Quotes About Companies

Others active in this sector include Royal Gold (RGLD), Sandstorm Gold (SAND), and Osisko Gold Royalties (OR).

It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up.

My opinion is that the only two computer companies that are software-driven are Apple and NeXT, and I wonder about Apple.

In most cases, it's slight and often unintentional gaps in integrity that hold leaders, their employees, and their companies back. Despite their potential, these leaders harm their employees and themselves.

When you're going into companies and you're secret filming, I didn't realise the amount of protection that you need legally before you can do just the slightest thing.

A rule against paid fast lanes would encourage additional capacity; a rule permitting paid fast lanes would simply encourage cable companies to create congested slow lanes on the Internet so they could make money by selling fast lanes to big companies.

In a slower economy, companies look for more value. The cloud provides this. So does Big Data.

I'm conscious of what bands we tour with and what companies I want to be associated with, even in the small things: if I'm going to buy stage makeup, I want to get it from companies run by women. Those are little changes that will make a difference.

People and companies make mistakes. I guarantee we'll make a mistake next quarter. So what? Businesses make mistakes. Hopefully smaller, and fewer.

The cloud removes the barriers to entry associated with traditional IT investments - meaning even the smallest companies can benefit from enterprise-class services.

Most smart companies should make themselves media companies. That means they put out their own information.

Mostly I've never let record companies become involved with my music, which was a very smart thing that my first manager Dave Robinson did, to keep them out of it.

I think there's a point to regulating, because there are snake oil companies.

I've learned a lot about business from snowboarding: how companies run, how the game works.

ICG wasn't an index fund so much as a collection of venture-capital investments focused on so-called business-to-business Internet companies.

Bot pharmacists." Cay spits out the words. "The companies have so much trouble with drug robberies and theft in the Zone they can't get anyone else to work the counters. That one's good enough at its job of filling and delivering prescriptions in its database, but out of its comfort zone when it comes to anything else.

Citizen journalism and even our ethnic press could be harmed by big companies deciding where we can get our news.

When companies are successful or not successful, they almost immediately jump to the wrong conclusions about how they got there or why they got there.

One of the key things is, when you look at semiconductor companies, it's all about experience.

would announce that NeXT was bringing the world a breakthrough. But the customers didn't follow and NeXT wasn't close to making a profit, which companies must do to thrive and grow. At a board meeting in spring 1991, company officials delivered more bad news about poor results. Investor Ross Perot interrupted the presentation with a blunt assessment: "So what you're telling me is the cockpit's on fire and the plane's in a tailspin.

Among the freest women were the singers and actresses of travelling companies, the most capable groups attached for long periods to one court or another, as in Mantua and Ferrara.

Having grown rapidly, many PC software companies were stretched to the limit simply building their programs. With customers clamoring for new products, testing inevitably had to take a backseat. In addition, though it was eroding, there remained a pejorative attitude toward testing: "Let the customer test the program." That saved the builder money and time, but it frustrated buyers, who came to view the first release of a program as a gamble. Microsoft

Sadly, senescent companies can't be euthanized. Instead, semi-comatose, they hang on, closing facilities, killing brands, throttling R&D, shedding staff, merging with lethargic rivals, and lobbying for regulatory help. These are "treadmill companies," and there are more of them than you think.

As long as companies continue to attack their execution problems primarily or solely with structural or motivational initiatives, they will continue to fail. As we've seen, they may enjoy short-term results, but they will inevitably slip back into old habits because they won't have addressed the root causes of failure.