Quote by Roger Lowenstein Download Open image ““Hewlett-Packard is somewhat riskier than GE; Amazon.com, riskier still.”” — Roger Lowenstein ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
If you ask the average guy on the street to name five companies that have truly transformed themselves over the few decades, Hewlett-Packard would… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
We, as a company, take the most risks in pushing the boundaries on consumer expectations. — Reggie Fils-Aime Copy Share Image
When I worked at Microsoft, I got to go and visit a bunch of different companies. Probably a hundred different companies a year. You'd… — Gabe Newell Copy Share Image
“The big-ticket hardware folks invest the capital, take all the risks—which are huge—suffer the losses and the write-downs, and then let somebody else capture… — Adrian J. Slywotzky Copy Share Image
Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Walmart, I will regret it for the rest of my life. — Jack Ma Copy Share Image
“I’ve made billions of dollars of failures at Amazon.com. Literally. None of these things are fun, but they also don’t matter. What matters is… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
“A group of risk takers designed to deliver a unique product under conditions of extreme uncertainty and they never give up, No matter what!” — Bharat Kulkarni Copy Share Image
“Have you ever heard of anybody buying a vacuum cleaner at a vacuum cleaner store?" "One of the unsolved mysteries of the universe," Packard… — Carolyn Crane Copy Share Image
If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Wal-Mart, I will regret it for the rest of my life. — Jack Ma Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone is better than Amazon, and all the new generation of enterprise companies are basically copying them. — Aneel Bhusri Copy Share Image
In seventy years, Russia’s Communists had not succeeded in dealing markets such a telling blow as did its deadbeat capitalists. — Roger Lowenstein Copy Share Image
The modern spirit is a hesitant one. Spontaneity has given way to cautious legalisms, and the age of heroes has been superseded by a… — Roger Lowenstein Copy Share Image
“A year earlier, no company had been accorded more faith than Enron; by late November, none was trusted less. And so, a gasping gurgle,… — Roger Lowenstein Copy Share Image
“His talent sprang from his unrivaled independence of mind and ability to focus on his work and shut out the world, yet those same… — Roger Lowenstein Copy Share Image
Buffett's uncommon urge to chronicle made him a unique character in American life, not only a great capitalist but the Great Explainer of American… — Roger Lowenstein Copy Share Image
“The book is worth reading, in part because it is enjoyable to read of other people's folly, not to mention their avarice and stupidity."… — Roger Lowenstein Copy Share Image
Buffett's methodology was straightforward, and in that sense 'simple.' It was not simple in the sense of being easy to execute. Valuing companies such… — Roger Lowenstein Copy Share Image
Buffett was a billionaire who drove his own car, did his own taxes, and still lived in a home he had bought in 1958… — Roger Lowenstein Copy Share Image
Buffett’s genius was largely a genius of character—of patience, discipline, and rationality. — Roger Lowenstein Copy Share Image
“Bundy sternly tool his fellow endowment fund managers to task - not for being too bold, but for being insufficiently so: We have the… — Roger Lowenstein Copy Share Image
Buffett found it 'extraordinary' that academics studied such things. They studied what was measurable, rather than what was meaningful. 'As a friend [Charlie Munger]… — Roger Lowenstein Copy Share Image
