Quotes About Companies

CEOS who are neurotic impostors are also likely to become addicted to consulting companies.

Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies.

Nine times out of ten, companies fail because they don't set up a large enough sales force and thus have no way to collect enough revenue.

If you cannot create, then buy a company that can. In particular, the large corporations buy small, personnally owned companies that have made breakthroughs in particular areas. They are buying creativity, though the immediate rush this produces doesn't last long. Once integrated into an administrative atmosphere, the creativity is sucked out of them. (IV - From Managers and Speculators to Growth)

Do any of the private companies send reps or IT guys here?

As the Big Shift takes hold, companies are no longer places that exist to drive down costs by getting increasingly bigger. They're places that support and organize talented individuals to get better faster by working with others. The rationale of the firm shifts from scalable efficiency to scalable learning—the ability to improve performance more rapidly and learn faster by effectively integrating more and more participants distributed across traditional institutional boundaries.

The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.

My obligation right now is to do well for myself, my family, my employees, for my companies. And that's what I do.

Italy is famous for fashion, food, Ferrari, and furniture - furniture was a segment where the companies in the high end are all small.

You have a lot more freedom to explore and improvise in a Canadian film, which you might not have when there's 13 different production companies that all have serious equity investments.

To summarize the soy-food situation: soy companies produce about 25 billion pounds of meal and oil every year for your use, much of it federally subsidized, that they are eager to get you to buy.

We realized that what too often comes from a conventional user-centered innovation process, even in partnership with some of the greatest companies on earth, is unicorns: ideas that are beautiful to think about and highly interesting, but that will never appear in the marketplace or your backyard, because they're conceived in blinkered isolation from the myriad of things that actually determine what makes it to market and what doesn't.

Beer must be made by food companies. It makes you wander the streets at 3 am looking for things to eat. "What's that, is it moving, get it!! It's a nun! Fry her!! Fry her!"

The only companies that innovate are those who believe that innovation is vital for their future.

In the future the optimal form of industrial organization will be neither small companies nor large ones but network structures that share the advantages of both.

In a climate where people don't understand the numbers, newspapers, campaigners, companies, and politicians can get away with murder

I see a future where American companies lead the world in the production of hybrid-plug in cars and electric vehicles.

Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.

I actually do think you're seeing this trend towards organizations just caring more about their brand and engaging. And so I think Home Depot will want to humanize itself. I think that's a lot of why companies are starting blogs, are just giving more insight into what's going on with them.

For the first time we're allowing developers who don't work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That's a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.

Does design pay off? The Design Management Institute partnered with Motiv Strategies to measure the return on design investment where it counts—in stock values. Over a 10-year period, a $10,000 investment in design-centric companies would have yielded returns 228 percent greater than the same investment in the S&P 500. And this is only an average.

I know. Being evil is great. Who else besides super-villains and fortune five hundred companies can get away with not paying taxes?

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

It is strange to me that most people assume companies will be imperfect (as they are), but they assume that government agencies will be perfect, which they are not.