Quotes About Strategy

My pipe business I created from scratch; my media assets and bank I bought from the secondary market.

I have this saying. Quality is the best business plan. I believe so strongly in that.

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.

I generally disagree with most of the very high margin opportunities. Why? Because it's a business strategy tradeoff: the lower the margin you take, the faster you grow.

The common mistake that business people make is they're going to get drive-by business...Only gas stations are helped

Benevolence today has become altogether too huge an undertaking to be conducted otherwise than on business lines.

Being properly prepared is one of the biggest assets in business and in athletic competition.

People must be realistic when evaluating their business.

You'd better have the technology knowledge. I really urge you not to think you can start a whole company and business with just ideas on paper, because you'll end up owning so few of those ideas.

I used to think business was 50 percent having the right people. Now I think it's 80 percent.

I don't think you should ever start a business and move in a direction where you can't see it becoming a business.

Direct to consumer really gives you control of your business completely.

The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.

Me trying to make a business around Linux would have been a total disaster.

I knew I needed a partner. I needed someone who could focus on and spearhead the business side of things, and [Neal Dodson] was great at that. That's how it started.

I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out.

Dispatch is the soul of business, and nothing contributes more to dispatch than method.

Professional sports is a business.

There is no perfect mathematical formula for pricing a business.

You can't run a business based on sympathies; otherwise our business would be hampered.

What do you want your business to do? Make money, of course. To pay for people and supplies, to be able to grow.

In business, staying focused requires that you turn most opportunities down.

The real hope of the world lies in putting as painstaking thought into the business of mating as we do into other big businesses.

Know your stuff. Have an angle. Know how to grow business, how to develop products, have patents and an undeveloped market that could be huge.