Alexa Von Tobel Quotes

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

People must be realistic when evaluating their business.

People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards.

Leaders of companies of any size, at any stage of development spend a lot of time focused on growing the business. We develop our game plan and ensure that we are optimally executing on our objectives. We concentrate on looking forward.

Just like a script, you need to keep a business plan to yourself.

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

There's one thing I've learned about entrepreneurs' business plans. Every one is wrong.

Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.

Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.

I got an album concept called 'Exit Strategy,' that might be one of my last ones. It's a term they use in business when you build companies. You create an exit strategy as you make a company. You don't wait till you're five years in it; you create a exit strategy as you make the company.

Businesses make decisions based on what they are seeing in their order books.

Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.

Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends.

The flakier your mission, the fiercer you have to be on the business side.

One thing I've learned about his business is this whole 'plan thing' - it doesn't work.

Our ultimate goal is to stay in business. We are not here with a specific plan. That's kind of how our entire career has evolved. We will figure things out as we go along.

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

As I've said, in 2007, we're free to go and we'll just have to do what's best for the business.

In a period of economic downturn, the overwhelming instinct is to pare back, cut costs, and lay off. If you do that, do so with your strategy in mind. The worst mistake is to cut across the board. Instead, reconnect and recommit to a clear strategy that will distinguish yourself from others.

I never had a plan. I have to say, I'm very shocked when people start a company and say, 'In five years I want to launch a perfume, or in 10 years I want to have this.' How can you know?

You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.

I think it's natural for any manager to want to grow his business. The question is at what rate, and in what direction, and in what format?

Every entrepreneur, whether man or woman, should start with a robust business structure.

Empirical and observational data along with a healthy dash of intuition often have to be combined as business owners begin to look outward, not inward, at what solutions they can provide to their customers.

Business is the systematic playing of games.