Edward Lampert Quotes

Just like a script, you need to keep a business plan to yourself.

Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends.

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.

It's important to have a really clear strategy so when you are in business, you only have to make micro-strategy changes.

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.

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

I got an album concept called 'Exit Strategy,' that might be one of my last ones. It's a term they use in business when you build companies. You create an exit strategy as you make a company. You don't wait till you're five years in it; you create a exit strategy as you make the company.

Business comes and goes and we make a strategic decision that could lead you to whole new place.

You need to run the company on an even keel, and you need to be thinking about the company long-term and how to drive your next innovation.

Leaders of companies of any size, at any stage of development spend a lot of time focused on growing the business. We develop our game plan and ensure that we are optimally executing on our objectives. We concentrate on looking forward.

I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

I didn't generate my success by being a prognosticator. I developed my reputation building our businesses by building great businesses and making them more efficient.

Set your business plan to win; raise the bar or you're not going to be prepared. You need to think that what you're doing will make you $100 million.

If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.

It's not wise to limit firms' expansion projects. Let us only be limited by the market.

The business end of business has never interested me.

When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.

Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.

A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.

It's a very difficult business, and I'm very interested in the future of it after I'm gone, and I thought that if I can't produce a strong management team here myself, and I can find better management elsewhere, then I should sell it.

I'm not interested in overexpanding rapidly for expansion's sake.

The essence of good business is knowing when to step on a train and when to step off.

As I've said, in 2007, we're free to go and we'll just have to do what's best for the business.

I think many start-ups make mistakes because they are focusing on things that are farther ahead, and they haven't done the work that has built the foundation to support it.