Business Strategy Quotes

"One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes." "Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming." "Whatever business you are in, every company can shoot for the start in their own way." "My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around." "If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away." "Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line." "We, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market." "A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts." "Entrepreneurial business favors the open mind. It favors people whose optimism drives them to prepare for many possible futures, pretty much purely for the joy of doing so." "Building a business is not rocket science, it’s about having a great idea and seeing it through with integrity." "In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone." "Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other." "The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency." "Companies are rarely criticized for the things that they failed to try. But they are, many times, criticized for things they tried and failed at." "There are many ways to center a business. You can be competitor focused, you can be product focused, you can be technology focused, you can be business model focused, and there are more. But in my view, obsessive customer focus is by far the most protectiv" "Great innovations, large and small, are happening everyday [at Amazon] on behalf of customers." "One advantage — perhaps a somewhat subtle one — of a customer-driven focus is that it aids a certain type of proactivity. When we're at our best, we don't wait for external pressures. We are internally driven to improve our services, adding benefits and fe" "We don't focus on the optics of the next quarter; we focus on what is going to be good for customers." "The balance of power is shifting toward consumers and away from companies… The right way to respond to this if you are a company is to put the vast majority of your energy, attention and dollars into building a great product or service and put a smaller am" "The best customer service is if the customer doesn’t need to call you, doesn’t need to talk to you. It just works."