Giancarlo Stanton 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.

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

Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That's OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it's not guaranteed.

I pitch to win.

Containment is a strategy for losers! But as General George S. Patton famously observed, Americans play to win all the time. Americans don't play to lose.

This is a business and everything happens for a reason. I'm going to just to play hard, try to play hard and do whatever it takes to win.

You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you.

In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else.

I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!

I think that at the start of a game, you're always playing to win, and then maybe if you're ahead late in the game, you start playing not to lose. The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple.

This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely.

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.

In a period of economic downturn, the overwhelming instinct is to pare back, cut costs, and lay off. If you do that, do so with your strategy in mind. The worst mistake is to cut across the board. Instead, reconnect and recommit to a clear strategy that will distinguish yourself from others.

There's the concept that if I do this big budget project, then that will help me do the things I really want to do and bring more money to those films.

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.

But you don't get into a business because of personal tastes.

There's always more money to be made.

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.

I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value.

If you are focused on profits right out of the gate, you're gonna have the smallest profitable business that has ever been seen.

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.

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.