Joel Salatin Quotes

Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.

A well-managed business will have a high return on invested capital. But that's a consequence. It's not a way to manage a business.

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.

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

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

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

If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I think the principles of creative leadership apply everywhere, whether it's an advertising company or whether you're running a hospital.

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.

About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.

Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.

The key, I think, from a business point of view, is to learn how to be efficient in making a record that's not too expensive, so that you're not going crazy spending tons of money making a product that might not ever return that money.

A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.

If you don't operate it as a business, you aren't going to be around very long.

You can't run a €10 million business the way you run a €1 million business.

I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less.

If you run a business, if you are responsible for a lot of people, you come to grips with the reality that you have to have discipline. You have to protect the enterprise in order to take care of the employees. So, therefore, you can't be wasteful. You can't squander things, or you jeopardize other people.

Concentrate our strength in agriculture and increase our potential.

When something becomes a business, 50% of your decisions are what you have to do and not what you want to do.

The Pentagon should use data to guide financial decision-making.

I try not to shoot unnecessarily or spend on extra expenses that normally happen on a film set - like actors' fees.

I think, as a chef and restaurateur, that you have to take care of your business. Otherwise, you're only as good as your last meal. You have to watch if your food costs are too high, or you could be out of business in no time.

You don't do a business for pleasure: You have to make money.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

Agriculture involves crop husbandry, animal husbandry, forestry and fisheries. Your income will go up only if you look at the system, and not from one crop alone.

I have long believed the corporate world is plagued by poor capital allocation decisions.