Patrick Lencioni Quotes

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.

Any manager can do well in an expanding market.

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.

Growing Ineos has been a lot of fun.

Making new products is an easy tap for a company in a recession.

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

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.

A strong sense of purpose drives businesses to take the long view and invest for growth.

We're a company that's gone through many cycles and evolutions, and every time we have a major success, we double down and use the money from that to fund our initiatives and so forth.

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.

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

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

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

The most important thing for us is investing and making companies great, and then they have all the options they want, whether that's to go public or stay private.

If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.

I know how to make stuff happen, how to create wealth, create jobs, create investment.

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.

For small businesses to thrive, they require an environment that is conducive for growth.

I will continue to focus on global strategy and to do everything I can to help Yahoo! realize its full potential and enhance its leading culture of technology and product excellence and innovation.

My business acumen is definitely growing.

Everybody starts with creating or acquiring certain property in order to create the material to work with. When we started our business, we thought first of all about development, how to grow, and we managed to do this, even with all the difficulties and all the difficult rules that were implemented in Russia at that time.

You can't run a €10 million business the way you run a €1 million business.

Volkswagen must continue to attack and make good use of its opportunities.

To be successful in business, you have to be ruthless.