Quotes About Companies

CEO compensation at large companies grew sixfold between 1980 and 2003, roughly the same as the market-cap growth of these businesses.

Most public companies spend less than 2 percent of their annual budgets on R&D.

No, you don't get a chance to bargain. As an individual, you have to pay full freight." "Why is that? Why do I have to pay more than health insurance companies for the same service?" "This is how American hospital-based medicine works," Roger snapped. "I don't have time to explain it to you, nor is it my job.

When bad things unexpectedly happen, as they always do, or when serious errors in judgment occur, as they do more often than most of us wish to admit, accountable companies and their executives take action to control the damage and set a new course for achieving results.

Even though he terminated relations with this pair, he could not dispose of their sour investments so easily and thought the most prudent course was to buy total control of the companies and turn them around.

The soaring fortunes of the Standard companies made it seem as if the cagey Rockefeller had outwitted the country again.

It came about not because bankers were strong but because companies were still weak.

The emphasis placed by more and more companies on corporate social responsibility, symbolises the recognition that prosperity is best achieved in an inclusive society.

Companies, to date, have often used the excuse that they are only beholden to their shareholders, but we need shareholders to think of themselves as stakeholders in the well being of society as well.

I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.

Companies that support sports developmental programs in our communities should also be applauded.

Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network... They have more companies they can get money from.

These companies know that at their current size they're not going to be big enough to have the necessary capital, and they don't have enough spectrum to get to the third generation.

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

As it is in politics, so it is in private and public companies. Fast-tracked diversity may promote the people who were nearest to their destination already. And very often these are the most privileged people of any group – including their own.

It's very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted.

It's time to place the market within a moral framework - even if that means standing up to companies who make life harder for parents and families.

If you're struggling to get into big companies, you probably have a weak value proposition. Pure and simple.

Announcements of collaboration create a mirage of progress, without necessarily furthering the resolution of underlying issues," wrote scholar Evelyn Douek in a 2020 piece critiquing what she's dubbed "content cartels," or multi-stakeholder partnerships involving more than one company and, typically, state partners.

By the end of the decade, governments had grown savvy to the fact that companies readily responded to their takedown demands. In 2009, when Google issued its first transparency report documenting government requests for takedowns and user data, the company had received more than one thousand content removal requests in just a six-month period, a number that has only increased over time.

The final conclusion I've made is that we, the people, must decide what comes next. The events of the past decade have brought to the public fore a fairly widespread recognition that certain speech is beyond the pale, but in nearly every instance I have seen, regulatory and legislative proposals to restrict such speech take the wrong aim, punishing companies (and their workers) for errors, or for not moving fast enough, while failing to do anything to address the problems at the root.

Over the years, lawmakers in several countries have implored tech companies to go above and beyond the law to remove certain designated groups, in particular Hamas and Hezbollah—calls which have at times succeeded.43 Most recently, a 2019 letter from sixteen members of US Congress to Twitter to ban Hamas resulted in the company caving, after first pushing back, and banning accounts from both groups.44

Although I am certain, for example, that the US government should not dictate to companies who is a terrorist, and that widespread bans on women's partial nudity are discriminatory and harmful to the feminist cause, I still struggle to find the right answer to what we should do about suspected bots, or brigading, or how we should handle hateful speech that doesn't quite reach the level of incitement.

Algorithms are simply incapable of encapsulating human experience, regardless of what Silicon Valley would have us believe. And once companies have taken humans out of the loop and relinquished the reins to machines, there is no telling the sort of cultural norms they will eventually propagate in the future.