Companies Quotes

Big companies are almost always far too slow to actually kill a small competitor. — Omar Hamoui

I vote Democrat because I believe oil companies profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but the government taxing the same gallon at 15% isn't. — David Letterman

Litigation funders are private companies that raise money from their investors to buy into big lawsuits. — John Grisham

I want to see talent and companies and money and entrepreneurs moving to Chicago. — Sam Yagan

The massive migration from dumb phones to smart phones is a great opportunity for young companies to take advantage of. — Adam Dell

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like. — Mark Zuckerberg

A lot of international companies invest in the U.K. as a base for doing business with the rest of the European Union. — Tim Harford

There is a responsibility on all companies to look at the quantum of pay and the relationship between the top and the bottom. — Stuart Rose

Companies rarely die from moving too fast, and they frequently die from moving too slowly. — Reed Hastings

I believe that companies that are independent are more competitive, ultimately. — Evan Williams

It's unreasonable to expect medical doctors and pharmaceutical companies to tell you how to avoid their services by trying the alternatives. — Andrew Saul

Look for companies with high profit margins. — Warren Buffett

I like the challenge of growing small companies into big global companies. — Eckhard Pfeiffer

There's a number of companies clearly that we wish we had invested in either at the early or at the moderate stage. — Douglas Leone

Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders. — Ursula Burns

I think the real bargains are what they would call the smaller, ignored and unloved companies. — Mario

Companies are looking to be quicker with content, provide faster approval and be able to capitalize on the conversation and content of the moment. — Jeff Barrett

Winning companies win because they have good leaders who nurture the development of other leaders at all levels of the organization. — Noel Tichy

The companies' most effective tactic, however, was simply to put out the goods and let surgeons play. — Atul Gawande

In the Valley. The power is shifting to the engineers who create the companies. — Michael Lewis

Social media for the majority of companies is not about helping customers or improving products. — Tucker Max

The more confidence I have in each one of my stock picks, the fewer companies I need to own in my portfolio to feel comfortable. — Joel Greenblatt

In most companies, the best project management skills are found in the IT department, because they work on a project basis all the time. — Dave McNab

We took the insurance companies out of the driver's seat. — John Salazar

Junk food companies are acting very much like tobacco companies did 30 years ago. — Mark Bittman

Insurance companies don't make anything. — James Dyson

Obama is telling the insurance companies, as a dictator would, what they can and can't do or what they must or must not do. — Rush Limbaugh

Companies often become victims of their own mythologies. — James Surowiecki

I left the entertainment industry part of my life behind in 1983, when we decided not to work with major record companies anymore. — Arlo Guthrie

Comic book companies are like comic book villains; they keep coming back after they die. — Jim Steranko

In high-tech companies, fraud generally starts in sales due to managers attempting to perfect the ultimate local optimization. — Anonymous

IT companies in Bangalore are a reliable engine of development for India. — Angela Merkel

All companies that grow really big do so in only one way: people recommend the product or service to other people. — Sam Altman

Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea. — Guy Kawasaki

Don't get ahead of yourself. Companies need time to figure out what they want to be. — Bart Decrem

Actions speak louder than words. All companies say they care, right? But few actually exercise that care. — Simon Sinek

Private companies have a lot of capital. They can run things efficiently and get projects built. — Steve Martin

M&A negotiations feel really fun. This is one of the biggest killers of companies, is they entertain acquisition conversations. — Sam Altman

I like companies that try and break away from the norm. — Lawrence Taylor

I want companies who get federal contracts to hire more women and minorities from the local area. — Hilda Solis

If you start a successful company in China at 11 A.M., by 2 P.M. there's three more companies like it. — Douglas Leone

Original visions are often wrong. Companies have to morph as they learn what customers don't want. — Guy Kawasaki

The best companies are the ones that offer their products for free. — Danny Rimer

We willingly share personal information with companies for the convenience of using their products. — Rebecca MacKinnon

Most companies are not those things. They are focused on the competitor, rather than the customer. — Brad Stone

There are three kinds of companies: those who make things happen; those who watch things happen; and those who wonder what's happened. - Anonymous — Philip Kotler

The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective. — Melissa Auf Der Maur

Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame. — Marian McPartland

All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition. — Peter Thiel

The fact is ... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsoft's business practices. — Orrin Hatch

There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older licensing schemes. — Sean Parker

Companies believe that more open space will boost productivity and creativity, but they have no evidence to prove it. — Anonymous

The cloud services companies of all sizes; the cloud is for everyone. The cloud is a democracy. — Marc Benioff

As an accountant by trade, my work for blue chip companies took me all over the world. — Marta Andreasen

I made publicity contracts with Nike, several broadcasting companies and airline companies within Australia. — Cathy Freeman

It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies. — Kara Swisher

We all learn submission because we all have 'bosses', whether we're presidents of companies or not. The easiest place to learn it is in family. — Richard Foster

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One way to mitigate our risk is to invest in companies with understandable business models. — Andrew Tan

I plan to eliminate regulations that hinder domestic companies, particularly large conglomerates from investing in other companies. — Lee Myung-bak

In companies whose wealth is intellectual capital, networks, rather than hierarchies, are the right organizational design. — Thomas A. Stewart

If you go to a paintball subreddit, paintball companies can advertise to you. — Sam Altman

They're out there, this appalling idea that there are companies that profit - not just profit but profit enormously - through war. — Jonathan Demme

I understand quarterly billing, how the record companies run. — Nikki Sixx

We must support and protect individuals and companies engaged in life saving medical research — Tony Blair

I nationalize strategic companies and get criticized, but when Bush does it, it's OK ... Bush is turning socialist. How are you, comrade Bush? — Hugo Chavez

Here in America we so are for family values, yet insurance companies do not cover all fertility procedures. — Cindy Margolis

A lot of companies are still using social as the world's shortest press release. — Jay Baer

The biggest opportunity for big companies has come by far in the digitization of internal processes. — Jack Welch

The trans fat label has been an enormous incentive for food companies to take trans fat out of their products. — Marion Nestle

Companies that pollute should be taxed so that a product's cost to society is reflected in the price of that product. — Eliot Spitzer

There are two types of companies in the world: those that know they've been hacked, and those that don't. — Misha Glenny

For linear-thinking companies, the six Ds of exponentials are the six horsemen of the apocalypse - no question about it. — Peter H. Diamandis

I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them. — Carlos Slim

Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them. — Andy Grove

I got a lot of film companies approaching me to write some songs for their films. — Juicy J

We've tried to build Sequoia Capital with an eye for the long term that we really look for in the companies we like to partner with. — Douglas Leone

We like companies that can get big and powerful on $50 million or less and not two, three, four or five billion. — Douglas Leone

My motivation has always been to do technology apps and companies, not making money. Just because the money's come, nothing's changed. — Nick D'Aloisio

Anytime there is a new, interesting space that comes along, there are a bunch of companies that enter the market. — Trip Adler

There are those who build careers and companies just out of being popular on Instagram, but there's nothing behind them. — Margot Robbie

Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud. — Edmund Phelps

In the most innovative companies there is a significantly higher volume of thank yous than in companies of low innovation. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Call center technology enables companies to "score" incoming calls and to give faster service to those that come from affluent places. — Michael J. Sandel

Why is it that big companies fail when the technology changes? It happens in every industry, so what's the pattern? What are they all doing wrong? — Jesse Schell

Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature. — Gary Hamel

Each year, food companies use an amount of salt that is every bit as staggering as it sounds: 5 billion pounds. — Michael Moss

I'm going to start a lot of companies. These are not sham companies. These are great businesses. — Eric Lefkofsky

The companies that are successful, they start out to make meaning, not to make money. — Guy Kawasaki

And what do automobile companies do? They see something that's taking off and they want to mimic it, don't they? — Don Panoz

Business schools need to address students on a human being level, not as cogs in the machine to supply fresh talent to big companies. — Srikumar Rao

Companies thrive on the basis of the stories they tell. — Jay Abraham

Is now composed of older, larger companies. And old, big companies do not start new businesses, innovate in profound disruptive ways, or create jobs. — Brink Lindsey

Great fit and synergism for both companies and excellent outcome for employees, customers and shareholders. — Philippe Kahn

It also makes me wonder whether we might soon see pain relief trials funded not by drug companies, but by the gaming industry. — Jo Marchant

Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars. — Elon Musk

Companies fail for lack of brains and effort. — Mark Cuban

In promoting Sino-Swiss economic ties, transnational companies, such as Nestle,played an active role. — Wu Bangguo

I have never earned one penny from any pharmaceutical company. I will never accept one penny from them either. Ever. — Michael Specter

I think all record companies should be run by a musician. Just as you wouldn't trust your health to an electrician. — Paul Bley