John Walden Quotes on Business & Commerce (5 Quotes)

Dave's enthusiasm for the business energizes leaders and employees alike. He leverages customer insights to challenge traditional thinking and, in the end, shows solid strategic and financial results. He is a valuable leader who teaches our retail and corporate employees about the business. He helps us develop innovative strategies and grow customer- centric leaders.

We want to offer the consumer the most integrated way of doing business,

The company, back in 1997, decided they needed to start experimenting with the Internet, not knowing how successful it would be, or frankly, even knowing what it would take to start a successful Internet business, ... It tried to figure out what it might need in the future, so the company put together a very simple site that sold music CDs. It was an easy category that didn't require a lot of investment.

I think the amount we learned from ourselves selling music was probably not as critical as looking at the marketplace, building the business around that vision,

In 1998 we sacrificed short-term growth, but we built the foundation for an exciting and financially attractive long-term business.