Pyotr Aven Quotes

Businesswise, everything's been good.

Set your business plan to win; raise the bar or you're not going to be prepared. You need to think that what you're doing will make you $100 million.

If a company is profitable, the founder is in control. If it's not, investors are in control.

We have never seen a sport as a business, and we have this great passion for football. QPR are not a trophy asset. If we had wanted a trophy asset, there were more glamorous clubs we could have bought.

This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely.

Business is Business.

I truly believe that the combination of a strong top line together with a strong bottom line is what makes for a sustainable business.

The swamp is a business model. It's a successful business model.

We really must recover our financial performance and take Nintendo back into the position in the marketplace where it is well appreciated.

We're not really in the business to sell ourselves. We want to sell what we work on.

If you run a business, and I see F1 as a business, if you have to go back every five weeks saying 'oh, I need another two million', it gets old pretty quick. Then the trust is lost.

I've built my business around the No. 7.

Before you start a business, careful planning is in order to obtain to where you ought to be. The biggest part is to ensure that, once you might have created your own plan, that you simply take motion. Without motion, you are unable to succeed.

By any measure, NBC is a corporation.

We are not going to compete for programs where we do not believe we can get a fair and sufficient return.

Well, as we built the business in the 1990's, as I said, I enjoyed that.

I think it's natural for any manager to want to grow his business. The question is at what rate, and in what direction, and in what format?

The best companies are the ones that offer their products for free.

And so if your competitors aren't growing, if there isn't a competitive reason to grow, and you want focus and discipline to add customers to existing stores, you adjust your strategy.

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

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Business 2.0 was hugely profitable last year, and will be profitable this year.

We don't go into a market without a chance of a 40 percent share and sustainable differentiation. We wouldn't get into wiring oil rigs if we didn't believe we could get 40 percent.

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

If you are planning to start a business, and if you want that business to have a hope of succeeding, be sure you are approaching your venture from a true Entrepreneurial Perspective.