Mookie Betts Quotes

Business wise, I have always learned valuable lessons so I don't regret any decisions I have made.

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

What I learned is that in business you must make decisions based on facts, not react with your heart.

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

All entrepreneurs make decisions. Some will go right, and some will not go that right.

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?'

There's certain circumstances, there's certain situations, there's certain decisions that have to be made based upon the business and you can't take that personal.

All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.

I feel very strongly that you shouldn't mix your emotions with business. When it comes to my emotions, I certainly don't mix them with my business.

Running a business anywhere isn't easy.

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

My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.

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.

I can't understand the conditions of a corporate product being designed and getting millions. I admire it, it's great, but I don't know how to do that.

Working on a startup is a balancing act: being crazy enough to believe your idea can take off but not crazy enough to miss the signs when it's clearly not going to.

Whenever you start a new business, the sheer number of variables at hand makes failure a constant possibility.

The goal isn't just to make transactions: it's to make better decisions in the way you run your business. If that's not at the top of every executive's priorities, then they shouldn't be an executive.

I think a lot of entrepreneurs think they need money to build the business faster when they actually haven't figured out the business equation yet.

Having my own label, I have to look at things in a realistic, bottom-line manner.

In any business, you get your numbers together before you go out and do the work.

I never, ever, ever let emotion get in the way of an investment.

The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts.

When you need to make a decision, don't let your emotions vote.

I've got $130 million in the bank and a whiteboard full of cool ideas for emerging markets and technologies where we're gonna test the waters and see what happens.

As a businessman, I know that businesses need certainty.