Sam Hinkie Quotes

Markets don't allow you to hang about.

We recognize the need to adapt to a changing competitive environment.

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

You have to be willing to risk things; otherwise, somebody else will put you out of business.

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

People look for an edge in an uncertain world.

You have to do what the market requires of you... You either keep swimming, or you sink.

In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.

You've got to close deals quickly, or else you'll miss out.

When you're a large company with significant market share, it's tempting to view market disruptions as a threat, but we view them as an opportunity.

Executives need ample flexibility to respond to the market. That means both reducing costs and increasing innovation.

Most tech companies do one trick and die. If you can do two or three or four, that's where wealth gets created.

Business is the systematic playing of games.

I've said it for four decades - work 'on' your business, not just 'in' your business!

Businesses will ultimately go where the markets and opportunities are.

Successful strategic vision lay in the fact that we visualized the retail business to be much bigger, ahead of what others thought it to be.

I don't really care about capitalizing on momentum.

Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.

Giving up your core business in search of a phantom audience is not wise.

The external world is changing drastically, and enterprises and products will have a short lifecycle if they don't change. So we have to react to market trends. Nothing lasts forever in today's world.

Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.

Football is business. It's all about being quick, quick, quick - nobody has any patience nowadays. But then again, that is how things are in normal life, away from football.

Sometimes, the startup game works in your favor just because you got in at the right time and right environment. Other times, you're a little too late entering an already crowded space. But startups with strong fundamentals withstand external conditions and come out ahead in good or bad times.

I've always prided myself on doing what really was best for business.

I see business as an ecosystem.