An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
Job creation requires a business friendly environment with a tax structure that is not punitive and a state government designed for efficient use of fewer tax dollars.
Megaupload is not responsible for the piracy problem. It's the old business model of Hollywood that is responsible for it, and they want to keep that model alive at any cost.
You need to put your hands around the throat of your business, and you need to run it. There's no other way.
I used to think business was 50 percent having the right people. Now I think it's 80 percent.
We own 18 percent of just the PC business. Now that's only about 60 percent of our business today.
I don't think you should ever start a business and move in a direction where you can't see it becoming a business.
When I started teaching at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2000, no field-based courses in strategic philanthropy existed.
The idea of going into the property business and collecting rent four times a year and waiting for five-year rent reviews has limited appeal.
We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel.
Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon.
I love to compete. To me, business is the ultimate sport. It's always on. There is always someone trying to beat me.
I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows how to run a business, knows the numbers.
Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.
I've been in this business now for almost ten years. I've done a lot of stories. I have a pretty good track record.
I really don't have heroes in business; I never looked up at business people.
In the final analysis, finding a way to do clean business and not to pay bribes actually improves your bottom line.
They will therefore not be in a hurry to risk their entire business by expanding too rapidly, but they are the major indicator of whether the manufacturing industry accepts there is a sustainable business in RFID production.
Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.
No one doing big business can avoid some contact with government agencies, regulators, and policy makers.
I like knowing about everything, and I think that really helps me in my business.
