Roger Goodell Quotes

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

People must be realistic when evaluating their business.

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

Twenty-eight years in business and you understand the importance of problem solving and the importance of efficiency, because if you don't become efficient, you don't run a business well, and you are out of business. And I think some of those principles could be applied to leadership in Washington.

Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.

As a company gets big, the information that informs decision-making gets massive. Depending upon the prism through which you view the business, your perspective will vary. If two people are in charge, this variance will cause conflict and delay.

If you run a business, if you are responsible for a lot of people, you come to grips with the reality that you have to have discipline. You have to protect the enterprise in order to take care of the employees. So, therefore, you can't be wasteful. You can't squander things, or you jeopardize other people.

We must solve problems before they occur, rather than scrambling to deal with crises after they erupt..

There is a time for weighing evidence and a time for acting. And if there's one thing I've learned throughout my work in finance, government, and conservation, it is to act before problems become too big to manage.

Being a Navy SEAL and sniper taught me all about risk management. Take away all the risk variables under your control and reduce it to an acceptable level. The same fundamentals apply in business.

I love Gateway, and I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure the company can grow and prosper in this challenging environment.

If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.

Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term.

If we look at pricing holistically, we'll create a more solid business.

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.

Launching a start-up, you need to get a lot done quickly. Every day is different. Everyone pitches in with everything. It's easy for the founding team to say, 'We're flexible. We all help out with everything!' But when it comes to making decisions - that flexibility can spell inefficiency and disaster.

You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.

Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.

In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.

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

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

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

If there wasn't any business and it was just strictly basketball, then there would be no issue, it would probably be done by now. But the team has to protect.

I was always fascinated by the decision-making process and the managerial process and just business in general.

This is our 40th year in business. We don't have a single penny from outside investors, and we never borrowed heavily from the banks. We have a healthy balance sheet and more credit than we can use.