Great Company Quotes - Page 2

• Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength.

  Ryan Holiday

  Weakness, Way, Individual

  Ryan Holiday (2014). “The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph”, p.10, Penguin

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• The word 'ego' is very important. The ego is an important element of being human, and of being creative. We need that ego in order to give us a confidence of doing what we're doing. Ego pushes us into the creative world in order to create for something more. I think that a great company of actors, they all have egos, very strong egos, but they're all prepared to share together in order to achieve something even better than that.

  George Ogilvie

  Strong, Thinking, Order

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• A tremendous chief executive in a small market will never be great. All great companies start with great markets.

  Douglas Leone

  Chief Executives, Chiefs, Company

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• As the company grows and about this 25 or so employee size, your main job shifts from building a great product to building a great company.

  Sam Altman

  Jobs, Size, Building

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• I consistently run into young adults who have quickly turned away from traditional jobs at great companies to try their hand at a start-up. I believe that some of this stems from the desire to strike it big like Mark Zuckerberg, but I also believe it is because starting a company has become far cooler than working in one.

  Maynard Webb

  Running, Jobs, Believe

  "There’s Something Happening Here: Entrepreneurship and the Decline of Corporate Appeal" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 16, 2011.

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• Good-to-great companies set their goals and strategies based on understanding; comparison companies set their goals and strategies based on bravado.

  James C. Collins

  Goal, Understanding, Good To Great

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• One of the factors that make great companies so great is that they have processes that allow them to solve difficult problems again and again. These processes have developed over time as teams have successfully wrestled with a certain type of challenge. Eventually, people begin to say, "This is just how we do something around here." The problem develops when that team then has to solve a very different set of challenges. The processes that are such strengths can be crushing liabilities.

  Clayton Christensen

  Crush, Team, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Good companies will meet needs; great companies will create markets.

  Philip Kotler

  Needs, Good Company, Company

  "The 75 Greatest Management Decisions Ever Made". Book by Stuart Crainer, 2002.

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• All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Running, Ghouls, Guy

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• One of the great strengths of American culture is this empowerment of individual, is the individual being able to be entrepreneurial, create new things. But you create a whole group of people to make great companies. It's employees and investors and customers and partners. The fabric of society, of a network of relations, is key to being successful.

  Reid Hoffman

  Successful, People, Empowerment

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Some representatives of monopolistic capitalism, sensing this evil in their system, have tried to silence criticism by pointing to the diffused ownership in the great corporations. They advertise, "No one owns more than 4 percent of the stock of this great company." Or they print lists of stockholders, showing that these include farmers, schoolteachers, baseball players, taxi drivers, and even babies.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Baseball, Baby, Player

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• The Chinese are not stupid people. They're very smart people. They told me very, very distinctly that they cannot believe how stupid our representatives are in the United States. They cannot believe that they can continue to take all our jobs - you know, through the manipulation of the currency, of their currency, they make it almost impossible for our great companies to compete.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Smart, Stupid

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I am confident that partnering my Dollywood Company with a great company like Gaylord will create something truly special.

  Dolly Parton

  Special, Company, Partnering

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• Forget luxury; as a great company you have to keep evolving.

  Angela Ahrendts

  Luxury, Forget, Evolve

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• You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training. There's no such thing as an overnight opera sensation. Great law firms or design companies don't spring up overnight... Every great company, every great brand, and every great career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Spring, Winning

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• As president, I could run the Trump organization, great, great company, and I could run the company - the country. I'd do a very good job, but I don't want to do that.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Running, Jobs

  "Watch: Trump Press Conference at Trump Tower", www.breitbart.com. January 11, 2017.

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• This is our moment of reckoning as a society and as a civilization itself. I didn't need to do this [run for presidency], folks, believe me — believe me. I built a great company and I had a wonderful life. I could have enjoyed the fruits and benefits of years of successful business deals and businesses for myself and my family. Instead of going through this absolute horror show of lies, deceptions, malicious attacks — who would have thought? I'm doing it because this country has given me so much, and I feel so strongly that it's my turn to give back to the country that I love.

  Donald Trump

  Running, Country, Lying

  Donald Trump's Speech Responding To Assault Accusations, www.npr.org. October 13, 2016.

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• The top 25 at every company really set the tone. Everyone watches them. They need to be present and focused. No slackers at the top. They need to meet in combination every recruit. They need to meet them on the first day. They need to teach by example. This is the lesson that great companies teach.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Example, Watches, Needs

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• All great companies have spirit and culture. Mean spirited returns mean spirit.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Mean, Culture, Return

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.

  Ben Horowitz

  Investment, Stage, Valuation

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• I built a net worth of more than $10 billion. I have a great, great company. I employ thousands of people. And I'm very proud of the job I did.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, People, Proud

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I just spent a lot of time on 'ER' for that eight years. I also started working when I was 16, so by the time I left 'ER,' I was 40 years old, I had this incredible experience, my wife had this great company, we had four kids, it was like, 'Let's go to New York and live for a while and make that the priority.'

  Anthony Edwards

  New York, Kids, Eight

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• A market downturn, doesn't bother us. For us and our long term investors, it is an opportunity to increase our ownership of great companies with great management at good prices. Only for short term investors and market timers is a correction not an opportunity.

  Warren Buffett

  Opportunity, Long, Management

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• Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.

  Jonathan Swift

  Believe, Character, Pride

  Jonathan Swift (1856). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.305

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• I couldn't have built the great companies I've built if I didn't have a strong temperament. And she's got a weak temperament. She [Hillary Clinton ] is a weak person.

  Donald Trump

  Strong, Weak, Clinton

  Source: townhall.com

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