Business Quote by Gary Hamel Download Open image “Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.” — Gary Hamel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Business Businesses Could Expense Expenses Fail Failing Failure
Many businesses fail because the owner wasn't willing to invest and wasn't educated on the difference between spending money frivolously and investing money into… — Carol Roth Copy Share Image
The single biggest reason companies fail is they overinvest in what is, as opposed to what might be. — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
When companies fail, or fail to grow, it's almost always because they don't invest in the people, the systems, and the processes they need. — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
The statistics for investing in small businesses are such that the vast majority fail. — Theo Paphitis Copy Share Image
Most businesses fail because they want the right things but measure the wrong things, and they get the wrong results. — Gordon Bethune Copy Share Image
Most entrepreneurs fail because they are working IN their business rather than ON their business. — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
This is the free enterprise system. The only place in the world that I can recall where companies never failed was the old Soviet… — John McCain Copy Share Image
As a small business owner, you may not have the luxury to throw good money after bad, but if you can ascertain the 'why'… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
This is the free enterprise system. The only place in the world that I can recall where companies never failed was the old Soviet… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Money goes out first to pay expenses and then comes back as profits later - if at all. The high rate of failure of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden,… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious. — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy. — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
One way of building private foresight out of public data is looking where others aren't ... if you want to see the future, go… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule. — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Truth be told, there are lots of companies that provide exemplary phone support. DirecTV, Virgin America and Apple are a few that regularly exceed… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
The problem with the future is that it is different, if you are unable to think differently, the future will always arrive as a… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
An adaptable company is one that captures more than its fair share of new opportunities. It's always redefining its 'core business' in ways that… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
To be embraced, a change effort must be socially constructed in a process that gives everyone the right to set priorities, diagnose barriers ,… — Gary Hamel Copy Share Image
Companies with cultures that celebrate diverse opinions and encourage the exchange of ideas have an advantage when solving difficult problems. A company that doesn't… — Doug McMillon Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I'm a business first and foremost so whatever my business is, it's separate from my personal. It's like whatever I do business wise, it's… — Snoop Dogg Copy Share Image
Many early-stage entrepreneurs make one simple mistake: Describing this 'big picture' in vague concepts and words. — Sunil Nagaraj Copy Share Image
Nobody has a crystal ball, and part of evolving a business plan is to say, 'I might have said we're going left, but I… — Ryan Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
“[S]ometimes, when you are a food person, the possible irrelevance of what you are doing doesn’t cross your mind until it’s too late. (Once,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
If you have a different mindset, you will have a different outcome: if you make different choices from your peers, your life will then… — Jack Ma Copy Share Image
“Some say the Earth is angry Because he wants no company; I say the Earth is angry Because he lives alone.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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