Alexei Mordashov Quotes

There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don't like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don't spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities.

The fundamentals of your business are like free throws: emphasize and practice them to perfection.

Pushing for excellence is a fight. You have to fight to hire the right employees, fight to get the supplies you need, to move line items around. Being a great manager means pushing to get those few extra inches every day. It's almost like a football game - the team that wins sometimes wins by just inches.

And ours is a business that requires discipline and focus.

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

The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: do more of what you do.

Most businesses fail because they want the right things but measure the wrong things, and they get the wrong results.

An entrepreneur assumes the risk and is dedicated and committed to the success of whatever he or she undertakes.

In the first three years of Mint, from when it was founded to when it was sold, I can honestly say that in a sustainable way, I couldn't have worked any harder on it.

In many respects, we really are trying to not run the Social Office like a business, but we do have a strategy. We do have a mission. We are trying to standardize certain things so that our time is not spent on, you know, picking flowers or linens, that we've got standards.

It's all about having a product that you're proud of and coming to work every day. Those basic building blocks are the same in any business.

If you're going to run a small business, you need to know what everyone is doing, be the first one in and the last one out, and work weekends.

In setting goals and executing a strategy, Wanda is sophisticated. We have good systems and departments. If targets are not reached, a yellow light goes off.

There are companies with management and companies with money. You can always find money. Management is the key to success in any business.

The business is a very tricky obstacle course, and you should be very clear about work begetting work. If you're not working, you're not interesting.

Successful companies obviously have people with ideas and energy.

In every business, in every industry, management does matter.

No business can succeed in any great degree without being properly organized.

Successful ventures in business or philanthropy are built around great teams who can help us overcome tremendous challenges - and have the right experiences and relationships to do so.

I enjoy difficult tasks. What's hard is finding the people to do them and finding a team to actually enjoy success. That is the real challenge of success.

I've always maintained the basic business principles of keeping it simple, doing your homework, hard work, and common sense.

I started with shoes, and with hard work and discipline, the business prospered.

In real business, there's spiritual success and then there's facts and just hard work and making sure you're on point with the product.

We overestimate the event and underestimate the process. Every fulfilled dream occurred because of dedication to the process.

There's no formula for success in this business. You just do the best you can.