Gary Hirshberg quotes

Gary Hirshberg quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die”
-- Gary Hirshberg

#Business Quotes #Quality Quotes #Management Quotes
“My counsel to entrepreneurs is to 'own' a region, 'own' a market, 'own' a segment. Create something you can defend. Don't get hung up on the idea that you have to go national.”
-- Gary Hirshberg

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“We as consumers really do have the right to know what's in our food,”
-- Gary Hirshberg

#Consumers Quotes
“There can be no progress on climate change without strong and aggressive leadership from the White House. Â While we have been frustrated that it took until now, we find that the Presidentâ€™s plan contains plenty of smart proposals and pathways for action. Stonyfield stands firmly behind the President's vision.”
-- Gary Hirshberg

#Strong Quotes #Smart Quotes #White Quotes
“The secret to my success is I know what I don't know and I hire people smarter than me.”
-- Gary Hirshberg

#People Quotes #Secret Quotes
“I believe in the power of one.”
-- Gary Hirshberg

#Believe Quotes #I Believe Quotes #Power Of One Quotes
“Superior quality is a prerequisite to entering the game. By definition, an entrepreneur is undercapitalized relative to the status quo. Therefore, if you enter a product that is either at parity with the leaders, or not as good, you won't even get to the starting line.”
-- Gary Hirshberg

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“Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.”

Source : 1931 'Too Much!'.
“It's okay to doubt yourself, it's okay to feel down; just never give up.”
“The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.”

Source : Ad Reinhardt (1975). “Art-as-art: the selected writings of Ad Reinhardt”, Viking Adult
“Achievement results from work realizing ambition.”
“Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.”

Source : Abdus Salam, C. H. Lai (1987). “Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam”, p.279, World Scientific
“If we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities. Whatever he taught, we should practise it. Only bowing to him is not enough. We need to renounce, give up, stop, so that we may see the Buddha.”
“The lesson is that, No. 1, this management has to be at the highest class possible. No. 2, they have to have a succession plan.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is always easier to talk about change than to make it.”
“A stochastic process is about the results of convolving probabilities-which is just what management is about, as well.”

Source : "Management Science" by Anthony Stafford Beer, (p. 58), 1968.
“Time is the supreme Law of nature.”

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