Robert Hewison Quotes

I think everybody at IBM knows the early 1990s disaster, and it's in our fabric that you cannot miss the ship.

That first company I started made a lot of money for the venture capitalists - nearly $30 million - but next to nothing for the founders. The companies I started after that varied between failures and mediocre successes. But at no point did I ever consider getting a 'real job.' That felt like a black and white world, and I wanted Technicolor.

Many Chinese companies are run like military camps with military discipline. We do not run a company that way. It does not help the creative process.

I love criticism. Equitable Life went down because management wouldn't brook criticism, but if you are in business, you have to hear what's going wrong.

Women will take over the Ford Motor Company someday—and wreck it. That’s what happened at Gulf Oil

We've always operated under the belief that you could run a video game business as professionally as you could run a consumer packaged goods business, and you wouldn't diminish creativity.

The failure rate for gym owners and personal trainers is very high because it is very difficult for them to work on their business when they are busy working in their business.

Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise whether economic or academic, or even just managing a sports team is likely at some point to be chastened by either the setbacks brought on by his own mistakes or by seeing his successes followed by negative consequences that he never anticipated.

Don't get cocky just because you've had a good run. You can lose your business as fast as you've earned it.

I can't run a company... I can't even run my own life!

I didn't know how to run a business. I was a terrible gallerist, the worst in history, possibly.

What we call a financial crisis is really at its core a crisis of management, and not just a crisis of management, but a crisis of management culture. ...In other words, what you had is a detachment of people who know the business from people who are running the business.

I never wanted to run a production company. I didn't want to convert my life into running a business.... so I always resisted it and kept things simple.

Business neglected is business lost.

I built a phenomenal company; if we could run America the way I ran my company, we'd be proud of it.

To run a successful business, you have to be tough.

I begin to understand that failure is its own reward. It is in the effort to close the distance between the work imagined and the work achieved wherein it is to be found that the ceaseless labor is the freedom of play, that what’s at stake isn’t a reflection in the mirror of fame but the escape from the prison of the self.

A business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail.

To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.

Whoever sincerely believes that elevated and distant goals are as little use to man as a cow, that "all of our problems" come fromsuch goals, is left to eat, drink, sleep, or, when he gets sick of that, to run up to a chest and smash his forehead on its corner.

Cash is the lifeblood of your business. There are very few things in business that will kill you, but running our of cash is one of those things. You can recover from almost any other mistake, but if you run out of cash you're dead.

When I'm photographing, I don't have that kind of nonsense running around in my head. I'm photographing. It's irrelevant in the end, so it doesn't mean a thing. It's not going to make me do better work or worse work as I can see it now.

We should've been better, more disciplined. We made untimely mistakes defensively, as a group. This is really humbling for us. After winning the Stanley Cup, we got brought back down to earth, hard. Maybe the humbling is good for us in the long run.

If I give up nine runs on nine hits, I tip my hat.