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Companies Quotes by James Surowiecki
- Companies often become victims of their own mythologies.
- Companies, like people, don't much like to change.
- The desire for reinvention seems to arise most often when companies hear the siren call of synergy and start to expand beyond their core businesses.
- If companies tell us more, insider trading will be worth less.
- If private-equity firms are as good at remaking companies as they claim, they don't need tax loopholes to make money.
- The stock market has an insidious effect on C.E.O.s' moods, because of its impact not just on their companies but on their own bank accounts.
- Companies have long gathered data to break down their customer base into specific segments. Now political parties have become adept at micro-targeting, too, using data…
- Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but for the most…
- Disasters redistribute money from taxpayers to construction workers, from insurance companies to homeowners, and even from those who once lived in the destroyed city to…
- Discussions of health care in the U.S. usually focus on insurance companies, but, whatever their problems, they're not the main driver of health-care inflation: providers…
- If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market were…
- In a world where companies increasingly know about their business in real time, it makes no sense that public reporting mostly follows the old quarterly…
- In the days when corporate downsizing was all the rage, Wall Street took a lot of flak for judging companies too harshly and setting the…
- In the struggle between capital and labor, more often than not capital has won, because the real source of value for most companies has historically…
- Life insurance became popular only when insurance companies stopped emphasizing it as a good investment and sold it instead as a symbolic commitment by fathers…
- Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in…
- To be sure, if you watch CNBC all day long you'll pick up some interesting news about particular companies and the economy as a whole.…
- What an economy really wants, after all, is not more investment per se but better investment. It wants capital to flow to companies that will…
More Companies Quotes
- Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas. — Joe Baca
- It's all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and movie studios.… — John Belushi
- Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other.… — Donald Berwick
- I don't think that old-fashioned idea of record companies exists any more. — Sophie Ellis Bextor
- There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We… — Jeff Bezos
- On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes:… — Jeff Bezos
- Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins,… — Jeff Bezos
- You know we're going to control the insurance companies. — Joe Biden
- Well, I'm telling them two things. One is that, look, this is going to be something when the American people realize -… — Joe Biden
- Folks, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks, you sacrificed… — Joe Biden
- Those record companies don't know what's happening at all. — Ritchie Blackmore
- Unemployment in America today is too high. And part of the reason, unfortunately, is that many companies cannot fill the high-skilled jobs… — Michael Bloomberg