Margaret Heffernan Quotes

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

There are companies with management and companies with money. You can always find money. Management is the key to success in any business.

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

If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.

The main professional responsibility of a person in business is business.

I think that business book reporting, it's all Jim Collins, it's the story of victory; it's success bias over and over again.

In my own experience as a C.E.O., I would find myself laying awake at 3 A.M. asking questions about my business, and there weren't management books out there that could help me.

I brought one big question with me to Harvard. Why do smart companies fail?

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

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

The margin for making mistakes has gotten much smaller. In a commodity economy, it's hard to kill off your business. You still have the mine. You still have oil wells. You can always rebuild. In a knowledge economy, if you make a mistake, you're in trouble.

I wanted a CFO with public company experience; I needed an HR department, new office space, and a board which could help me grow the business. Insight, the private equity firm I chose, helped me with all that.

This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely.

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.

There's one thing I've learned about entrepreneurs' business plans. Every one is wrong.

Know the business, learn the business, own something.

I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less.

Business is Business.

The swamp is a business model. It's a successful business model.

We are going to continue to run a business, and we are going to continue to meet the supply and demand that's out there.

It is the performance of the business that matters. It is hard enough to figure out the future of the business. Do not try to figure out the future of the country or the world; focus on the business.

I'm running a business.

You're kind of taught that the role of a business person is the decision making.

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

All you can worry about as CEO is making sure your company continues to build great products, deliver the revenue, and keep your customers happy.