Francesco Guicciardini Quotes

Just like a script, you need to keep a business plan to yourself.

All entrepreneurs make decisions. Some will go right, and some will not go that right.

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

The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music.

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.

When companies are successful or not successful, they almost immediately jump to the wrong conclusions about how they got there or why they got there.

I've really thought a lot about why other companies fail or succeed. I had to be a student of failure and find out why things went off the rails. I did that at a fairly deep level, and it's still something I do.

I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

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

Companies that banked their future on broadband - most of them are not very successful.

I have almost no interest in quarterly reports. Running a business or investing in a business based on quarterly earnings doesn't make any sense at all to me.

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

I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.

It's important to have a really clear strategy so when you are in business, you only have to make micro-strategy changes.

A big company is like trying to steer a luxury liner.

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

What an entrepreneur does is to build for the long run. If the market is great, you get all of the resources you can. You build to it. But a good entrepreneur is always prepared to throttle back, put on the brakes, and if the world changes, adapt to the world.

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

This is a business that is much easier planned than executed.

Management of many is the same as management of few. It is a matter of organization.

Don’t ignore planning for unlikely events. Over long periods of time the highly improbable gets more probable to occur at least once.

The hype that accompanied the promotion of successive strategic fashions exaggerated the importance of the enlightened manager and played down the importance of chance and circumstance in explaining success.

What I like to say when you get into something that feels like a bubble or, at least, feels irrational is that you still want to build a company that has a strong discipline, business-building culture.

The needs of the business sector must be understood.

Mitt Romney understands free enterprise, he has worked in it. He has seen companies succeed and he has seen them fail, too. He knows what people think about when they invest their money.