Billy Beane Quotes

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

Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.

As much as you need to know your operations, if you don't understand the finance side and how to do the business, you're never going to be successful. So you might be the best operator or visionary, but if you don't understand the finance side... I'm successful because I know the finance side, but I also know operations; it's not an accident.

The flakier your mission, the fiercer you have to be on the business side.

A well-managed business will have a high return on invested capital. But that's a consequence. It's not a way to manage a business.

About half my time is spent on business operation type stuff.

Know the business; you need to know the business side of things.

When you play hockey, you don't realize how much it takes to put a team together and the business people around the team, what they do to get the franchise to the next level.

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

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.

The business end of business has never interested me.

The Arena League is the best thing that could have happened to me because I get to run the whole process. I'm seeing not only the football side but the business side.

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

Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.

If you don't operate it as a business, you aren't going to be around very long.

Tactical Work is the work you do every day in your business to generate income, along with all of the operational, financial, and management tasks that entails.

Quit being 'busy' and start actively owning and operating your company, and you'll be able to understand where the money is coming from and how to make more of it.

You can't run a business based on sympathies; otherwise our business would be hampered.

Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.

We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is very important to us or we wouldn't be in this business.

No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.

Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not sustainable business strategy. The other side of it is that you can't cut enough costs to save your way to prosperity.

What I learned from Rockefeller that's off-the-hook important is: You need to know exactly where you stand in a business at all times. Measure everything, because everything that is measured and watched improves.

I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have to change.

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