Don Drysdale Quotes

I started at GM knowing very little about that particular business. Not being an expert means you have to learn everything, starting from the basics.

In business, experience is the big teacher.

I like to learn about things. I could learn about business, which I knew nothing about. Since the age of 7, I wanted to be a doctor and nothing else.

Even though I am Chairman of Dole Food Company, I do most of my own grocery shopping.

No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience.

I love this company. I don't know how it was selected. It's a bunch of machers. They mean business.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.

If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years.

My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.

My favorite magazine is the 'Harvard Business Review.' If someone sat across from me in a restaurant and didn't know me, that might surprise them.

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

There is a difference between hiring a CEO and turning over control of the business.

I had no idea until I joined the games industry and met some of the power players, particularly those running large public companies, that much of this world is run by complete clowns.

The thorniest business problems will surface at the board meetings, and the different, sharp opinions help to better explore the poles of the arguments to make better decisions.

One thing you learn very rapidly in this business is that you are part of a continuing tradition.

From the minute I got to 'Fortune,' I loved my job. I knew myself to be a virtual dunce about business, and I was wide-eyed about how much I was learning.

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

The artist's business requires an involvement in practically everything... The total scope of information he receives day after day is of concern.

What is a college? An institute of learning. What is a business? An institute of learning. Life, itself, is an institute of learning.

Successful people, in all callings, never stop acquiring specialized knowledge related to their major purpose, business, or profession.

I've always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I'd read business journals and the business sections of newspapers.