Large Companies Quotes

• Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

  J. Paul Getty

  Work, Sitting Still, Getting High

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• Personalization is based on a bargain. In exchange for the service of filtering, you hand large companies an enormous amount of data about your daily life--much of whic you might not trust your friends with.

  Eli Pariser

  Hands, Data, Might

  Eli Pariser (2011). “The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think”, p.19, Penguin

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• My goal was livelihood. We don't use that word often enough. If I could give one piece of advice to anyone it's don't obsess with this notion that you have to turn everything you do into a business, because that ends up being a small version of a large company. But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.

  Anita Roddick

  Skills, Giving, Goal

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• Large companies are not going to disappear. Multinational companies with tens of thousands of employees are not going to disappear. In fact, many of them are getting larger because they can benefit from economies of scale.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Mind, Benefits

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• Large companies and government agencies have a lot to protect and therefore are not willing to take big risks. A large company taking a risk can threaten its stock price. A government agency taking a risk can threaten congressional investigation.

  Peter Diamandis

  Agency, Government, Risk

  "Why Billion-Dollar, 100-Year-Old Companies DIE" by Peter Diamandis, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 19, 2013.

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• Entrepreneurs have the flexibility and the ability to do things that large companies simply cannot. Could a large company pull off a trick like Amyris, going from anti-malaria medicine to next-generation fuel?

  Vinod Khosla

  Medicine, Entrepreneur, Malaria

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

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• Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.

  Natalie Merchant

  Worry, Be True To Yourself, Profit

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• The typical large company has a compensation committee, They don't look for Dobermans on that committee, they look for chihuahuas.

  Warren Buffett

  Typical, Looks, Dobermans

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• Large companies are very good at solving extremely complex problems in a globally optimal way.

  Thomas Pogge

  Way, Problem, Very Good

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Regardless of whether you are an entrepreneur or whether you are an employee of a large company, the absolute prerequisite is that you must know your stuff. There is no substitute for this.

  Fred C. Koch

  Entrepreneur, Stuff, Substitutes

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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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• Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large companies.

  Sam Altman

  Moving, Speed, Advantage

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• I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies.

  Peter Lynch

  Real, Thinking, Investing

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• I never took classic business classes in college, so I don't have the background that any of the people running large companies have.

  Howard Schultz

  Running, College, Class

  "Howard Schultz Talks To Los Angeles Entrepreneurs About Starbucks, His New Book, And The American Dream". Interview with Nicole Larson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 07, 2011.

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• We have always wanted Google to be a company that is deserving of great love. But we recognize this is an ambitious goal because most large companies are not well-loved, or even seemingly set up with that in mind. We're lucky to have a very direct relationship with our users, which creates a strong incentive for us to do the right thing .

  Larry Page

  Love, Strong, Ambition

  "Google Beats Out Apple, Facebook, And Twitter For Most Popular Tech Brand: Poll" By Courteney Palis, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2012.

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• Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  Party, Views, Political

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• When large companies take on risk, then they impose risks on the rest of the system. And these are systemic risks and these systemic risks we never used to think were really that important, but as soon as we recognize how the financial sector - the risks the financial sector takes on can impact the entire global economy, we realize that those risks needed to be controlled for the social good.

  Robert F. Engle

  Thinking, Impact, Risk

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It's more than unsettling to realize there are large companies out there developing backdoors, exploits and trojans.

  Mikko Hypponen

  Realizing, Trojans, Company

  "Three types of online attack (About the speaker)". TEDxBrussels Talk, www.ted.com. November 2011.

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• It's good to buy a large company with fine businesses when the price is beaten down over worry about one problem.

  Henry Earl Singleton

  Worry, Problem, Fine

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• The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years.

  Bill Gates

  Years, Track, Design

  "MS-DOS Turns 30: PCMag's Original Interview With Bill Gates". Interview with David Bunnell, www.pcmag.com. July 27, 2011.

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• MBA programs are underwritten by large companies and they succeed at producing future employees of large companies. In that regard, they are doing exactly what they are supposed to be doing.

  Lewis Schiff

  Mba Programs, Succeed, Employee

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• If the question is, how do we best produce business people who can succeed in the post-Great Recession era, then I think the MBA programs and their connection to large companies remains intact but it's not the path to a "Business Brilliant" life. It's a path to a middle-class existence marked by large stretches of security and comfort with occasional eruptions that you're probably ill-prepared to handle. Do I sound too cynical?

  Lewis Schiff

  Thinking, Mba, Class

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• If you are a large company and you want to do something unique, you almost by definition have to tap onto the core business in some way. Otherwise you are going into a naked fight against startups, and that's just a tough place to be.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Fighting, Unique, Naked

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• One of the biggest mistakes large companies make is creating innovation teams that mirror all the functions of the core business. Those teams make no progress because they spent forever updating each other on what they are doing versus really crushing the most critical problems they need to address.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Crush, Mistake, Team

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The need to be thoughtful about experiment design is particularly acute within large companies, since some of the behaviors, such as having small teams and tapping into low-cost resources to maximize flexibility, won't come naturally to many people inside huge companies.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Team, Thoughtful, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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