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- The most important and visible outcropping of the action bias in excellent companies is their willingness to try things out, to experiment. If you wait…
- Champions are pioneers, and pioneers get shot at. The companies that get the most from champions, therefore, are those that have rich support network so…
- My half-baked reading of history is that we continue to go through these waves of entrepreneurial explosion followed by merger mania and consolidation. Out of…
- Companies have got to learn to eat change for breakfast.
- The principal reason, invariably, most "successful" giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool…
- The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible...
- Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.
- Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding.…
- We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide…
- Mittelstand companies are incredibly focused and almost always family-run. The young men and women go through the apprenticeship system and learn that the goal is…
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