Bill Gurley Quotes

I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

A merchant who approaches business with the idea of serving the public well has nothing to fear from the competition.

There is a healthy competition as there would be in any business. But we do not spend our days thinking about what Marvel is doing.

You cannot get into business for the fashion of it.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

Business is Business.

There is no resting place for an enterprise in a competitive economy.

We are going to continue to run a business, and we are going to continue to meet the supply and demand that's out there.

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

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

The main professional responsibility of a person in business is business.

In Hong Kong, the property business has always been very competitive, so we have to think of ways to get an edge over our competitors.

Risk-taking is my thing... I think of my company as my chip stack.

When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals.

People follow proven formulas in any business.

Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.

If you change the rules of the market, you can be more successful than your competitors.

You've got to know business before you go to show business.

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.

Corporations are not in business to be social-welfare organizations; they are there to make money.

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

If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd, haven't you?

At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining.

It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.

People must be realistic when evaluating their business.