Craig Thompson Quotes

In general, great companies prefer to grow 'organically,' as Wall Street likes to say. That is, from the inside out, by finding new markets or by taking market share from their competitors.

Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money.

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

From my point of view, my job is just to work hard for our franchisees, so they can maintain the position they're in, and to grow market share.

We want to make as big a market as we can with our current product.

AOL has a great collection of brands, and the question is, 'Can they innovate and scale their business?' And those are very challenging things to do. But I think they are well positioned to grow.

Creating value isn't enough - you also need to capture some of the value you create.

The purpose of a business is to create customers.

It's a very competitive market. AEG has a ticketing platform, Stubhub has grown their marketshare, Vivid has come out of nowhere. It's not like venues don't have options. If you're a venue you can pick any ticket platform you want, and we have to provide a better product and win that business fair and square.

Here's what I know about the business I am in. It's all based on money. It's all based on ratings.

The Texas-OU game is a big revenue bear. And because it's played at a neutral site, you don't have as many student body going as you would if it was home-and-home. These are full-price tickets.

The best mental effort in the game of business is concentrated on the major problem of securing the consumer's dollar before the other fellow gets it.

As much as we disliked the Yankees, fans and players alike, they were good for baseball. They consistently unsuccessful teams like the Browns, Senators, and A's paid a lot of their bills with those big crowds that poured through the gates when the Yankees came to town.

Our economic competitors ... are eating us for lunch, and we can get in the game or not. We can be at the table, or we can be on the table.

I want Wipro to be among the top ten IT companies in the world.

In Knoxville, they're still doing cartwheels because they went 7-6 and won a bowl game.

No matter where they put people, no matter how they try to promote people, there aren't too many people in the game today that are on my level on and off the court.

But at the end of the day, there are some questions that have no answers, and then one answer that has no question: love rules the game. Every time. All the time. That’s what counts.

Players who have more great games than other players are the great players.

We worried about competitors, but it was an unreasonable fear. As a friend once pointed out, most gunshot wounds are self-inflicted.

I don't know any other other team that got to the finals without two all stars.

It is often the easiest move that completes the game. Fortune is like the lady whom a lover carried off from all his rivals by putting an additional lace upon his liveries.

People will always go to games. And not just Duke versus North Carolina. Even Appalachian State against Chatworth.

If you want to be in the game you better shoot 75% from the line.

The value decade is upon us. If you can't sell a top-quality product at the world's lowest price, you're going to be out of the game.