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Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top.

— Vernon Jordan

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.

— Gavin Newsom

In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.

— Ben Horowitz

When you found a company, you have the original vision, you make all the original decisions, you know every employee, you kind of know every aspect of the product architecture and its limitations.

— Ben Horowitz

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.

— Arthur Rock

Companies that get confused, that think their goal is revenue or stock price or something. You have to focus on the things that lead to those.

— Tim Cook

Obviously I've got a great team of people within the company. You can't operate all by yourself. We have a good board of directors and a big bench, and they can make decisions if I'm not around.

— Roger Penske

We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want.

— Laura Ashley

I work strategically with my management team to make all decisions.

— Karlie Kloss

✗Opposing Perspectives

I've never had a business plan. Every project we've ever done was the intersection of somebody with a real need, a real passion to do something, and hustling.

— Dean Kamen

There's this joy that comes from sitting down to solve a problem and standing up when it's done and good. Building a company or managing people is never just done.

— Drew Houston