Sandra E. Peterson Quotes

I was honored to start a small business and to borrow an enormous amount of money and to build piece upon piece, place upon place, building upon building and product upon product, throughout the United States and eventually Europe and facilities around the world.

I run businesses all around the United States, all around the globe.

I've been a business person for 30 years. I started my own companies; I've invested in others.

Shaping the future is what drives me. Since I left politics, I'm very much interested in emerging markets.

When you see Major League Baseball putting academies in other countries, obviously that throws up a red flag. You wonder why they ain't going up in our neighborhood. Bottom line, what I see, I talk about... I see it over and over. If anybody can show me I'm wrong, then show me.

No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.

I see the level of sophistication and knowledge about business growing dramatically. Several decades ago, only a few companies thought about international business.

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

Haier, a Chinese brand, exemplifies the trend of emerging market companies building brands that are being accepted, if not recognized, by the Western consumer.

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

When you introduce something new to a country, you want to do it right. Generally, that means you have to do it yourself.

Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.

I spent most of my career operating businesses and fixing businesses, not staring at a Bloomberg screen.

We'll have, by the end of 2013, 30 local language editions of Forbes, many of those are pioneers in the markets they serve with Forbes.com. We launched recently in Thailand and Vietnam, and we're in China and Korea and all around Latin America.

Travelex has grown into a global business in just 25 years. The acquisition of Thomas Cook's Global & Financial Services has created a business that would have had a combined turnover of U.S. $28.4 billion in 2000.

All our hiring staff are trained to interview in English. They're trained to look for Westernized segments because we deal with global customers.

I'm fascinated by management and organizations: how organizations get things done and how successful organizations are built and maintained, how they evolve as they grow from start-ups to small companies to medium companies to big companies.

Emerging markets are hugely important.

VW's future is increasingly being decided in China, Russia, India, the Americas and Southeast Asia. This is where we will generate most of our growth in future.

I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less.

Once you go global, you can’t stay local.

The state of the economy is not the issue when it comes to growing a business. The relevant questions are always: 'What business are you in? Furthermore, is it adapting to the times?'

I've run businesses with thousands of people. I've run businesses with 10 people.

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

As I spent tons of time with customers, not just in the United States, but in emerging markets, in Europe, in Latin America, top of mind for everybody is how do they drive growth for their business going forward.