Colby Covington Quotes

I think you need a really strong businessperson running the state, a person who's used to turning negatives into positives, which is what happens in business.

I've had 20 years, 25 years of running business. I've been well trained by a number of amazing organizations and I've got a lot of implicit, subconscious pattern recognition on how to make business decisions.

I have always been a business person.

Obama, for all his brilliance, has no real, felt understanding of management structures or of business.

If you're in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what's going on around you.

I couldn't sell water in a desert. I have no business acumen. I can tell you why you have no business acumen, and I can tell you why your project may or may not work, but I have no ability to make money.

In my experience, the most effective professionals in business and government have the ability to get things done. They're trained to work with multiple stakeholders, to understand how to identify a problem, devise solutions, to compromise and work well with others.

I think I have learnt more about business from fighting than anything else - from any book, from any, like - fighting is an incredible megastore for doing business.

I think if you want to be a successful president or a manager of a team, you need to understand what the business is all about because you have to deal with the business side of the game to be able to do what you need to do.

If I'm in my position at a company, I may not have the knowledge of the C.E.O., I may not know what's possible, or I may not have the creativity, but if I can identify a problem, that's a valuable thing.

I am not a retailer - I have never run a store; I have never understood the full details of how you can make a consumer satisfied. To build a company, to do deals, to motivate people: this is what I am able to do.

Management teams aren't good at asking questions. In business school, we train them to be good at giving answers.

Nobody is actually a natural C.E.O.

A president, like a college freshman, can't know in advance which questions he'll have to answer or what topics he'll have to master. He has to be flexible, supple, and responsive. He has to be comfortable with multiple-choice.

Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.

Being a successful CEO, where I've driven a bottom line, assembled teams, driven results, that's a critical benefit to running the state government.

President Obama's biggest weakness is weakness.

I could never be a manager. All I have is natural ability.

I'm a horrible business person.

There are certain skills that business people have that are - that are, in fact, helpful in - when it comes to being in political leadership.

What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.

I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows how to run a business, knows the numbers.

I'm not very good at business. I'm more of a creative, fun-loving hippie type.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

He's a tremendous guy. And what's more, he's virtually a genius in the field of management.