Gerry Schwartz Quotes & Sayings

“Good decisions can have bad short-term outcomes but be great for the business long-term.”

“I was a kid from Winnipeg - I didn't know anything about the world.”

“In an undergraduate business environment, the best learning experience is the interaction students have with each other. They need to learn from each other as much as from professors and lectures and other teaching tools.”

“Helping people getting a great start in life, a great foundation, is an investment.”

“I came from Winnipeg and a small-town background, and I wouldn't say a depressed area, but Winnipeg has never been a rich area like Toronto.”

“I love the U.S. I love doing business there.”

“I'd always felt like a Canadian living in the U.S.”

“Private equity does pay very well, and my counterparts, guys that I grew up with who are still working at a number of firms, all make a lot of money.”

“A lot of what I do is running businesses rather than buying stocks. My worst decision is probably when I know I have the wrong chief executive running the business, and I keep on waiting to make the difficult decision of replacing him.”

“I am personally interested in more than just business schools. However, life has been good to me, and it's been good to me through a business career. I think the chance to help strengthen the foundation of young people going into business, as I did, just appeals to me.”