Doug Ducey Quotes

When in Rome, I must do as the Romans do. When in America, make Bikram copyright and trademark.

Reverse innovation is an innovation that is first adopted in developing markets and flows uphill to mature markets. This concept directs forward-looking companies to look beyond industrialized nations to draw new ideas, products, and processes from emerging economies.

I am very passionate about this business, and I always have been.

I am not a politician. I'm an American businessman and entrepreneur that have built two businesses, and I try to play it straight with people.

When we were at MGM, we never did much about merchandise tie-ups There were too many executives and lawyers to go through.

If you're not in the business to improve society, you shouldn't be in business.

The real competitive advantage will come to countries and companies who differentiate their offerings through education, innovation, and productivity.

Nokia's industry-leading intellectual property has the potential to create significant value for our licensees and our shareholders.

There are millions of business ideas out there but only a tiny percentage of businesses succeed.

There are companies that are good at improving what they're already doing. There are companies that are good at extending what they're doing. And finally there are companies that are good at innovation. Every large company has to be able to do all three - improve, extend, and innovate - simultaneously.

Nine out of ten businesses fail; so I came up with a foolproof plan - create ten businesses.

I was never, ever interested in becoming a businessman or an entrepreneur. If I was a businessman, or saw myself as a businessman, I would have never gone into the airline business.

We believe there should be a huge area between everything you should do and everything you can do without getting into legal trouble. I don't think you should come anywhere near that line. We don't deserve much credit for this. It helps us make more money. I'd like to believe that we'd behave well even if it didn't work. But more often, we've made extra money from doing the right thing. Ben Franklin said I'm not moral because of it's the right thing to do - but because it's the best policy.

He [Steve Jobs] had come from the surplus electronics parts world.So he came from that world, and he said let's sell PC boards for $40. We'll build them for $20 and sell them for $40.

As far as business moguls, I'm always a fan of how Jay Z moves. He was just always very strategic ever since he came into the game.

I am very pleased with the progress of the new CBS Corporation. The Company's rapid pace of change and innovative approach to emerging business opportunities can be seen in the many strategic announcements we have made over these past few months. The more focused and more nimble organization we sought to create has become a reality and that aggressive spirit of excellence and innovation will continue to benefit shareholders for many years to come.

Only the general manager can mold the resources, processes, and values that affect innovation , into a coherent capability to develop and launch superior new products and services repeatedly.

I try to build on our management philosophy. I try to understand what the threats and opportunities are for us. Uh, I try to make sure that we're driving innovation and creative destruction hard enough so we're not blindsided, and that our attitude is to, in starting any initiative, any business, is to focus on how we can create value for others, rather than how we maximize profit, because you can make money focusing on, "How do I maximize profit?"

I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. I take half-matured schemes for mechanical development and make them practical. I am a sort of a middleman between the long-haired and impractical inventor and the hard-headed business man who measures all things in terms of dollars and cents. My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others.

I try to get people to see what I have. . . . When you run a computer company, you have to get people to buy into your dreams.

I was never that interested in business, to be honest. I do the minimal amount of business as possible because I'm not actually interested in it as a thing. But some people are interested in it, and there's nothing wrong with that.

Shareholder value is a result, not a strategy . . . Your main constituencies are your employees, your customers and your products.

Yeah, handsome, great big guy, seven feet tall! Name is Rick Miller - Portland, Oregon. And he started a business. Of course you know it was in basketball. But it wasn't in basketball! I mean, I figured he had to be in sport, but he wasn't in sport.

I have always believed that business should be a force for good.

Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.