Leon Trotsky Quotes

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

You just can't get too focused on worrying about what's going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.

My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.

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.

While 2015 was challenging, we implemented many strategic and operational initiatives to improve our business and better position J.Crew for the future.

Why would you give me so much money and not try to win? What on earth is the point of that? They have to be serious about winning going forward. There's no other logical explanation.

Business strategy is the battleplan for a better future.

Strategy is about shaping the future.

You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term.

Companies that get confused, that think their goal is revenue or stock price or something. You have to focus on the things that lead to those.

You go out there and ask them what their future is today. If we don't build that today, there's nothing.

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.

We haven't rushed to set up targets, either in business or in football. Our goal was to understand how to act and then to move gradually.

You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.

In the struggle for power, propaganda is an instrument to be used by those who want to secure or retain power just as much as it is by those wanting to displace them.

You have to build businesses for longer term.

In the business world, if you're not looking ahead, you're missing something.

In business, I think the most important thing is to position yourself for long-term and not be too impatient, which I am by nature, and I have to control myself.

As I spent tons of time with customers, not just in the United States, but in emerging markets, in Europe, in Latin America, top of mind for everybody is how do they drive growth for their business going forward.

Successful strategic vision lay in the fact that we visualized the retail business to be much bigger, ahead of what others thought it to be.

Giving up your core business in search of a phantom audience is not wise.

If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.

I think we need ideas for the future.

Business comes and goes and we make a strategic decision that could lead you to whole new place.

I think it's really important to have a long-term perspective.