Companies Quotes
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When backing companies, I always look for industries that are ripe for disruption.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
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.
Bill Gates
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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 -
It struck me that most businesses have less than 100 employees, but most payroll services were going after bigger companies.
Tom Golisano -
In big companies projects have to scale and Lean Startup help us to do it.
Beth Comstock -
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 -
Government, on their part, are much disposed to favor the establishment of these large companies, and to give them privileges to the detriment of their rivals, and of the public, with the expectation of receiving from them loans, either gratuitous or at a low rate which these never refuse. It is thus that the one sells its protection and the other buys it; and this is already a very great evil.
Antoine Destutt de Tracy -
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
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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.
Michael Heisley -
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.
Hillary Clinton -
Of course, it's hard to support full-time programmers, so we do get funds from a set of companies that are interested in the health of the Mozilla project and so are willing to support the people working for the Foundation as well.
Mitchell Baker -
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.
Arie de Geus -
This is a commodities business, so the companies that do it best are the ones that do it more efficiently.
Kate Warne -
Companies should be selling ideas more than benefits. Sell ideas. Not stuff.
Aaron Ross
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Why in the world do the insurance companies get to be the boss of birth? That's what I want to know.
Ina May Gaskin -
Tax has generated a significant amount of discussion, and companies are forced to do what they can to maintain that global competitiveness and perform.
Heather Bresch -
Great companies are formed by great people. It’s not about attracting great people; it’s about retaining them.
Ziad K. Abdelnour -
High-tech companies should be managed by the young generation — talented and ambitious people who are acutely aware of the trends of modern digital business development
Alisher Usmanov -
Pharmaceutical companies are very annoyed with niacin because their products have to compete with it. Some of their cholesterol-lowering drugs cost up to $150 a month while niacin costs about $10.
Abram Hoffer -
It would help to diversify both of their distribution channels as well as the product offering for both companies.
David Haas
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Business plans are the tool existing companies use for execution. They are the wrong tool to search for a business model.
Steve Blank -
It represents a defensive move on the part of both companies
Christopher Doyle -
How much you accumulate is a byproduct of what you enjoy doing in life. And I enjoy buying companies.
Michael Heisley -
I believe that companies, doing business in a responsible and sustainable way, can help raise the quality of life and standards of living in some of the poorest parts of the world.
Antony Burgmans