Companies Quotes

• When you look at Washington, it's really not that big. And its economy is completely dependent on those two companies. When they're doing well, the whole state does all right, but when they're down, there's nothing to fall back on.

  

  Joe Davis
  • Fall
  • Economic
  • Washington

• The elites - or managers in companies - no longer control the conversation. This is how insurrections start.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • Control
  • Conversation
  • Managers

• There are actually three French companies, one of them in the public sector, from which we are buying the submarines and not two.

  

  Pranab Mukherjee
  • Companies
  • French
  • Submarines

• Taking products designed for large companies and then retrofitting them to work for smaller businesses is a recipe for failure. It would be like a bus manufacturer changing the color of the bus from yellow to black, and then calling it a car.

  

  Zach Nelson
  • Car
  • Companies
  • Recipe

• We believe the combination of these two companies will produce very powerful synergies and puts us on a solid platform from which we should be able to realize our full growth potential.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Believe
  • Powerful
  • Growth

• The government is somewhat inept, but the private sector is inept in general. How many companies do venture capitalists invest in that go poorly? By far most of them. However, every once in a while a Google or a Microsoft comes out, so people keep giving them money.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Government
  • Google
  • Microsoft

• These companies need to invest in America's energy infrastructure and resources. ... The oil companies need to do their part.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • America
  • Energy
  • Resources

• It's quite a mistake to think that music fans don't work on major record companies. Sometimes, you know, you do find some good people on corporates, among all the infidels.

  

  James Dean Bradfield Manic Street Preachers
  • Fans
  • Record
  • Companies

• Most companies aim to get bigger. But beyond a certain point, bigness becomes synonymous with badness. Think of Big Pharma, Big Auto, Big Oil. Worse, if you are regularly described as one of the Big Four, Five, or Six in any business sector, you are probably already in the sights of regulators and lawmakers.

  

  Andrew Hill
  • Companies
  • Lawmakers
  • Regulators

• That enables those companies to then build in some value-added features.

  

  Dan Devine
  • Build
  • Features
  • Value-added

• In many cases, Rhode Island is just not on the radar of a lot of companies. But once companies or people take the time to look at our high quality of life, low cost of living, great talent, good business environment, often people see it’s an excellent place, and they want to take a harder look.

  

  Gina Raimondo
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.

  

  Andy Grove
  • Good
  • Great
  • Bad

• This is a fulfillment of our vision of 'The Business Web,' enabling companies of any size to manage, organize and share all of their business information on demand.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • Business
  • Vision
  • Business Web

• The balance of power is shifting toward consumers and away from companies The right way to respond to this if you are a company is to put the vast majority of your energy, attention and dollars into building a great product or service and put a smaller amount into shouting about it, marketing it.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Power
  • Balance
  • Consumers

• Google Ventures has a direct financial incentive to ensure the companies we invest in succeed.

  

  Bill Maris
  • Succeed
  • Companies
  • Ventures

• It's not just the market fluctuation. It's also what's going on with these big companies. Everyone's got questions about this.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Questions
  • Companies
  • Fluctuations

• We benefit from foreign direct investment. Many Americans are employed by foreign companies with plants in the United States, for example in the automobile industry. So, trade is a two way street. I think, it is important to protect Americans who lose their jobs, or whose jobs come under pressure from international trade. But, I think, we need to be careful not to embrace economic isolationism.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Important
  • Jobs
  • Investment

• Many companies, however, do not have a clear and accurate understanding of their transportation costs, ... They're often bundled together with other costs and reported at an aggregated level, thus preventing companies from allocating transportation costs to specific products, customers, or business units.

  

  Adrian Gonzalez
  • Companies
  • Costs
  • Bundled

• I can help the next generation remember the lineage of great companies here and how to continue the tradition. The Valley has been very supportive of me. I should do my best to repay.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Generation
  • Tradition
  • Companies

• Innovation is not the exclusive province of New Economy companies.

  

  John McKinley
  • Innovation
  • Companies
  • Province

• The cloud services companies of all sizes; the cloud is for everyone. The cloud is a democracy.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • Democracy
  • Companies
  • Cloud

• There are plenty of things in vaults that didn't sell in its time. So much stuff. But slowly these companies start to get a hint that these things have some value.

  

  Devendra Banhart
  • Value
  • Stuff
  • Companies

• Favored stocks underperform the market, while out-of-favor companies outperform the market, but the reappraisal often happens slowly, even glacially.

  

  David Dreman
  • Favored
  • Outperform
  • Reappraisal

• An editor is bound to avoid the meshes of the law, which are always infinitely more costly to companies, or things, or institutions, than they are to individuals.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Institutions
  • Avoid
  • Editor

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