Quotes About Strategy

The intelligent investor shouldn't ignore Mr. Market entirely. Instead, you should do business with him- but only to the extent that it serves your interests.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business.

And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you're consistent, you're vulnerable to attack. Yes, it's a paradox. Now deal with it!

It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running; if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business side.

John Maynard Keynes essentially said, don't try and figure out what the market is doing. Figure out a business you understand, and concentrate.

Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

In this business, you find the enemy, then go after and destroy him. Everything else is rubbish!

In business, competition is never as healthy as total domination.

Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear view mirror.

Picasso obviously viewed his art as a business, which it was. I view my business as an art, which it is.

Obvious prospects for physical growth in a business do not translate into obvious profits for investors.

When we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.

I hate entrepreneurs with beautiful business plans.

Football is business and business is business.

The basic definition of the business and of its purpose and mission have to be translated into objectives.

You must take risks, both with your own money or with borrowed money. Risk taking is essential to business growth.

Shark Tales: How I turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business.

Buy a business, don't rent stocks.

Essentials of how to do a startup do not include writing a business plan

I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?

As an investor, what we're not looking for is 'oh this is a cool app,' it's 'is this something that can become a big business?' You need to find those that can become real businesses.