Companies Quotes
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To suppose that safety-first consists in having a small gamble in a large number of different companies where I have no information to reach a good judgment, as compared with a substantial stake in a company where one's information is adequate, strikes me as a travesty of investment policy.
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As an investor in small companies, I don't care how rich Microsoft is. I care about what my opportunities are.
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I feel like everybody has a purpose. For me, I just want to be an example of what I talk about like speaking and what I preach about when I speak to schools and companies during the off-season.
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We must fight against tax evasion but also defend the rights of tax evaders, or companies that make mistakes.
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I plan to eliminate regulations that hinder domestic companies, particularly large conglomerates from investing in other companies.
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Our companies are based on mutual respect and loyalty to each other. And that works — when you really mean it, the people who work with you know it, and when they do something special you pay them a little extra.
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There are actually three French companies, one of them in the public sector, from which we are buying the submarines and not two.
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When backing companies, I always look for industries that are ripe for disruption.
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It's typical of record companies. They sign you because you're unique, and then they want to put you in a mold so they can sell records.
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During the desperate depression of the 1980s, there were no oil and gas companies without net operating losses.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies.
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Innovation is not the exclusive province of New Economy companies.
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I made my money turning around distressed or bankrupt companies. I did 50-some of them in my career... I started on a shoestring and eventually built up quite a fortune.
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Google Ventures has a direct financial incentive to ensure the companies we invest in succeed.
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I come from the operations side of the business, and I buy companies to operate them, not to flip them.
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The cloud services companies of all sizes; the cloud is for everyone. The cloud is a democracy.
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An important re-engineering principle is that companies should focus on their core competence and outsource everything else.
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Companies die because their managers focus on the economic activity of producing goods and services, and they forget that their organizations' true nature is that of a community of humans.
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As we thought about how to help portfolio companies grow and scale while simultaneously supporting corporate discovery and experimentation, it became clear that we would need to collaborate with a technology infrastructure provider like AWS to help us build a platform for experimentation.
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Favored stocks underperform the market, while out-of-favor companies outperform the market, but the reappraisal often happens slowly, even glacially.
