Companies Quotes
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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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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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Having a size 9 foot is fantastic because almost all of the shoe companies do their prototyping in size 9, so if you visit a place like Nike headquarters, you can try every sort of wacky, out-there model.
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Most companies are busy making their products worse, not better. Updating is almost always a disaster.
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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.
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When companies get bigger they try to replicate their success. But they assume their magic came from process. They try to use processes to substitute content.
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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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Value innovation requires companies to orient the whole system toward achieving a leap in value for both buyers and themselves.
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For some companies, going public makes the most sense. For others, remaining private is preferable.
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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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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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Luxembourg is the first adopter in Europe of a legal and regulatory framework recognizing that space resources are capable of being owned by private companies.
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To me it was so natural that companies should seek their own survival. I had seen nothing else in my life. Companies struggle to keep going and to grow, for as long as possible.
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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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Using the Lean Startup approach, companies can create order not chaos by providing tools to test a vision continuously.
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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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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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From all over the planet they came…. They came in companies and alone, with money and without, knowing and naïve. They tore themselves from warm hearths and good homes, promising to return; they fled from cold hearts and bad debts, never to return. They were farmers and merchants and sailors and slaves and abolitionists and soldiers of fortune and ladies of the night. They jumped bail to start their journey, and jumped ship at journey’s end. They were the pillars of their communities, and their communities’ dregs…
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My name is Wendell Potter and for 20 years I worked as a senior executive at health insurance companies, and I saw how they confuse their customers and dump the sick -- all so they can satisfy their Wall Street investors.
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What we have are log and timber frame home companies who build homes in this region and all across the country. And they're here this weekend to help customers in this region to answer questions about building their dream home.
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Big media companies have lots of money and content, but they have no way to tap into a good base of users.
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The measure of a man cannot be whether he ever makes mistakes, because he will make mistakes. It's what he does in response to his mistakes. The same is true of companies. We have to apologize, we have to fix the problem, and we have to learn from our mistakes.
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Over 30 years ago, Airbus was founded by a European consortium of French, German, and later Spanish and British companies to compete in the large commercial aircraft industry with U.S. companies.
