Kiana Tom Quotes

As I've said, in 2007, we're free to go and we'll just have to do what's best for the business.

When you're talking about capital and financial things, which I certainly pay a lot of attention to, I base those decisions on one question that I typically ask myself, which is 'Does it help us to build a better company?'

I like being part of a big company's executive team. It's fun to stretch other parts of my brain, considering questions like, 'How should we think of acquisitions?' I get to be privy to things that would never come up at a small company.

You always learn lessons in business.

There is a time for weighing evidence and a time for acting. And if there's one thing I've learned throughout my work in finance, government, and conservation, it is to act before problems become too big to manage.

Businesses make decisions based on what they are seeing in their order books.

Regret is pointless. I never do anything without first deciding to do it based on facts and feelings, and if it doesn't work out how I hoped, oh well - there's another notch on my experience belt.

When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.

You learn every single day when you're running a company. You learn as you go.

When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.

When I first got into business, I made a lot of bad decisions.

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm.

People must be realistic when evaluating their business.

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

I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest to me.

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

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.

As a small business owner, you may not have the luxury to throw good money after bad, but if you can ascertain the 'why' of the failure, you can draw some significance from it and then turn it into something that clients will buy.

The goal isn't just to make transactions: it's to make better decisions in the way you run your business. If that's not at the top of every executive's priorities, then they shouldn't be an executive.

I've made a lot of dumb mistakes, but I don't regret them at all.

As a whole, when it comes to business in general, whether it's buying a building or contract negotiations or whatever it is, you have to take emotions out of it. That's what people forget.

As a businessman, I know that businesses need certainty.

You can't make good decisions without knowing the business.

In any business, you get your numbers together before you go out and do the work.