Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies…

If we succeed, it makes no sense to keep it only for ourselves.

— Edward Boyden

As someone who understands what's needed for entrepreneurs and start-up companies to succeed, I can tell you there is nothing more integral to their…

— Alan Patricof

Companies that succeed are driven by internal ambition. Stock price doesn’t drive them. Ambition and values drive them.

— Sumantra Ghoshal

From now on, the technology companies that succeed will be those that have developed skills at listening and a sophisticated understanding of their customers'…

— Samuel J. Palmisano

The only big companies that succeed will be those that obsolete their own products before somebody else does.

— Bill Gates

MBA programs are underwritten by large companies and they succeed at producing future employees of large companies. In that regard, they are doing exactly…

— Lewis Schiff

I fully understand that not all of the companies will succeed and that there will be losses along the way, but this is very…

— Andy Murray

The good news about building a company during times like this is that the companies that do succeed are going to be extremely strong…

— Marc Andreessen

“The ‘Innovator’s Dilemma’ doesn’t exist at Apple,” he said, referring to Clay Christensen’s popular book about how big companies fail to anticipate the next…

— Adam Lashinsky

“great companies fail not because they want to avoid disruptive change but because they are reluctant to embrace promising new markets that might undermine…

— Brad Stone

I've really thought a lot about why other companies fail or succeed. I had to be a student of failure and find out why…

— Edwin Catmull

We want everyone who comes through to feel more entrepreneurial and start companies, even if they fail.

— Arvind Gupta

Most start-up companies fail and it is smart public policy to help entrepreneurs increase their odds of succeeding. But, the biggest loss to our…

— Eric Ries

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

— Clayton M. Christensen

Investors do not like losing money. They do not like companies that fail. They do not like entrepreneurs that fail. There is not a…

— Julie Wainwright