James Goodnight Quotes

I think a good business book has one coherent idea that is richly played out.

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

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.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

People follow proven formulas in any business.

Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends.

Lot of companies are looking for advisory work on business strategy, restructuring work.

People must be realistic when evaluating their business.

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

If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

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

Know the business, learn the business, own something.

The key to our business, it's a lot of research.

When companies are successful or not successful, they almost immediately jump to the wrong conclusions about how they got there or why they got there.

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

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work

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.

Set your business plan to win; raise the bar or you're not going to be prepared. You need to think that what you're doing will make you $100 million.

To be sure, if you watch CNBC all day long you'll pick up some interesting news about particular companies and the economy as a whole. Unfortunately, to get to the useful information, you have to wade through reams of useless stuff, with little guidance on how to distinguish between the two.

In any business, you have to evolve.

Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.

When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.

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

There is something about military history that fascinates me. You find that many battles have been lost by people with very good military background when they fought battles in a battleground they didn't understand. I have seen that in business, too. You have to look at a marketplace like a battle-ground.