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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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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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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I plan to eliminate regulations that hinder domestic companies, particularly large conglomerates from investing in other companies.
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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.
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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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During the desperate depression of the 1980s, there were no oil and gas companies without net operating losses.
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Google Ventures has a direct financial incentive to ensure the companies we invest in succeed.
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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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Innovation is not the exclusive province of New Economy companies.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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The cloud services companies of all sizes; the cloud is for everyone. The cloud is a democracy.
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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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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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The fact is, there are Fortune 500 companies that have been founded during recessions.
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Too many of the women lack critical assignments that will give 'star' visibility in their companies, even though they are considered high potential," she said. "Such assignments enable a woman to prove herself by showcasing her skills, tenacity, leadership, and making a difference to the company's bottom line.
