Jeff Raikes famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

In order to succeed... you have to put a stake in the ground.
-- Jeff Raikes

#Order #Succeed #Stakes
In business, there's a constant focus on developing strategies, reviewing executive performance against those strategies each year, engaging with opposing or different points of view, and having intellectual dialogue.
-- Jeff Raikes

#Views #Years #Focus
In business, the market gives you feedback in real time. Your sales figures tell you what's working, what isn't, and how you need to change. If you don't listen to the feedback, you go belly up. In philanthropy, there is no market.
-- Jeff Raikes

#Real #Giving #Needs
Enterprise search is becoming an indispensable tool to businesses of all sizes, helping people to find, use and share critical business information quickly.
-- Jeff Raikes

#People #Tools #Use
You know, being an entrepreneur is super hard work, and if you're not passionate about what you're doing, you're probably not going to succeed.
-- Jeff Raikes

#Hard Work #Entrepreneur #Doing You
Even bad results teach you something, and you can learn your lessons and get better.
-- Jeff Raikes

#Get Better #Lessons #Results
At Microsoft, the magic of software is used to take on very interesting challenges.
-- Jeff Raikes

#Interesting #Challenges #Magic
When families save, they can get through emergencies like a bad harvest or a medical emergency. But it's more than that. They can also plan for the future, gradually saving up for a small business or for their children's school tuition.
-- Jeff Raikes

#Children #School #Tuition
One of my great values that my father intuited, and indirectly taught me, is that you should always have a plan but be open to opportunity.
-- Jeff Raikes

#Father #Opportunity #Taught
I'm a person who enjoys the hands-on experience of anything I do. Get your hands dirty - that's the thing that drives and motivates me.
-- Jeff Raikes

#Dirty #Hands #Enjoy
Lawyers don't run sales forces.
-- Jeff Raikes

#Running #Lawyer #Force
There's a lot of good that's done for society in building businesses, but it's also great to be involved in those things where you can be connected to the community, to the world, and think about how you can use what you're creating, both in terms of your personal skills as well as your products or services to do good things for others.
-- Jeff Raikes

#Thinking #Skills #Creating

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