Jon Oringer Quotes

Starting my own business was kind of a wakeup call in a number of different ways. I had to meet a payroll every week, and we had to satisfy customers, and we had competitors that we had to compete with in order to have those customers come into our stores, and we had to compete with other employers for our employees.

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

There is a healthy competition as there would be in any business. But we do not spend our days thinking about what Marvel is doing.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.

The challenge of any business owner is not only to keep the saw sharp, but also to know if you even have a need for such a tool.

The biggest challenge to thriving in the marketplace is identifying the strategic moves that will keep us ahead of the competition.

Because I didn't have much money, I bought a small shop that fit my budget. The previous six owners had closed their business in three years. The store had no people traffic and, because of that, I was able to focus on figuring out how to provide a better service to each and every one of the customers that did come through.

Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.

Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.

There's always something happening in the world that creates an opportunity to try to fix a business and build a business.

While it is often true that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, it seems like Yahoo's almost obsessive focus on Google is taking away from its other businesses.

People don't know how hard it is to have your own business.

Running a business anywhere isn't easy.

If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd, haven't you?

People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards.

This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely.

We can reorient our products and business strategy because we are an agile organisation.

In a period of economic downturn, the overwhelming instinct is to pare back, cut costs, and lay off. If you do that, do so with your strategy in mind. The worst mistake is to cut across the board. Instead, reconnect and recommit to a clear strategy that will distinguish yourself from others.

You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.

But you don't get into a business because of personal tastes.

I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.

The tools used by economists to analyze business firms are too abstract and speculative to offer any guidance to entrepreneurs and managers in their constant struggle to bring novel products to consumers at low cost.

The competition principle does not mean a competitive edge, comrades