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Company 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 being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.
- 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.
- Steve Jobs was rare: a C.E.O. who actually had a huge impact on his company's fortunes. Contrary to corporate mythology, most C.E.O.s could be easily…
- 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 someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he can - including paying me off - to get…
- 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…
- If you work for Google or Apple, stock options give you a chance to share in the increasing value of the company. In the N.F.L.,…
- 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…
- Nike used to be known as Blue Ribbon Sports. What's now Sara Lee used to be Consolidated Foods. And Exxon was once Standard Oil Company…
- 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…
- There are certainly valid reasons for taking a company private, and it's also possible that C.E.O.s perform better when monitored by a small number of…
- 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…
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- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with… — Saint Augustine
- My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what… — Jane Austen
- What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no,… — Teresa of Avila
- Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas. — Joe Baca
- Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. — Russell Baker
- Jesus isn't a logo, I'm not promoting some company, some brand. I'm just professing my faith. — Stephen Baldwin
- We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it… — Dave Barry
- I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I… — Drew Barrymore
- It's not just about acting. I love film, I'm a director now, I love writing, I love producing, I love having a… — Drew Barrymore