Ken Robinson Quotes

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become efficient, you don't run a business well, and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington.

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

Tactical Work is the work you do every day in your business to generate income, along with all of the operational, financial, and management tasks that entails.

As the CEO, I have to take care of the short term, mid term and the long term.

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.

Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.

The chief executive officer is also the chief sales officer. He or she is responsible for the success of the company and making a profit. The closer the CEO is to the everyday selling process, bringing in business, the more successful the company will become.

Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.

A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.

I am a very hands-on person, and I like to be involved in driving my business.

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

In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.

I've got to let the people who are in the business run the business. I can help them think through their decisions about products, about partners, about hiring. But in the end, the decisions are theirs, and so is the responsibility.

I think my gift lies in being a startup entrepreneur and creating environments and experiences.

There is a common and persistent belief out there that entrepreneurship is about creativity - that it's about having a great idea. But it's not, really. Entrepreneurship isn't about creativity. It's about organization-building - which, in turn, is about people.

I think if you want to be a successful president or a manager of a team, you need to understand what the business is all about because you have to deal with the business side of the game to be able to do what you need to do.

I think you need a really strong businessperson running the state, a person who's used to turning negatives into positives, which is what happens in business.

I have always been a business person.

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

You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.

I've always had an interest in business, and my interest in business has really expanded over the years.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

If you're going to be successful, you better have a goal, you better find really good people, better understand where all the money's coming from. And you better measure the living daylights out of it.