Gerald Brenan Quotes

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

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

You can't make good decisions without knowing the business.

I've always studied business. Even when I was a ball player, I'd read business journals and the business sections of newspapers.

Over my career, somewhere, somehow I must've made some right calls. Otherwise, I wouldn't be in business.

What do you need to succeed in business? You need the ability to think critically and communicate, and those things you can get just as easily out of a philosophy degree.

People must be realistic when evaluating their business.

I don't keep up on a lot of the business trends.

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

Know the business, learn the business, own something.

My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did.

People who have been successful in business have a huge amount to offer young people who are just starting out.

You can't be successful in business without taking risks. It's really that simple.

I love the business of business; I love the risk raking.

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.

I see the level of sophistication and knowledge about business growing dramatically. Several decades ago, only a few companies thought about international business.

I think that business book reporting, it's all Jim Collins, it's the story of victory; it's success bias over and over again.

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

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

The way you continue to be a successful business is you don't wait for the car to go off the cliff. You have to manage yourself. And make sure you do it in the right way so you are not making decisions in crisis.

When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.

Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects.

No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.

When I first got into business, I made a lot of bad decisions.

You've got to know business before you go to show business.