Business Structure Quotes

Our line of business structure has served us very well in the past, when customer segments and product requirements were very distinct.

I think that might have been an element in it, and people have asked me that very thing. Remember, Disney is the majority shareholder, but it is not an operating division of Disney.

I've never been in the enterprise where your customers are your partners. It was always, you had customers, and you had partners.

Generally, what people tend to underestimate is the cyborg nature of Groupon. We are a company that has the DNA of being both a technology company and a heavily operational company.

There's the good and the bad aspects to Social Media. What I do find great is how much social media has changed businesses and the way they structure their marketing.

As I've evolved, I'm capable of doing a lot of things at once, but really, as an entrepreneur and business person, it's more about adding the right structure to be able to handle scaling all those things as opposed to being at the forefront of doing a lot of them.

I believe that you have to understand the economics of a business before you have a strategy, and you have to understand your strategy before you have a structure. If you get these in the wrong order, you will probably fail.

We have got to be more comfortable experimenting with different models. So maybe a client just needs execution people or a lot of young people who are great with social media. We don't always have to give them the pyramidal structure of senior VP and account supervisor.

We are a very systems- and process- driven business which reports directly to the board, whether it is risk or legal.

Most accountants will tell you the majority of small businesses run as an S Corporation.

I discovered that the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize a company. The whole notion of how you build a company is fascinating." Steve Jobs

The primary asset of any business is its organization.

The beauty of having an LLC in today's world is No. 1, you have the ability to act and react as nimbly as need be to create change, and you have the ability to invest politically, in the for-profit sector and the nonprofit sector simultaneously.

If you've done a bit of journalism, everyone assumes you must be moving into PR. We're absolutely not becoming a PR agency and we're not turning into Brunswick. We will remain SRU, but we will be owned by the Brunswick Group. It's quite different.

When lack of structure fails, it fails all at once. What works totally fine from 0-20 employees, is disastrous at 30.

Every business is a monarchy with, not a man, but an idea as king.

Hierarchy is an organization with its face toward the CEO and its ass toward the customer.

Companies like Papa John's are largely a collection of small independent businesses.

The way my dad set things up was for me to oversee the business side and for my brother to oversee the basketball side. I know my dad felt that was a good system, and that's the system we're trying to make work.

[The business is] more corporate and more formulaic and less experiential.

Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

Amazon makes money differently from a conventional publisher. It is an infrastructure player.

There can be no one best way of organizing a business.

Every entrepreneur, whether man or woman, should start with a robust business structure.

STG is a combination of a holding company and a private equity model.