Juan Enriquez Quotes

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

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

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

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

In the private sector, there is always innovation. There's always change. There's always improving productivity, and if you're not leading that, you'll be passed and ultimately go out of business. So there's an urgency to constantly update and renew and to rethink your enterprise.

An adaptable company is one that captures more than its fair share of new opportunities. It's always redefining its 'core business' in ways that open up new avenues for growth.

By doing what they must do to keep their margins strong and their stock price healthy, every company paves the way for its own disruption.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Intellectual capital will always trump financial capital.

In any business, you have to evolve.

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

Founders go wrong when they start to believe their business plan will materialize as written. I advise entrepreneurs to burn their business plan - it's simply too dangerous to the health of your business.

There's always something happening in the world that creates an opportunity to try to fix a business and build a business.

There is something about military history that fascinates me. You find that many battles have been lost by people with very good military background when they fought battles in a battleground they didn't understand. I have seen that in business, too. You have to look at a marketplace like a battle-ground.

Companies that grow for the sake of growth or that expand into areas outside their core business strategy often stumble. On the other hand, companies that build scale for the benefit of their customers and shareholders more often succeed over time.

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

You can't base an industry solely on one person. That's a very vulnerable business strategy.

Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.

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

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

People must be realistic when evaluating their business.

We can reorient our products and business strategy because we are an agile organisation.

The successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.

Ultimately, innovation depends on the people with advanced skills who have the ideas, and on the business risk-takers willing to back them.

As they grow, companies saturate their markets, become more complex and difficult to manage, and face larger and more entrenched competitors.