Buying Quote by Charlie Munger

“In the retail sector, using a higher level of efficiency to fund lower prices had long been Wal-Mart’s strategy. Costco”

— Greg Thain

As they grow, companies saturate their markets, become more complex and difficult to manage, and face larger and more entrenched competitors.

— Alex Berenson

Every time the good giants try to cut back on salt, sugar, fat calories, inevitably Wall Street raises its hand and is looking at…

— Michael Moss

Businesses grow and they don't change enough and they decline over time. Retailers do that on a bit of a faster cycle.

— Doug McMillon

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief…

— Steve Jobs

“When companies get big, they devote most of their care and feeding to the business that got them big. This is as it should…

— Eric Schmidt

When companies are jumping on the bandwagon to do plus size, they limit themselves.

— Ashley Nell Tipton

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…

— Tom Peters

“In February 2010, Ad Age reported that Wal-Mart had consolidated its stocked range of food bags from three brands, Ziploc, Glad and Hefty, down…

— Greg Thain

“Relative to manufacturers, retailers have huge fixed costs and miniscule margins: this makes their profits more susceptible to small changes in volume and pricing,…

— Greg Thain

So all of these companies that are going for the big growth, if it continues for any length of time, will outlast their resources…

— Yvon Chouinard

Sometimes people have a hard time believing that a company is intentionally trying to make itself smaller.

— Ted Waitt