Companies Quotes · Page 6

Companies often become victims of their own mythologies.

— James Surowiecki

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

— Peter Thiel

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

— Marc Randolph

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

— N. Robert Hammer

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

— Dara Khosrowshahi

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

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

— Jim McKelvey

Federal laws against kickbacks bar pharmaceutical companies from directly giving money to patients for co-payments on the drugs they make.

— Alex Berenson

Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.

— Anonymous

The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their…

— Greg Ginn

Without global human rights, labor and environmental movements, companies would still be hiring 12-year-olds as a matter of course and poisoning our…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

Piracy is a huge, huge issue for all of these major content companies, and everybody has a different way of addressing it.

— Anne Sweeney

We worked personally with a lot of great VCs. They just work incredibly hard at supporting entrepreneurs and their companies.

— Marc Andreessen

Best, I'd advise, to give up all animal products obtained by cruel methods. There are some fine companies nowadays offering leather substitutes.

— Matthew Scully

“If you hang out with corrupt utility companies, you must expect to get caught up in their illegal activities!”

— Steven Magee

Yahoo is a battleship. If you've ever seen a battleship, they're gigantic, and Yahoo is gigantic in the terms of consumer Internet…

— Ross Levinsohn

The biggest threat to McDonald's lies within - and that is us as a company becoming complacent. There are a lot of…

— Charlie Bell

You could have a zillion Facebook followers. Those people don't buy records. It's about a hundred to one...Record companies, they don't have…

— Billy Corgan

Our criteria is that it's okay to invest in companies so long as they stop lobbying in Washington, stop exploring for new…

— Bill McKibben

Companies spend millions of dollars on firewalls, encryption, and secure access devices and it's money wasted because none of these measures address…

— Kevin Mitnick

Often in companies, you'll see tensions between sales and marketing. Sales people will want to give discounts to clients because they often…

— Charles Duhigg

Several companies have explicit policies against cronyism, with good reason. Hiring a family member simply for a relationship can be troubling and…

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

One of the biggest problems of 'In Search of Excellence' is that it focused on giant, publicly-traded companies. There are thousands upon…

— Tom Peters

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

— Maureen Chiquet

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

— Sam Altman

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

— Steve Martin

I think this notion that it's the population of the U.S. against the big companies is just wrong.

— Jeffrey R. Immelt

The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies.

— Dan Hill

Small companies tend to go out of business. Large ones don't.

— Aneel Bhusri

The way companies hang on to their marketshare is by being scared.

— Trip Hawkins

Time is on your side when you own shares of superior companies.

— Peter Lynch

Companies are the first to see the costs of climate change.

— Paul Polman

My dream was to work for one of the big electronics companies like Sony or Panasonic.

— Shuji Nakamura

“I don't waste food, water, money, time and talent.”

— Amit Kalantri

There's a handful of exceptionally good companies, but there's always one company that's the best.

— Chamath Palihapitiya

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 that are terrifying to a writer are companies like Amazon.

— Richard Flanagan

I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.

— E. G. Marshall