Satoru Iwata Quotes

You have to build businesses for longer term.

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.

In the future, there are going to be various components of doing business that have to be looked at.

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

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

By doing what they must do to keep their margins strong and their stock price healthy, every company paves the way for its own disruption.

The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected.

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

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

We recognize the need to adapt to a changing competitive environment.

Our ultimate goal is to stay in business. We are not here with a specific plan. That's kind of how our entire career has evolved. We will figure things out as we go along.

Focusing on the long term and building a great product that is scalable ultimately leads to a great company.

A lot of web companies will take a short-term approach and sell to an incumbent and don't end up living up to their full potential.

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.

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

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

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

For us, we are moving a company that has been around for 137 years to the next level so that we can be there for the next 137 years.

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.

Read over your existing business plan like you read the menu at your favorite restaurant.

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

If companies don't think systemically enough - if they try to capture too much of the value - eventually, innovation moves somewhere else.

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