Companies Quotes
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Web 1.0 was making the Internet for people, Web 2.0 is making the Internet better for companies.
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Scientists and companies weren't creating things like new vaccines. Now that we have this fund that's there to buy at the lowest price, but buy for those people these medicines, we see scientists everywhere coming up with those new tools.
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The Obama administration took rapid and decisive action to restructure GM and Chrysler. Within a fairly short period of time these companies were working effectively again.
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Companies should be selling ideas more than benefits. Sell ideas. Not stuff.
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It's super important that people use their significant buying power to pull companies like Ferrari and show them there is a market for sustainable fuel. So many other car companies would take notice if Ferrari made headway on this measure.
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We've created a device that has absolutely no limitations. There's no insurance company that can say 'no.' There's no hospital that can say 'no.' Anybody who's paralyzed now has access to draw or communicate using only their eyes.
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Everyone interested in licensing our field might note that the reason licensing has been invented is to protect the public, not designers or clients. 'Do no harm' is an admonition to doctors concerning their relationship to their patients, not to their fellow practitioners or the drug companies. If we were licensed, telling the truth might become more central to what we do.
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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.
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Most companies are busy making their products worse, not better. Updating is almost always a disaster.
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A recession is very bad for publicly traded companies, but it's the best time for startups. When you have massive layoffs, there's more competition for available jobs, which means that an entrepreneur can hire freelancers at a lower cost.
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The proposed zone is nothing more than a giveaway exception for developers waving the magic biotech flag for monetary gain. Biotech companies are also chemical companies. Chemical companies and their support operations are now restricted to industrial zones. That is where they belong.
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We should never be allowed to forget that it is the customer who, in the end, determines how many people are employed and what sort of wages companies can afford.
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We make interesting companies and real businesses. It's not social networks for cats.
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Each of those companies and nations is doing something different, but there is an exciting sense that there are areas that overlap, which makes us all want to get up in the morning and go as fast as possible; there’s a little bit of a space race – but it’s a friendly competition.
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Winning companies win because they have good leaders who nurture the development of other leaders at all levels of the organization.
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For some companies, going public makes the most sense. For others, remaining private is preferable.
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Using the Lean Startup approach, companies can create order not chaos by providing tools to test a vision continuously.
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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.
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There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.
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Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.
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Most troublesome is the legalization of 'crowd funding,' the ability of start-up companies to raise capital from small investors on the Internet.
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In the biggest companies, seek out the most useless positions: those in consultancy, appraisal, research, and study. The more useless your position, the less possible it will be to assess your 'contribution to the firm's assets.
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I love doing deals and operating companies.
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First Round has an opportunity: to create an entirely new kind of online publication, built for technology entrepreneurs, where they can learn how to build better companies.
