Mark Mccormack Quotes

#1. If we were to sit and discuss abortion and legalizing marijuana and gay marriage and all those things, you'd be surprised where you'd see me on the side of some of that stuff. People get their opinions - as soon as you're a real flag-waving patriot, then all of a sudden you're a conservative.

Toby Keith

#2. Every discussion in a meeting has a diminishing curve of interest. The longer the discussion goes on, the fewer people will be interested in it.

Mark McCormack

#3. Concentrate on each task, whether trivial or crucial, as if it's the only thing that matters.

Mark McCormack

#4. Anger can be an effective negotiating tool, but only as a calculated act, never as a reaction.

Mark McCormack

#5. People retire to do what I do every day.

Mark McCormack

#6. All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mark McCormack

#7. There are five top superstars in golf, 20 great stars, and 30 good ones. The rest should go and get jobs.

Mark McCormack

#8. If you aren't afraid to fail, then you probably don't care enough about success.

Mark McCormack

#9. To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pioneer in the spirit of Bill Gates.

Mark McCormack

#10. Talk less-you will automatically learn more, hear more, see more-and make fewer blunders.

Mark McCormack

#11. If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles.

Mark McCormack

#12. Quality management is needed because nothing is simple anymore, if indeed it ever was.

Phil Crosby

#13. Short-term can be terminal.

Mark McCormack

#14. Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.

Mark McCormack

#15. Fear of failure is at least as common as the desire for success. In fact, if harnessed properly, it can be the energy that drives the wheel.

Mark McCormack

#16. People don't plan to fail. They fail to plan.

Mark McCormack

#17. Round numbers beg to be negotiated, usually by counteroffer round numbers. Odd numbers sound harder, firmer, less negotiable.

Mark McCormack

#18. If new ideas are the lifeblood of any thriving organisation-and, trust me, they are-managers must learn to revere, not merely tolerate, the people who come up with those ideas.

Mark McCormack

#19. Today, if someone showed me a five-year plan, I'd toss out the pages detailing Years Three, Four and Five as pure fantasy Anyone who thinks he or she can evaluate business conditions five years from now, flunks.

Mark McCormack

#20. She is seventy, and she believes you try new things or you may as well die.

Gabrielle Zevin

#21. In our business, the windows of opportunity open and close with dazzling rapidity ... I constantly have to remind people to seize the moment.

Mark McCormack

#22. If you can not win, make the enemy pay a steep price for victory

Carlson Gracie

#23. I am convinced that most companies don't maximize their barter possibilities. Instead of aggressively reducing costs by trading their services with those of their suppliers, they seem content to pay top dollar for everything.

Mark McCormack

#24. Is it sexy in here or is it just me? - T-shirt.

Darynda Jones

#25. The mental game of business is understanding this Paradox: the better you think you are doing, the greater should be your cause for concern: the more self-satisfied you are with your accomplishments, your past achievements, your 'right moves', the less you should be.

Mark McCormack

#26. Everything, no matter how evident or obvious, should be doubted, questioned, viewed with suspicion ... There is much to be gained from the discovery that one has been deeply, persistently, and utterly wrong.

David Mermin