Business Models Quotes

• A business model describes how your company creates, delivers and captures value.

  Steve Blank

  Capture, Company, Models

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• Luck is not a business model.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Luck, Models

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook”, p.58, A&C Black

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• Startups don’t fail because they lack a product; they fail because they lack customers and a profitable business model.

  Steve Blank

  Failing, Profitable Business, Models

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• Having the ability to be brutally honest with yourself is the greatest challenge you face when creating a business model. Too often we oversell ourselves on the quality of the idea, service, or product. We don't provide an honest assessment of how we fit in the market, why customers will buy from us, and at what price.

  Mark Cuban

  Assessment, Ideas, Creating

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• Unless you have tested the assumptions in your business model first, outside the building, your business plan is just creative writing.

  Steve Blank

  Writing, Creative, Firsts

  "No Plan Survives First Contact With Customers – Business Plans versus Business Models". steveblank.com. April 08, 2010.

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• Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.

  Aaron Levie

  Technology, Building, Disruption

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• Business model innovation is constant in this economy. You start with a vision of a platform. For a while, you think there's a line of sight, and then it's gone. There's suddenly a new angle.

  Beth Comstock

  Thinking, Sight, Innovation

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• Good design can't fix broken business models.

  Jeffrey Veen

  Business, Broken, Design

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• Have a core concept, but wrap it in a full business model.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Models, Wraps, Core

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Breaking an old business model is always going to require leaders to follow their instinct. There will always be persuasive reasons not to take a risk. But if you only do what worked in the past, you will wake up one day and find that you’ve been passed by.

  Clayton Christensen

  Past, Leader, Risk

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• Strategies are great, business models are great, but the reality is your music has to mean something to people.

  Brother Ali

  Mean, Reality, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's not a single business model, and there's not a single type of electronic content. There are really a lot of opportunities and a lot of options and we just have to discover all of them.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Opportunity, Type, Models

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• For CEOs today, it's all about acheieving growth and efficiency through innovation. It's not about product innovation so much anymore as about innovating business models. process, culture and management.

  Ginni Rometty

  Innovation, Growth, Today

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• A business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail.

  Charlie Munger

  Failing, Rely, Models

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• Nostalgia isn't a business model

  John Naughton

  Nostalgia, Models

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• A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.

  Steve Blank

  Organization, Blank, Models

  Steve Blank (2012). “The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company”, p.77, BookBaby

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• Surveillance is the business model of the Internet.

  Bruce Schneier

  Surveillance, Internet, Models

  "On Internet Privacy, Be Very Afraid". Interview with Liz Mineo, news.harvard.edu. August 24, 2017.

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• In any business that grows big on one business model, transitions can throw everything in the air.

  Bing Gordon

  Air, Transition, Bigs

  "With latest accolade, the future is Bing Gordon’s game (exclusive interview)". Interview with Dean Takahashi, venturebeat.com. January 14, 2011.

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• The business model piece is we're always talking about competing more effectively. If you're starting a company or career you don't want to compete. You want to create a monopoly. We want to invest in a company that has a good plan to create a monopoly.

  Peter Thiel

  Talking, Careers, Investing

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• You say: "I'm a blue sky thinker." Investor thinks: "You have no business model, and you don't know how to ship."

  Guy Kawasaki

  Thinking, Blue, Sky

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• Many [business] people focus on what is static, black and white. Yet great algorithms can be rewritten. A business process can be defined better. A business model can be copied. But the speed of execution is dynamic within you and can never be copied. When you have an idea, figure out the pieces you need quickly, go to market, believe in it, and continue to iterate.

  Gurbaksh Chahal

  Believe, Black And White, Ideas

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• Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants.

  Jay Samit

  Flow, Causes, Disruption

  Jay Samit (2015). “Disrupt Yourself”, p.19, Pan Macmillan

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• Most business models have focused on self interest instead of user experience. Those are the kinds of problems we solve to solve.

  Tim Cook

  Self, Design, Kind

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• You have to have a business model you believe in and like.

  Henry Blodget

  Believe, Models

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Most companies are built to execute today's business model, not discover tomorrow's.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Today, Tomorrow, Company

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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