms of how much energy you get out of time.
TimeMoneyEnergyYouMoreLeverage
We have a lot of really great companies in Canada, and I think there's always been this fear that 'great' in Canada doesn't mean great on a world stage. We need more self-confidence. We are building incredibly good businesses with incredibly good people, being loyal, dedicating themselves to solving important problems.
GoodFearGreatPeopleWorldThink
Our mantra has been, 'We will not buy a company unless we think the people that make up the company have a better job the day after the acquisition than before.'
DayJobPeopleThinkBetterWill
I am a worrier. I tend to do something about what I worry about.
I AmWorrySomethingAboutAmTend
We are reluctant to do these bigger acquisitions that are then integrated, especially if they are committed to a certain product that they want to build that we can't guarantee we will keep evolving.
WantProductBuildWillBiggerKeep
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Tobias Lutke quotes