Big Companies Quotes

• It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, War, Investing Money

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.150, John Wiley & Sons

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• The real question is who will innovate.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Real, Innovation, Real Questions

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• Be creative. Innovate consistently on the little things that the big companies ignore. Little things often make big differences in business.

  Richard Branson

  Differences, Creative, Survival

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• Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.

  Haruki Murakami

  Jobs, Men, People

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• You need to ask yourself, ‘Where do you want to work: startups, mid-size or large companies?’ If you find yourself debating the ‘startup versus large company’ choice you’ve already chosen the big company. Entrepreneurship isn’t a career choice it’s a passion and obsession.

  Steve Blank

  Passion, Careers, Choices

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• The United States is like a big company, and we need a CEO to run it.

  David A. Siegel

  Running, United States, Needs

  "Why David Siegel Told His Employees to Vote for Romney". Interview with Susan Berfield, www.bloomberg.com. October 11, 2012.

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• Leading a big company means never allowing a company to take itself too seriously.

  Jack Welch

  Leadership, Mean, Bigs

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• I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.

  Sam Wyly

  Thinking, People, Rich

  "In S.E.C. Fraud Suit,Texas Brothers stand Firm" by David Segal, www.nytimes.com. August 22, 2010.

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• They have a policy in China for their big companies called "Go abroad." It's a rational thing for both the company and the country to say, "We want big, successful companies." Particularly in areas where they need it: agriculture, energy, technology. I think banking, too. One or two have bought a trading house. Some have already begun expanding around the world. Of course they're going to have those ambitions. Why wouldn't they? They're just doing it methodically. It's a logical strategy and, well-executed, they will succeed.

  Jamie Dimon

  Country, Ambition, Successful

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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• It's pretty rare to have CEOs or high level executives at big companies who are social activists. They tend not to be drawn to those areas of life.

  Jerry Greenfield

  Levels, Social, Bigs

  "Peace, love and fairtrade ice-cream" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. June 01, 2012.

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• Working for a big company is, I believe, much risker than it looks.

  Marc Andreessen

  Believe, Looks, Bigs

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• I don't think you're going to have one bank. Big companies aren't going to give us all their business. So they can pick and choose - by product, by country, whatever. We have major competition across every product in every place we operate.

  Jamie Dimon

  Country, Thinking, Giving

  "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

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• The big corporations and the big companies turned musicians into factory workers on an assembly line.

  Ray Davies

  Rock And Roll, Lines, Corporations

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• Startups allow technologists and scientists to take risks and change plans in a way that would be frowned upon in a big company. Having said that, big companies will play a key role in certain areas and in partnerships with little companies. Each has its strengths.

  Vinod Khosla

  Keys, Play, Risk

  "Power Q&A: Vinod Khosla". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2008.

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• I'm not the cool thing, and I'm not going to be the cool thing for a really long time, and it isn't like I'm not the cool thing and I sell 3,000,000 records every time. I'm not the cool thing, and I barely sell 150,000 records, if that, ever. So I'm obviously working really hard to sustain myself. I'm actually a target to be dropped, because that's just not enough records for a big company.

  Ryan Adams

  Long, Target, Records

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2004.

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• When I look at efforts to create change in big companies over the past 10 years, I have to say that there's enough evidence of success to say that change is possible - and enough evidence of failure to say that it isn't likely. Both of those lessons are important.

  Peter Senge

  Past, Years, Effort

  "Learning for a Change". Interview with Alan M. Weber, www.fastcompany.com. April 30, 1999.

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• I started noticing a lot of big companies are bored with ads; they feel sort of lost in the advertising world. They're not into magazines anymore.

  Gavin McInnes

  Bored, Magazines, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What I'd like to see is a private [healthcare] system without the artificial lines around every state. I have a big company with thousands and thousands of employees. And if I'm negotiating in New York or in New Jersey or in California, I have like one bidder. Nobody can bid.Because the insurance companies are making a fortune because they have control of the politicians.

  Donald Trump

  New York, California, Lines

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• When you're in a start-up, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not. Each is 10 percent of the company. So why wouldn't you take as much time as necessary to find all the A players? If three were not so great, why would you want a company where 30 percent of your people are not so great? A small company depends on great people much more than a big company does.

  Steve Jobs

  Player, People, Doe

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• To get a big company moving fast, especially on a many-headed opportunity like the Internet, you have to have hundreds of people participating and coming up with ideas.

  Bill Gates

  Moving, Opportunity, Ideas

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.75, Hachette UK

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• In general though, if you look at the track record of pivots, they don't become big companies.

  Sam Altman

  Track, Looks, Records

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• Why is it that big companies fail when the technology changes? It happens in every industry, so what's the pattern? What are they all doing wrong?

  Jesse Schell

  Technology, Patterns, Failing

  "Jesse Schell: Xbox, PlayStation and the Innovator's Dilemma". Interview with Matthew Handrahan, www.gamesindustry.biz. August 5, 2013.

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• Startups are the engines of exponential growth, manifesting the power of innovation. Several big companies today are startups of yesterday. They were born with a spirit of enterprise and adventure kept alive due to hardwork and perseverance and today have become shining beacons of innovation.

  Narendra Modi

  Perseverance, Adventure, Technology

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• Artists have so much more control of their futures - they don't need to rely so much on major labels or big companies to help them. You have artists like Skrillex that can dominate so much that he gets 5 Grammy nominees, and he's clearly an underground artist.

  Steve Aoki

  Artist, Needs, Labels

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• As a first time director it's interesting, but not all that different from what I did before. A lot of parts of this job seem to be very similar to running a big company.

  Timothy Miller

  Running, Jobs, Interesting

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