Sanjay Kumar Quotes

Every leader needs to clearly explain the top three things the organization is working on. If you can't, then you're not leading well.

In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.

Our ultimate goal is to stay in business. We are not here with a specific plan. That's kind of how our entire career has evolved. We will figure things out as we go along.

Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.

You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.

Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true.

No matter what, the entrepreneur must strive to be above average and, at the same time, understand what is driving those averages they are seeking to beat. Take the time to understand and test the metrics you are using, and then you can not only set the average, you can exceed it.

A strong sense of purpose drives businesses to take the long view and invest for growth.

The marketplace is absolutely mercurial. But what I love about our company is that we create a vision, and then we go all in.

The teams and how we perform and how we deal with customers, how we invest in the things we do right now - that's what writes the story for GE.

I'm a very big believer that the primary focus for any organization at any point in time should always be smarter, better, faster.

With my business, the way you make big money is you find a great management team and a good concept, and you stick to it, and you add to it over time. In philanthropy, there was more this idea that once an idea was formulated, you moved along.

At a small company, so much of the trick is focus. Not only can you only do a finite number of things, but you have to do them in the right order.

A big part of my job is to accelerate our ability to bring innovative products to our customers more quickly.

Great companies have to manage the cadence of what they do.

Organizing has to be a 12-month endeavor.

In business, we use certain principles to measure performance, and I envision applying those principles in the public sector.

The results are one thing but it's important for me how we achieve the results.

We know Donald Trump wants to hit his goals ahead of time, and under budget.

If you give government five things to do, we might do two or three but if you give us three things to do, we'll do all three.

It is incredibly important to set goals for your business, as if you have no direction for your business, your online business will be a failure.

Many who know me or have worked for me are aware of my penchant for strategic planning. I consider it a critical component of the success of any organization and believe in the value of planning for a company's needs over multiple time horizons, as well as reviews against that plan at regular intervals.

You can get so focused on a strategy and making it work that you lose sight of your larger mission.

I want to find the right projects. I'm not going to take just anything.

As CEO of Cold Stone Creamery, we used a concept called 'search and reapply,' which meant that if we found better ways of doing something, then we would do it.