Companies Quotes
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I come from the operations side of the business, and I buy companies to operate them, not to flip them.
Michael Heisley -
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
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We picked a great marketplace. We were a pioneer in payroll processing for very small companies. And we had the perseverance and good fortune enough to stick it out.
Tom Golisano -
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 -
I plan to eliminate regulations that hinder domestic companies, particularly large conglomerates from investing in other companies.
Lee Myung-bak -
Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision. They insert lots of layers of middle management between the people running the company and the people doing the work. They no longer have an inherent feel or a passion about the products. The creative people, who are the ones who care passionately, have to persuade five layers of management to do what they know is the right thing to do.
Steve Jobs -
Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies.
Scott Westerfeld -
Innovation is not the exclusive province of New Economy companies.
John McKinley
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Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change.
Bill Gates -
Favored stocks underperform the market, while out-of-favor companies outperform the market, but the reappraisal often happens slowly, even glacially.
David Dreman -
I never thought that shoes would be the reason that you recruit players, but it's a factor. I think we need to get the shoe companies out of the lives of the athletes. I think we need to get it back to where parents and coaches have more of a say than peripheral people, but that's easier said than done.
Rick Pitino -
Large companies from out-of-state still look at the Mormon factor and wonder if they can conduct business here. But with the Provo Airport gearing up, and if we get regular scheduled flights, that would help our growth.
John Roy Anderson Yes -
I hate screamers, I hate people who abuse other people. At our companies — the ones I’ve been in charge of – that’s not tolerated.
Doug Morris -
Learning from mistakes and constantly improving products is a key in all successful companies.
Bill Gates
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The companies are no longer the purveyors of good taste. Youtube is.
Steve Gustafson 10,000 Maniacs -
Many companies are disappointing the citizens of this world by manipulating labor rates, putting horse meat instead of beef out there, or thinking it's totally acceptable to make a T-shirt from a collapsing factory. Increasingly, people don't want to work for these companies, and consumers don't want to buy from them.
Paul Polman -
There's 20 companies that I have investments in - some batteries, some solar-thermal, one big nuclear thing. We need hundreds and hundreds of companies like that, so that in a 20-year time frame we really are starting to change the energy infrastructure.
Bill Gates -
It struck me that most businesses have less than 100 employees, but most payroll services were going after bigger companies.
Tom Golisano -
Many companies forget what it means to make great products. After initial success, sales and marketing people take over and the product people eventually make their way out.
Steve Jobs -
I see myself as a private-equity investor that helps rebuild companies. Restructuring is a cottage industry in that there aren't that many serious practitioners.
Wilbur Ross
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As financial market players know, advantage comes from reacting to news first. The same thing is true for all companies. When you start the conversation, you are recognised as someone who is plugged into the marketplace of ideas. If you talk about an idea early, you naturally get more exposure because the threads of conversation stem from what you have said. If you're in late you get lost in the cacophony.
David Meerman Scott -
Many companies aspire to change the world. But very few have all the elements required: talent, resources and perseverance. Microsoft has proven that it has all three in abundance.
Satya Nadella -
I think companies trying to exercise a so-called inversion should be hit with an exit tax. So I want to change behaviors, and I am deeply distressed about quarterly capitalism, because I think it is causing businesses to make decisions that are not helping the long-term profitability of American corporations or the success of our economy.
Hillary Clinton -
Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the Web like deer on a freeway.
Geoffrey Moore