Peter Senge Quotes

You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.

I have a business to run and stockholders to think about.

What I learned from Rockefeller that's off-the-hook important is: You need to know exactly where you stand in a business at all times. Measure everything, because everything that is measured and watched improves.

When I first came into baseball, people didn't want to hear that a team was a business. But it is. And the better the business is run, the healthier the team on the field is going to be.

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

If we take care of the business and keep our eye on the goal line, the stock price will take care of itself.

About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.

I'm a hard-nosed businessman, that if a company is paying its way, increasing profits for thirty-odd consecutive years, you don't put it into receivership.

Business 2.0 was hugely profitable last year, and will be profitable this year.

No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized.

If you don't operate it as a business, you aren't going to be around very long.

You can't run a €10 million business the way you run a €1 million business.

If you run a business, if you are responsible for a lot of people, you come to grips with the reality that you have to have discipline. You have to protect the enterprise in order to take care of the employees. So, therefore, you can't be wasteful. You can't squander things, or you jeopardize other people.

Some entrepreneurs talk of a high burn rate, high advertising rate, and so on, with no outcome, so it doesn't impress me. But an entrepreneur who has that kind of a feeling of responsibility towards his investors is somebody who will have all my support.

One capability every business is expected to have is the capability to make money. It requires a certain kind of discipline, a certain kind of mindset.

I have long believed the corporate world is plagued by poor capital allocation decisions.

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

Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.

Just like a script, you need to keep a business plan to yourself.

Some of the analysts were saying, Now you're a cash cow, there's no growth at all, pay it all out in dividends, give me it all, you can't invest wisely.

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

I definitely see a correlation between how many things a company gets right and how fast a company grows.

I have almost no interest in quarterly reports. Running a business or investing in a business based on quarterly earnings doesn't make any sense at all to me.