Top 1200 Business Strategy Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

In my world, historical revenue is the least interesting thing to consider in an acquisition strategy.

Obama doesn't know how to invent the iPhone; he can't start a successful business. He's never really worked in a business except for the briefest of times.

As business moves forward, you realize that God has his hand on the whole business and that he brought people to you who are like-minded. It starts with faith.

When you grow a business, it belongs to a lot of other people besides you. As much as you want to control it, the minute you go public, it becomes a business . . .

We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things.

My wife and I set up the business, we were always very open about it and had a business author's name as many authors do.

The idea was not to make a huge business, because the bigger you get, the more restraints I thought I might get. Number one was to do what I set out to do: make new and interesting things within the size of the business that is possible to do without restraints. The second goal was to do the business in order to achieve the first goal. That's what many people don't understand.

Most people who get into the business are social animals by nature, but do they have the financial abilities to manage a business? A great bar owner has both.

My shopping strategy is try out the clothes you like before you buy them.

They [terrorists] have declared war on us and we need to have a serious strategy to destroy ISIS.

There's only one racing strategy that matters.It's the one I run by: Get in the lead and don't let anyone pass you.

Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.

My putting strategy is simple: If you're not making putts, don't be afraid to change your technique.

I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.

never adopt a strategy that you would not want your opponents to use against you

For Central Virginia small business owners, their business is more than a building, a sign out front, or an income - it's their lifelong dream.

Whether that's in communications or marketing or strategy, you need people to come in with a fresh perspective.

I think Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are the cornerstones of any social media strategy.

Conservative journalists don't just have the inside track on Republican strategy - they help devise it.

Business, properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed the party of business.

People do not look at the music business as an entrepreneur business at all times, but everything in this business is entrepreneurship. It's one thing to have the money and not have the knowledge. A lot of times people have great ideas, but don't have a plan. The whole thing about being an entrepreneur is you have to have a plan.

Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.

The venture business is a bit of an apprenticeship business, so the firm I worked for didn't let me make an investment until I was 30. That was probably a very smart thing.

University is sheltered from the business world and they think they should not have any connection with the businesses because maybe the business is dirty or not very good.

I believe Business Objects is on the cusp of becoming a multi-billion-dollar sales company. There is tremendous growth potential for business intelligence.

In business, you don't necessarily need heart, whereas here, in government, almost everything affects people. So if you're talking about health care - you have health care in business but you're trying to just negotiate a good price on health care, et cetera, et cetera. You're providing health. Here, everything, pretty much everything you do in government, involves heart, whereas in business, most things don't involve heart. In fact, in business you're actually better off without it.

I never had a business plan. I did, actually - I'm lying. My business plan was to get lucky, and I did; that was great. And then my second business plan was to get lucky again, and there, I faltered.

I think probably my main advice to new artists is if you want to be in the music business, you need to be dang serious about it because it's a rough business.

Like most business people, I want every aspect of my business to be perfect. I know that this goal is unachievable, but it is nevertheless what I strive to achieve .

Investing in early childhood nutrition is a surefire strategy. The returns are incredibly high.

The denigration of business hurts America, because the secret sauce for our economy is confidence. I don't want to hear that nonsense that all business is bad.

'Business,' properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed 'the party of business.'

Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.

I can give you my personal opinion: love the music, hate the business. It's a screwball business, and there are a lot of players who will straight-up lie to you.

The fact that my father set out on his own to build Hyatt - a business the family was not in and a business he was learning about as he was building it - is instructive.

We see the Super Hornet as an opportunity... to tie directly into the 'Make in India' strategy.

Oliver Stone's strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive.

Chess and boxing have a lot in common, as both sports rely on the right strategy.

Marketing strategy is a series of integrated actions leading to a sustainable competitive advantage.

Democratic socialism is not only a poor electoral strategy - it's a disastrous governing model.

By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.

Without a goal [maneuvering is] aimless. You might be a master tactician, but you'll have no sense of strategy.

My investment strategy, which is to focus on sectors that are a national priority for India, hasn't changed.

An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if he owned all of that business.

An all-out trade war with China would be damaging to Disney's business and to business in general. It's something I think we have to be very careful about.

Almost every business is regulated by the state. So if you're going to say, 'If you own any business, you shouldn't run for public office,' I don't think that's what we want.

My message to business leaders is clear: If you are looking to expand your business and boost the bottom line, there is no better place than Utah to do it.

As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.

Let's execute along this strategy, but know that we'll probably get some of this wrong, so be open to changing it.

No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.

I'm not sure we have the right strategy in Afghanistan. Let me think this over for a few months.

A global brand building strategy is, in reality, a local plan for every market.

You, (my meat-eating friends), put your health at risk – that’s your business. But animal-based diets put the land, the water, the air, a society’s collective health, and even our collective pharmaceutical resources at risk. That’s my business. That’s everyone’s business.

I'm a committed Christian. I worship in my own way. That's my business. That's not the business of the pharisees who are going to preach to me about what I do and then do something else.

The problem with a cost reduction strategy is that there is a finite limit.You can only get to zero.

I am personally interested in more than just business schools. However, life has been good to me, and it's been good to me through a business career. I think the chance to help strengthen the foundation of young people going into business, as I did, just appeals to me.

I picked up business skills along the way, but there are things you learn at school like speaking the language of business so you can speak with CEOs.

At the European table, we are systematically the most determined to advance a strategy of increased cooperation.

I have found, whether you have a tiny business or a big business, if you don't jump on something right away, it's like a bird flying by-it flies off.

Securing the Republican nomination is an intricate series of steps that requires a comprehensive strategy.