Bonnie Hammer Quotes

Today's tactical victory does not guarantee tomorrow's strategic success.

People follow proven formulas in any business.

Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.

I definitely see a correlation between how many things a company gets right and how fast a company grows.

I never had a plan. I have to say, I'm very shocked when people start a company and say, 'In five years I want to launch a perfume, or in 10 years I want to have this.' How can you know?

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

What an entrepreneur does is to build for the long run. If the market is great, you get all of the resources you can. You build to it. But a good entrepreneur is always prepared to throttle back, put on the brakes, and if the world changes, adapt to the world.

We cannot assume that past successes will insure future successes.

Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping their outcomes towards success or failure: long-term planning, and willingness to reconsider core values.

The hype that accompanied the promotion of successive strategic fashions exaggerated the importance of the enlightened manager and played down the importance of chance and circumstance in explaining success.

I think a lot of success I have had in the past is I have been able to work points, find the right time to come forward.

In the media business and as a creative executive, if you don't take risks, you're dead in the water. Calculated risk-taking is essential for success.

It's all about timing and taking out big shots at the right time.

Advantage is a better soldier than rashness.

Always hedge your bets. That's how I do it. I lay all my bets on what I can contribute, and suffer no illusions that I'm generating stuff by myself.

Imprudence relies on luck, prudence on method. That gives prudence less edge than it expects.

My only "business plan" was to get lucky.

maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark into the world.

The ones who make it, are the ones who manage risk.

Sometimes you have to wait for the right deal. They all seem good, at least at first, and they may make you some quick money. But when the right deal comes, and it fits into your [overall] plan, it's just overwhelming success. Sometimes, with the long-term deals, you have to take a risk if you're going to get a reward. It's exactly like fighting. Sometimes you have to take chances to get that huge win.

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

Fail to plan, plan to fail.

You've got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.

Take calculated risks.

In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer.