Anne M. Mulcahy Quotes

My job was to turn the company around and to give Time Warner a profitable Web business to spin off and a profitable access business that still throws off a tremendous amount of cash. I can check both of those boxes. I am done, and I feel good about what we've accomplished.

I'm privileged and grateful to lead The Walt Disney Company and our talented, dedicated team at this exciting time.

I am who I am, and I'm focused on that, and being a great CEO of Apple.

People need patience. It takes time to build a brand.

Steve Jobs came back to Apple in 1997 - the iPod came out 4 years later. 3 years after that is the first time his market cap grew. It took 7 years.

By the time I got to be director of product management at Thomas-Conrad, I was in a better negotiating position, as I had accumulated more accomplishments and gained a reputation for having a great work ethic.

Execution without a long term strategy leads nowhere. Likewise a long term strategy without execution leads nowhere.

You need a commitment which is long term and a commitment to leadership, because that's the only way you build excellence.

To arrive and try to fight for the Champions League, to try to fight to be the best in the world, you need time.

Most managers are just trying to survive. That's why a lot of smarter guys have been let go from Fortune 500 companies: because they came up with new ideas that no one would allow them to try.

With time and thought, one can do a good job.

Every business tries to turn this year's success into next year's greater success. It's hard for me to see why Microsoft is sinful to do this. If it's a sin, then I hope all of Berkshire Hathaway's subsidiaries are sinners. Someone whose salary is paid by U.S.taxpayers is happy to dramatically weaken the one place where we're winning big?!

Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.

Having a great idea is simply not enough. The eventual goal is vastly more important than any idea. It is how ideas are implemented that counts in the long run

Having just the vision's no solution, everything depends on execution

As much time as you put into it, that's what your achievements are going to be when you come out of it.

Success is never accidental.

Whether it's marriage of business, patience is the first rule of success.

I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent

Before success comes patience... when we add to our accomplishments the element of hard work over a long period of time, we'll place a far greater value on the outcome. When we are patient, we'll have a greater appreciation of our success.

If I've learned nothing else, it's that time and practice equal achievement.

I built a phenomenal company; if we could run America the way I ran my company, we'd be proud of it.

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work

The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.

Focus alone is not enough; putting in the time to commit is also crucial to achieve success.