Basic research Quote by Robert X. Cringely

Big companies are looking closer term, and even the most technological companies spend less than 1% of sales on research. Startups have suffered the…

— Nicholas Negroponte

They really can’t afford to be contrarians. A major investment house can’t afford to do research for five customers who won’t generate a lot…

— Peter Cundill

If the research agenda reflects "market forces", the problems of the poor are likely to be even more neglected than they already are.

— Philip Kitcher

It's off the charts - and if you don't believe the scientists, ask the insurance industry, the people we pay to analyze risk in…

— Bill McKibben

If you don't invest in basic research at some stage you start losing the basis of applied research.

— Rolf-Dieter Heuer

It is the new and different that is always most vulnerable to market research.

— Malcolm Gladwell

It's possible to fund companies for $100,000 and find out rather quickly whether or not the idea they are pursuing has merit. Scientists now…

— Arvind Gupta

Research is subordinated (not to a long-term social benefit) but to an immediate commercial profit. Currently, disease (not health) is one of the major…

— Pierre Bosquet

“There's more money spent on research to cure symptoms than search for causes. Diet, everyday living health issues, corporate dumping of toxins into drinking…

— Christien Gholson

There is very little sense that anybody really knows what works or why. But that's not a shock. And I don't think market research…

— Charlie Huston

“Investing without research is like playing stud poker and never looking at the cards. For some reason the whole business”

— Peter Lynch

If you are able to look beyond near term trouble, you have an advantage over many professional investors

— Whitney Tilson