Learning from mistakes and constantly improving products…

Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be something…

— Bill Gates

One thing people underestimate is how markets don't allow anyone to do anything except make better and better products. There's not much leeway. The…

— Bill Gates

I've become absolutely convinced that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre or unsuccessful ones has little, if anything, to do with what…

— Patrick Lencioni

In my view the successful companies of the future will be those that integrate business and employees' personal values. The best people want to…

— Jeroen van der Veer

Often, there is no correlation between the success of a company's operations and the success of its stock over a few months or even…

— Peter Lynch

To survive in modern times, a company must have an organizational structure that accepts change as its basic premise, lets tribal customs thrive, and…

— Ricardo Semler

Truly visionary and successful companies have discovered that there is no conflict between the pursuit of profit and having a pursuit beyond profit.

— David Maister

There's only one thing that all the successful companies in the world have in common: None was started by one person.

— Anonymous

We've seen a lot of data at YC now, and the most successful companies and the ones where the investors do the best... end…

— Sam Altman

I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on…

— Naveen Jain

Successful companies in social media function more like entertainment companies, publishers, or party planners than as traditional advertisers.

— Erik Qualman

Quality is the one absolutely necessary ingredient of all the most successful companies in the world.

— Frank Perdue

Every tech story is different. Every moment in history happens only once. All successful companies are successful in their own unique way. It's your…

— Peter Thiel

They have a policy in China for their big companies called "Go abroad." It's a rational thing for both the company and the country…

— Jamie Dimon

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

— Ralph Abernathy