Henry Sy Quotes

If I have any insight at all to contribute it is this: find out what you are really good at and stick to it.

Focus on just a few things, and do them better than anybody else.

Mr. Wrigley believed in this: Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket. They don't do that today. This is the old-fashioned way I'm talking about. He carried it on to his business. Do one thing and stay with it.

I'm not the kind of guy who dabbles in a lot of things.

Strategy 101 is about choices: You can't be all things to all people.

Give me a man who says this one thing I do, and not those fifty things I dabble in.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

In business, staying focused requires that you turn most opportunities down.

As MBA professors endlessly tell their students, companies do best when they stick to what they do well. There's a reason Apple doesn't make blenders. There's a reason Haagen-Dazs doesn't sell meat. And there's a reason drug companies should focus on saving and improving lives - not jeopardizing them.

If you really stay focused on what your beliefs are and what your customer wants, you'll find the right markets.

That's the great thing about Apple: it's very focused on the things that we know how to do very well and not try to extend ourselves to areas that we know very little about or don't have a lot of expertise in.

Figure out your niche and maximize it.

My focus has always been very much on what we're doing at Red Bull. We can't control what others do. It's not our business.

I never had a backup plan. I've only been good at one thing. I admire people who are jacks-of-all-trades. That's not me.

When you have a deep focus, you can't go wrong at all. Not when you're an expert at what you do.

When you're building a business, you want to focus and deliver excellence at what you do. This simply cannot be done when you are launching multiple ventures, dozens of new products, and selling everywhere and anywhere at the same time.

There's not enough said about the beauty of being able to focus on what you do well.

It's important to focus on what we do best and master one craft at a time.

Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.

Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.

A man cannot be professor of zoölogy on one day and of chemistry on the next, and do good work in both. As in a concert all are musicians,-one plays one instrument, and one another, but none all in perfection.

We're focused on doing one thing incredibly well. If you look at other companies, all of these companies are doing a lot of different things but we're still, as we grow, doing exactly one thing.

Focus on your business strengths and keep its weaknesses away from the competition or public.

No one achieves greatness by becoming a generalist. You don't hone a skill by diluting your attention to its development. The only way to get to the next level is focus.

An important re-engineering principle is that companies should focus on their core competence and outsource everything else.