James Sinegal Quotes

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

I'm not going to run my business on the basis of quarterly numbers.

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

Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends.

I have almost no interest in quarterly reports. Running a business or investing in a business based on quarterly earnings doesn't make any sense at all to me.

Every time we bring someone in we ensure that they are a strategic thinker, but even more important that they understand that if the products aren't successful and the products don't sell that there won't be anything to strategize about.

You have to build businesses for longer term.

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

Just like a script, you need to keep a business plan to yourself.

If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.

The business end of business has never interested me.

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

Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your 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.

Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple.

I'm a businessman, and what I know is numbers and business.

People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards.

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

When you're talking about capital and financial things, which I certainly pay a lot of attention to, I base those decisions on one question that I typically ask myself, which is 'Does it help us to build a better company?'

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

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

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

I never aspired to be a public figure. I have always been interested primarily in real business and the development of business strategies.

After decades of studying the men and women that make the decision to open their own Great, Growing Company, I'd have to say it comes down to the Vision they have for that business - do they expect to build the company or just have some income for the short term?

It is the performance of the business that matters. It is hard enough to figure out the future of the business. Do not try to figure out the future of the country or the world; focus on the business.