Quotes About Companies

Not only do fossil fuel companies receive $775 billion to $1 trillion in annual global subsidies, but they pay nothing for the privilege of treating our shared atmosphere as a free waste dump—a fact that has been described by the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change as "the greatest market failure the world has ever seen.

Not all companies have a Purpose—but enduringly successful ones do. Purpose

Purpose is a call to action. But in order to hear that call and respond to it, we need to understand the distractions that get in the way of a serious discussion of an organization's Purpose. And in many companies, that starts with the most persuasive distraction: the maximization of profit. PURPOSE

competition between companies is at least in part a competition between different moral ideas.

Many of the best and most conspicuous examples of strategic principles come from companies that were founded on them, companies such as eBay, Dell, Vanguard, Southwest Airlines, and Wal-Mart ("Low prices, every day"). The founders of those companies espoused a clear guiding principle that summarized the essence of what would become a full-blown business strategy.

The investment perspective on resource scarcity is conceptually straightforward: We need to price the risks correctly, and we need to look for investment opportunities in companies that provide solutions.

Unless a company has an economic moat protecting its business, competition will soon arrive on its doorstep and eat away at its profits. Wall Street is littered with the dead husks of companies that went from hero to zero in a heartbeat.

you can simply buy wonderful companies at reasonable prices, and let those companies compound cash over long periods of time. Surprisingly, there aren't all that many money managers who follow this strategy, even though it's the one used by some of the world's most successful investors. (Warren Buffett is the best-known.)

When customers are asked to define relationship in a business situation, they discuss things such as how a salesperson can bring value to their companies.

If the government was going to continue to act as if we didn't exist, if the medical establishment was prone to gridlock over funds, if the drug companies were waiting till the curve got high enough for profit, then we would find our own way.

Companies have three responsibilities: 1) make a profit, 2) satisfy employees, and 3) be socially responsible.

Who had actually been first would never now be known. Both governments had claimed them: the wealth contained in the lonely metal chunks would be a heady boost for the planet whose companies could mine and refine such plentiful ore.