Big mistake Quote by Cindy Alvarez

“If you look at big companies, only 1/3 of them will exist in 2 decades.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

“If you select companies on the basis of outcomes—whether success or failure—and then gather data that are biased by those outcomes, you’ll never know…

— Philip M. Rosenzweig

The consequences of overestimating a company and your ability to analyse it are greatly diminished when you're paying a lot less for it than…

— Whitney Tilson

In the commercial world, you have this problem that the amount of research you can do in a company is based on how well…

— Alan Kay

“Big corporations aren't always the bad guys; but it's the sensible way to bet.”

— Simon R. Green

“While this seems relatively straightforward, finding a good leading indicator, and experimenting to determine how it affects the future of the company, is hard…

— Alistair Croll

“No decision-making system is going to guarantee corporate success. The strategic decisions that corporations have to make are of mind-numbing complexity. But we know…

— James Surowiecki

Inaccurate analysis produces faulty insights and bad decisions - which lead to losing a tremendous amount of money.

— Stephen A. Schwarzman

“We assume that multimillion-dollar companies are turning big profits, but it’s rare to find a truly profitable business.”

— Mike Michalowicz

“By embracing decision-focused planning, companies will almost certainly find that the quantity and quality of their decisions will improve.”

— Harvard Business School Press

“Companies that cannot successfully answer what they do fail to then understand how they can continue to do it in the face of change.”

— David Amerland

“Companies are run by computers. Profit margins are sliced thin. And no manager dare raise his eyes from his accounts long enough to learn…

— Len Deighton