Big Show Quotes

When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.

You have to make a decision whether it's a new product or you integrate it with an existing product. It takes time to work these things out.

The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.

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

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

Good household decision-making often relies on thinking about your household like a firm.

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

The tools used by economists to analyze business firms are too abstract and speculative to offer any guidance to entrepreneurs and managers in their constant struggle to bring novel products to consumers at low cost.

Business is Business.

Business is the systematic playing of games.

Our job is to find out what's the next thing that is going to be advantageous to us and contribute to winning.

Because the private sector has evolved processes and metrics for growth over many generations, for-profit models are more likely to efficiently accomplish their goals.

You can't make good decisions without knowing the business.

I didn't generate my success by being a prognosticator. I developed my reputation building our businesses by building great businesses and making them more efficient.

Business wise, I have always learned valuable lessons so I don't regret any decisions I have made.

Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.

It's not wise to limit firms' expansion projects. Let us only be limited by the market.

When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.

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

CEOs make hard decisions; sometimes, the least worst is the right one.

You go to any MBA program, and you will be taught the theory of the firm, that the purpose of the firm is the maximization of return on invested capital. I always thought this was a kind of lunacy.

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

Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time.

You need to carry out very careful pre-feasibility and feasibility studies before you enter any crisis situation.

Basically if you study entrepreneurs, there is a misnomer: People think that entrepreneurs take risk, and they get rewarded because they take risk. In reality entrepreneurs do everything they can to minimize risk. They are not interested in taking risk. They want free lunches and they go after free lunches.