Gordon Ramsay Quotes

I really do have rules for running and managing a business that have never been formalized before.

I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.

I was always fascinated by the decision-making process and the managerial process and just business in general.

There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.

Most regular, two-year MBA programs provide both experience and the capacity to link together the essential elements of management such as finance, marketing, organizational behavior, and operations.

I spent most of my career operating businesses and fixing businesses, not staring at a Bloomberg screen.

I learned a lot from Jack Welch about how to run a business.

Your first job, as an owner and an entrepreneur, has to be to understand how the business is going to actually work.

In large companies, the CEO is very distant from operations.

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it.

I didn't know how to run a business. I was a terrible gallerist, the worst in history, possibly.

I am also involved with all the acquisitions and overall strategy. Now it's true, I don't run operations. But I've never really run operations. I've never had the endurance to run sales. The whole idea of selling to the customer just isn't my personality. I'm an engineer, tell me why something isn't working or is and I am curious.

Business logic and musical logic are utterly incompatible.

I made so many mistakes in running the company so far, basically any mistake you can think of I probably made. I think, if anything, the Facebook story is a great example of how if you're building a product that people love you can make a lot of mistakes

If I'm setting up a new business I'll spend three or four months learning everything there is about that business, everything there is about that subject and then I will find good people to run it on a day-to-day basis, but whilst they're running it at least I know what they're talking about when they come back to me.

To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics.

One of the best bits of advice I can give is, early on, when you're building a new business, try to find somebody to run it on a day-to-day basis to free yourself up to look at the bigger picture.

Now there are times when I have to make big decisions as I'm now running a company and that it's OK to go with being respected first.

Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear view mirror.

No CEO examining books today understands what the hell is going on.

Even though plans themselves are worthless, the exercise of planning is very valuable and totally missing in most startups today.

Business is business, no child's play.

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

If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth - and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago.

Business is what concerns us. If you care about something enough to do something about it, you're in business