Successful Company Quotes

• If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

  Larry Page

  Inspiring, Beach, Long

  "Meet The Google Guys". Interview with Adi Ignatius, content.time.com. February 12, 2006.

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• Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success.

  Herman Cain

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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• Quality is the one absolutely necessary ingredient of all the most successful companies in the world.

  Frank Perdue

  Successful, Quality, World

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• We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

  James E. Burke

  Inspirational, Success, Business

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• Everybody likes to win. I don't care if you work for a small plumbing company or the most successful company in the world. There's a special flavor to winning.

  Marcelo Claure

  Successful, Winning, Special

  "The Plan to Fix Sprint". Interview with Ryan Knutson, www.wsj.com. October 25, 2015.

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• I think a successful company is one where everybody owns the same mission. Out of necessity, we divide ourselves up into discipline groups. But the goal when you are actually doing the work is to somehow forget what discipline group you are in and come together. So in that sense, nobody should own user experience; everybody should own it.

  Donald A. Norman

  Successful, Thinking, Discipline

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• No successful company has had ever been the product of just one person.

  Caterina Fake

  Successful, Company, Persons

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• The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld.

  Bill Gates

  Successful, Long, Add

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• The capacity to creatively improvise is an important factor that differentiates successful companies - or teams - from those that are not successful.

  John Kao

  Team, Successful, Important

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Building a successful company (or living a happy life, for that matter) is not about embracing someone else's philosophy, but staying true to your own beliefs about the world and learning from the mistakes you make along the way.

  Ben Parr

  Philosophy, Mistake, Successful

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To survive in modern times, a company must have an organizational structure that accepts change as its basic premise, lets tribal customs thrive, and fosters a power that is derived from respect, not rules. In other words, the successful companies will be the ones that put quality of life first. Do this and the rest - quality of product, productivity of workers, profits for all - will follow.

  Ricardo Semler

  Successful, Quality, Firsts

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• There's only one thing that all the successful companies in the world have in common: None was started by one person.

  Ernesto Sirolli

  Motivation, Inspiration, Successful

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• My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.

  Rachel Zoe

  Dad, Father, Successful

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• The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

  Ralph Abernathy

  Change, Successful, Competition

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• We've seen a lot of data at YC now, and the most successful companies and the ones where the investors do the best... end up giving a lot of stock out to employees- year after year after year.

  Sam Altman

  Successful, Data, Years

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• Being an entrepreneur does require commitment. It is hard work, but it is also highly rewarding. So when you can look back and see yourself building a successful company.

  Anousheh Ansari

  Hard Work, Commitment, Successful

  Source: www.ncwit.org

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• I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy.

  Naveen Jain

  Successful, Moon, Skills

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• I'm speaking to you from Silicon Valley, where some of the most prominent and successful companies have built their businesses by lulling their customers into complacency about their personal information. They're gobbling up everything they can learn about you and trying to monetize it. We think that's wrong. And it's not the kind of company that Apple wants to be.

  Tim Cook

  Successful, Thinking, Apples

  "Apple boss delivers strongest attack yet on Facebook and Google over privacy" by Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2015.

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• In a large successful company where your power base as CEO isn't all that secure, it's hard for a CEO to pursue a truly disruptive strategy.

  Clayton Christensen

  Successful, Strategy, Ceo

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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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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• If you look at the CEOs of some the most successful companies in the world like IKEA, they never fly first class. They always go economy.

  Gene Simmons

  Successful, Class, Ikea

  "Gene Simmons: Rock 'n' Roll Entrepreneur". Interview with Stacy Perman, www.bloomberg.com. September 5, 2008.

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• He's a family man and a businessman. He spent his career building successful companies. Then, he saved the 2002 Olympics and brought pride to our nation. As governor, he balanced the budget, cut taxes, and created jobs. The president America needs is Mitt Romney!

  Reince Priebus

  Jobs, Pride, Cutting

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• I’ve seen how important this concept is in business. To be truly successful, companies need to have a corporate mission that is bigger than making a profit. We try to follow that at salesforce.com, where we give 1% of our equity, 1% of our profits, and 1% of our employees’ time to the community. By integrating philanthropy into our business model our employees feel that they do much more than just work at our company. By sharing a common and important mission, we are united and focused, and have found a secret weapon that ensures we always win.

  Marc Benioff

  Philosophy, Successful, Winning

  Sonshi.com Interview, www.sonshi.com.

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• You get the idea. Every business, like a painting, operates according to its own rules. There are many ways to run a successful company. What works once may never work again. What everyone tells you never to do may just work, once. There are no rules. You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over, and it's because you fall over that you learn to save yourself from falling over. It's the greatest thrill in the world and it runs away screaming at the first sight of bullet points.

  Richard Branson

  Running, Fall, Successful

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• You can divide our industry into two kinds of people: those who want to go work for a company to make it successful, and those who want to go work for a successful company.

  Jamie Zawinski

  Inspirational, Successful, Two

  "Opinion: Who invited the pirates to the Linux party?" by J.S. Kelly, www.cnn.com. February 03, 2000.

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