Trip Hawkins Quotes

Softbank 2.0 means globalisation of Softbank.

I have had a lot of success in England, but I want to have even more.

The period from 2002 to 2007 was probably our best period. We created a strategy to build global scale, footprints in each of the geographies and dramatically built our international business.

The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.

One of Aspen's primary strategic intents is to further globalize its business, increase its representation across a number of additional territories, and provide support to its growing global presence with a differentiated pipeline.

Focus on building the best possible business. If you are great, people will notice and opportunities will appear.

I like that combination between creativity and the creative process and the organization needed to make a business like this successful worldwide.

My business has doubled in ways I couldn't have imagined.

My brother told me he was very proud of me, of the business I have built, and that gives me joy.

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

I will continue to focus on global strategy and to do everything I can to help Yahoo! realize its full potential and enhance its leading culture of technology and product excellence and innovation.

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

As long as we continue to execute, everything will work out for everybody at GoPro.

Oh, if people only knew how this business has grown.

If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company.

Canada is open for business.

In 1947 American corporations thought of themselves as national with offices abroad. Today, they see themselves as global corporations with headquarters in the United States.

Sometimes, for businesses, competition can be inconvenient, because competition means that the race is never over, the game is never won. No matter how well you were doing in the past, there's always someone who are out there wanting to take your place. So the temptation to avoid competition is powerful. It's rooted in motives as old as Adam and Eve: in greed for yet more money, in fear of losing your position in the market and all the benefits it brings.

In business, I believe that if you focus only on the journey, you'll miss the whole point of the enterprise. There has to be a goal, an end game of some kind; otherwise, you're just spinning your wheels. Yes, the journey is important, but the destination is important, too.

The only thing that kept us from going bigger worldwide was the language barrier. All the corn that we did on 'Hee Haw,' it was hard to translate into their slang.

When I took over Louis Vuitton, everyone said, 'It's already so big - what more can you do?' And since then, we've multiplied that success tenfold.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Asia has always been a really exciting part of the world for me, personally. And it actually was the first part of the world that bought my brand, strangely enough.

Wipro is one of the fastest growing companies regionally and globally, and I am personally very excited with our journey in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

As far as Ola is concerned, we are focused and determined to build a business that can sustain and be impactful.