Companies Quotes · Page 8

Great companies are built by people who never stop thinking about ways to improve the business.

— J. Willard Marriott

I think that the best companies are companies that have a real purpose.

— Marjorie Scardino

Companies don't like uncertainty; travelers don't like uncertainty.

— Dara Khosrowshahi

Private equity helps produce strong companies, promotes innovation and spurs job growth.

— N. Robert Hammer

“VCs usually spend even more time on the most problematic companies”

— Peter Thiel

Companies often become victims of their own mythologies.

— James Surowiecki

Companies such as Wipro and Infosys are giving good jobs and salaries.

— Amarinder Singh

The stereotypes really play into what kinds of companies women can get funded for.

— Anita Borg

Few industries have the ability to transform society like tech, yet too few companies are asking the questions or working on the…

— Mitch Kapor

I have several computer companies. One of them I have a program for wide-format printing. I have a beauty program. So I…

— Jerry Mathers

New Hampshire state government is a big customer for prescription drug companies. Just as businesses do, we should take advantage of the…

— John Lynch

Insurance companies pay big bucks for procedures but next to nothing for patient consultations and preventive medicine, which is what most medicine…

— Alex Gibney

Customer service teams at many companies have already embraced social media, often out of necessity.

— Ryan Holmes

When I started in the business in 1999 and 2000, we had companies that were going public in two, three or four years.

— David Sze

But in the past, US companies have been able to increase their profits through downsizing in the US, through colonizing other people's…

— David Korten

During dark times, real entrepreneurs come out. They are not competing with 10 look-alike companies for engineering talent, so it's a great…

— Douglas Leone

So many technologies start out with a burst of idealism, democratization, and opportunity, and over time, they close down and become less…

— Tim O'Reilly

Companies are always being bought and sold. The markets are always moving; you have to be on top of your position. And…

— Karen Finerman

A lot of people like the idea of companies being socially involved in their community, but if you want big companies to…

— Blake Mycoskie

The United States has an unfair advantage, as most of the popular cloud services, search engines, computer and mobile operating systems or…

— Mikko Hypponen

My concern is the really great concepts that are features, not companies. There isn't enough advertising to support all those features, and…

— Ross Levinsohn

We are beginning to see a fundamental outrage at the whole interconnected mess of a system: at energy companies who record massive…

— Noreena Hertz

It's not accidental that products get worse over time; it's because companies stop paying attention to them. They stop caring as much…

— Aaron Levie

I never thought that shoes would be the reason that you recruit players, but it's a factor. I think we need to…

— Rick Pitino

Companies have centers of gravity. Where they are is part of their identity.

— Marc Randolph

Private companies have a lot of capital. They can run things efficiently and get projects built.

— Steve Martin

Another way of looking at this, is that the best companies are almost always mission oriented.

— Sam Altman

A lot of companies talk about letting creative lead, but Chanel actually does let it lead.

— Maureen Chiquet

I don't run any of my companies. I always partner with somebody who wants to operate.

— Jim McKelvey

Good companies do whatever it takes to make sure apps are great and don't hesitate to add features.

— Sundar Pichai

Very few companies can perform at scale over the course of decades, and Yahoo has done that.

— Ross Levinsohn

We discovered that there are actually fewer companies actually buying data.

— Noam Bardin

“FINAO. My word for my companies. Failure Is Not An Option.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

I think all of these companies staying private for as long as they are is actually pretty bad.

— Baiju Bhatt

Companies are not ingenious, it's the people in them that are.

— James Dyson

Great companies have been reduced by hiring executives that don't work out.

— Dylan Smith

We are extremely attractive to page companies, because we significantly increase their user base.

— David Rose

I brought one big question with me to Harvard. Why do smart companies fail?

— Clayton M. Christensen

Companies that are closest to the customers are the ones who are going to lead the industry.

— Ted Waitt

U.S. companies earn more from their investments in the EU than in the rest of the world combined.

— John Bruton