Scott Weiss Quotes

I think the greatest CEOs in the United States, business, anyway, are the ones you don't hear too much about.

In business, there's a constant focus on developing strategies, reviewing executive performance against those strategies each year, engaging with opposing or different points of view, and having intellectual dialogue.

But maybe because the dot-com world gives people positions at a younger age, and many women are prominent in this business, it will help change the view about who can run big companies.

If we take care of the customers and associates and grow the business, Wall Street will be pleased.

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.

The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.

Being general manager is like being the de facto owner. It's like wearing the crown of 'Restaurant Man' without being 'Restaurant Man.' You're trying to run the business, but you're running the ranch without riding the big horse.

When in 1969 I became publisher of the 'Washington Post' as well as president of the company, my plate was fuller than ever. I had partly worked myself into the job but not, except for rare occasions, taken hold. I had acquired some sense of business but still relied on others more than most company presidents did.

The only thing I would say is, I think there's a lot of future value in Blackberry, but without experienced people who have run this type of business, and without a strategic plan, it would be really challenging.

A lot of what I do is running businesses rather than buying stocks. My worst decision is probably when I know I have the wrong chief executive running the business, and I keep on waiting to make the difficult decision of replacing him.

I wrote '#GIRLBOSS' while running a $100 million-plus revenue business.

Nowadays, business is all about productivity - and our folks produce.

Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

As the Executive Chairman of 'Breitbart News' with a long run in business and finance, I can tell you, it's hard to run a company that is infinitesimally smaller than Fox; it takes a steady and experienced hand.

When we look at really good high-performing companies abroad, they are always at the back of an extremely high-performing board, and that is something which is very lacking in this country.

For me, I think Bob Iger is one of the smartest men in the country.

You can be someone running...who is just a soaring leader of people. But if you don't have the finances down, you're going to have a problem.

If you talk to anybody who's been successful in business, they will tell you the thing that matters the most are people. And clearly, in this case, the quality of the people was not paid attention to. By the board and I don't know what they were doing. And I think there is a certain accountability by the board here.

All good management is the expression of one great idea

It may seem odd to talk about something as soft and fuzzy as "passion" as an integral part of a strategic framework. But throughout the good-to-great companies, passion became a key part of the Hedgehog Concept.

I've always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I'd read business journals and the business sections of newspapers.

Most US corporations today are over-managed and under-led. They need to develop their capacity to exercise leadership.

I will be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars, because I got the answers.

As far as business moguls, I'm always a fan of how Jay Z moves. He was just always very strategic ever since he came into the game.

The extraordinary business does not require good management.