Companies Quotes
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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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Favored stocks underperform the market, while out-of-favor companies outperform the market, but the reappraisal often happens slowly, even glacially.
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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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The cloud services companies of all sizes; the cloud is for everyone. The cloud is a democracy.
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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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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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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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We must fight against tax evasion but also defend the rights of tax evaders, or companies that make mistakes.
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Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the Web like deer on a freeway.
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Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change.
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The industry has changed in that it is far more disposable than it used to be. When Boyzone came out, we were given a shot and the patience to record our singles and albums. Nowadays, the thought is if it is not working, then the artist will be dropped. The record companies will bail on the artists, and I find that sad.
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Don't get ahead of yourself. Companies need time to figure out what they want to be.
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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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Learning from mistakes and constantly improving products is a key in all successful companies.
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Our largest companies should not be able to get away with paying hardly anything at all. It is insulting when they engage in these games like moving their headquarters over to a foreign country, on paper, not in reality, just to take advantage of lower tax breaks.
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The fact is, there are Fortune 500 companies that have been founded during recessions.
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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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In big companies projects have to scale and Lean Startup help us to do it.
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It's fantastic that Microsoft in the cloud space is one of very few companies that's got the critical mass, the particular emphasis on helping business customers get up to that cloud with all the unique requirements they have. It's very exciting.
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This is a commodities business, so the companies that do it best are the ones that do it more efficiently.
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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.
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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.
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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 important re-engineering principle is that companies should focus on their core competence and outsource everything else.
