Andrew Tan Quotes

Businessmen must move with the times...the correlation between knowledge and business as the key to success is closer than ever.

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.

The external world is changing drastically, and enterprises and products will have a short lifecycle if they don't change. So we have to react to market trends. Nothing lasts forever in today's world.

You pick what your customers want, not what your entrenched business model may require you to do.

Certainly in business terms, considering how thriving the market is. Understanding what people want is essential. We have a team on the ground whose job it is to keep tabs on what's good, whether it's a tapas bar in Barcelona, or an amazing fish and chip shop in Yorkshire.

Companies have got to learn to eat change for breakfast.

Downsizing trends and the changing global market require people to reinvent themselves and think like entrepreneurs.

The only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out.

Strategic quitting is the secret of successful organizations

You've got to keep reinventing. You'll have new competitors. You'll have new customers all around you.

In any business, you have to evolve.

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.

Audiences are shifting. Platforms are shifting. Ages are shifting. It's better to be in charge of change than to have to react to change.

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

In my opinion, right now there's way too much hype on the technologies and not enough attention to the real businesses behind them.

Whatever business you're in - it doesn't matter - it's going to commoditize over time. It's going to devalue. You've got to keep moving it to a higher value.

... whatever business you're in, it doesn't matter, it's going to commoditize over time, it's going to devalue, you've got to keep moving it to a higher value. Keep going to a higher value in whatever it is that you do and force yourself and force the organization to always do it ahead of time

It's difficult sometimes to, in effect, let go of how you're used to doing things and give the brand room to be reinvented.

Moving with the times is an important idea for strategy today.

Evolving our culture to operate and think differently is no small task. We are challenging our employees to be the best of both small and big companies - they should operate with the soul and spirit of a startup, while leveraging the scale, resources and capabilities of Campbell - with the goal of ultimately becoming the biggest small company.

I think I've changed my business strategy every year since 2003. You have to be watching the horizon constantly. The rug has been pulled out from under our feet so many times.

When you open any kind of food service establishment, you do all this planning, but it's not until you've opened the door and people are inside that you learn what people want you to be to them.

Being right is important. Too many great teams march off saying, 'If we build it, they will come,' and then never are able to change the idea towards something that people really want.