Dennis Muilenburg Quotes

The objective is to be competitive from March onwards.

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

Just like football, business is a game of inches, where the smallest advancement or advantage can mean the difference between winning and losing.

With experience also comes the understanding that you have to beat the rally before you can beat the competition.

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

If you have a vision and you are trying to accomplish something, you have to be competitive, or things are going to slip by you.

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.

The essence of strategy is that you must set limits on what you're trying to accomplish.

The emphasis on innovation and technology in our companies has resulted in a few of them establishing global benchmarks in product design and development, manufacturing practices and human resource capabilities. However, there is no room for complacency.

It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.

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

The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.

All this improvement is great, but all that does is get us in the game to play for improvements that we need in the future, so that we can be aggressive in the marketplace.

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.

Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.

I have a sort of long-term plan to direct. I'm pragmatic about it. I realize I don't need to rush it or force it.

Management is all about managing in the short term, while developing the plans for the long term.

If progress is to be steady we must have long term guides extending far ahead.

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

No matter what, the entrepreneur must strive to be above average and, at the same time, understand what is driving those averages they are seeking to beat. Take the time to understand and test the metrics you are using, and then you can not only set the average, you can exceed it.

If you put on your business hat, you can't maintain competitiveness by staying at a competitive disadvantage. I mean, you just can't. The odds are just not in your favor.

The biggest challenge to thriving in the marketplace is identifying the strategic moves that will keep us ahead of the competition.

We must build toward the future so that we are prepared to deal with the threats we will face at home and abroad and understand how those threats may be connected.

My focus has always been very much on what we're doing at Red Bull. We can't control what others do. It's not our business.

Even though we live in a fast-changing world with short term-ism all around, it requires years of determination to transform a company and structurally reap the rewards. Innovation companies need to set their sights on solving unmet needs - but this approach requires focus and long-term tenacity.