Quotes About Companies

People work hard and companies make big profits, but employees don't see that they share in the wealth they help to create.

The life insurance industry is filled with good people who believe in their work and their companies, but who may never have challenged the assumptions underlying their efforts.

We have to be pretty tough with mortgage companies and say you have got to give people the chance to work out their debts, sort out future mortgages.

The record labels used to spend money on advertising, and social media has replaced that entirely - it's putting magazines out of business. It's put big companies into completely reinventing their strategies.

More and more, companies are realizing the value of their female consumers, and that's showing up in the female-specific products they're making, their marketing strategies, and even the feel of their companies internally.

Buy into good, well-researched companies and then wait. Let's call it a sit-on-your-hands investment strategy.

I started to invest in very-early-stage companies where, even though I wasn't the founder, I could help shape the early strategy and culture.

Power projects are differently placed to road projects. There's difference stress across different companies across different groups based on their leverage levels.

Companies know that children have disproportionate influence over their parents' purse strings.

There is a higher degree of operational excellence and rigor demanded of Stripe than of most companies.

I personally try to buy the best-quality items at the best price that do the least harm and from companies that are striving to do good - many of those companies are run by young entrepreneurs.

Well, you would have to say what is the criteria to determine the success of any merger? It would have to be that the companies are stronger financially, that they took market share, and they are on a very steady footing in terms of their performance.

It struck me that most businesses have less than 100 employees, but most payroll services were going after bigger companies.

Most large companies structure their affairs so that they minimize their tax payments. As long as you do it within the law, it's OK.

If we are going to be able to create a new economic vision, companies will need to rethink every aspect of their operations; their bottom lines, ownership structures, demands on financial returns, how they raise capital. For example, an ethical company would say it should only take a fair share of the planet's resources and campaign on this.

I think when companies are struggling, they don't want to talk to the press. The guys who write business books aren't interested in it because nobody wants to learn what it's like to be a mess, you want to learn how to be successful. That's slanted the whole thing quite a bit.

I think you can say a lot of evil behavior by companies is short-term optimization.

The most important thing for us is investing and making companies great, and then they have all the options they want, whether that's to go public or stay private.

Many of the ex-hippies who started companies like Apple, or the early online bulletin boards dedicated to organic food and following the Grateful Dead, were an odd combination of liberals and libertarians.

I tend to be a bit of a proselytiser for the importance of royal courts, but all politics - in fact every form of human organisation, and this is something that's so dreadful for all those brought up in the 60s - naturally reverts to monarchy. Newspapers have editors, companies have chief executives.

The work I have done in private practice has been assisting companies and organizations to work with an incredibly complex federal government. I'm proud of the impact I've had for these organizations, including organizations here in Pinellas County.

There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.

I think it's sort of an outrage that companies should have to hire firms to teach the college graduates they employ how to write.

Create a list of your intentions for your work. Then research available internships and/or companies that you are attracted to based on that personal North Star. Once that is clear, you begin outreach to people connected to industries you're passionate and/or curious about.