Graeme Souness Quotes

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

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

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

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

I think every business is definitely different. There are certain businesses where execution is everything.

You just need to go into matches with a clear plan in T20 cricket. If you go half-half, it's going to be really hard to come back.

Businesses make decisions based on what they are seeing in their order books.

Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.

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

As I've said, in 2007, we're free to go and we'll just have to do what's best for the business.

If you want to stay in the business then you've got to be a bit shrewd, haven't you?

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

I hope we can build our offense and go out there and win games.

It's important to have a really clear strategy so when you are in business, you only have to make micro-strategy changes.

I like being part of a big company's executive team. It's fun to stretch other parts of my brain, considering questions like, 'How should we think of acquisitions?' I get to be privy to things that would never come up at a small company.

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

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

Empirical and observational data along with a healthy dash of intuition often have to be combined as business owners begin to look outward, not inward, at what solutions they can provide to their customers.

Observe, orient, decide, act. It's fighter pilot terminology. If you have the faster OODA loop in a dogfight, you live. The other person dies. In Silicon Valley, the OODA loop of your decision-making is effectively what differentiates your ability to succeed.

Business is the systematic playing of games.

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.

In training when I'm receiving the ball I always know where I want to go. At the end of the day it's just soccer.

Regardless of what you do, or who you have, at the end of the day you have to be able to execute better than the defense does in order to score points.