Top 1200 Big Companies Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

We compete with very large companies. These are companies like Walmart and Target and Kroger and some very successful digital companies like eBay and Etsy and Wayfair, and we don't have the ability to raise prices in any kind of unfettered way.

I brought one big question with me to Harvard. Why do smart companies fail?

If you look at the top 20 companies of the world, 19 of them are still brick-and-mortar companies. I have nothing against tech companies. What I am saying is that if you have a car manufacturer or an oil and gas manufacturer, you won't get the supply over the Net.

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.

I want millionaires and billionaires and Big Oil companies to pay their fair share.

When you think about Uber and Airbnb and the other companies that are turning things upside down, Uber isn't big 'cause they ran a lot of ads. They're big because someone took out their iPhone and said to their friend, watch this, and pressed a button and a car pulled up.

I suspect there's a lot of validity to the premise that big companies aren't going to attract entrepreneurial talent.

You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big and live big.

Working at a big company sucks - avoid it. Smaller companies are 10 times better for learning.

Big companies are almost always far too slow to actually kill a small competitor.

Even companies that do big business online struggle to be noticed by Google users. The Web, after all, is home to some 120 million Internet domains and tens of billions of indexed pages. But every company, big or small, can draw more Google traffic by using search-engine optimization - SEO, for short.

I think this notion that it's the population of the U.S. against the big companies is just wrong.

There are companies that are good at improving what they're already doing. There are companies that are good at extending what they're doing. And finally there are companies that are good at innovation. Every large company has to be able to do all three - improve, extend, and innovate - simultaneously.

Big companies such as Google and Facebook buy startups at ridiculously high prices - not for their products, but for their people.

In a slower economy, companies look for more value. The cloud provides this. So does Big Data.

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

The old ways still apply. You can still send tapes to record companies, and there are record companies, you know, there are one or two of the record companies do declare proudly that they listen to every single one that comes.

Most big companies work in stealth until they think they have a consumer product ready to go.

The oil companies, the big polluters, and the climate deniers are incredibly powerful. They will do everything they can to protect their profits.

We do all that [ represent companies], because we have a lot of research in Japanese companies, and that research educates investors around the world. It allows us to sell stocks and bonds in Japanese companies.

You know what happens in all the big companies and business in the world. If something doesn't work, you have to find a solution.

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?

My dream was to work for one of the big electronics companies like Sony or Panasonic.

In big companies projects have to scale and Lean Startup help us to do it

Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.

Their [American banks] big issue will be if they want to deal with the biggest companies, which are doing a lot of business overseas. How they do that is a big question. It's almost impossible to build a global investment bank from scratch. If they want to do that, they probably will have to do an acquisition.

People think that the big companies make songs and their artists just release it. It's not like that.

Making money never was my incentive. I just want to fight big companies.

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

All record companies want big-selling records, and my music is a little too raw for commercial success.

Corporate houses and big companies can be meaningful distribution channels for start-ups.

Geopolitical impact is going to become one of the big risks for companies which are global.

I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.

Every company that manufactures something is causing some damage either to the soil or water or air. Most companies treat these as externalities. But the growing movement of sustainability calls for companies to internalize these costs. Once companies do this, they will have a strong incentive to reduce their carbon footprint.

Many films you see in theaters are financed through outside sources. With big films, the studio will pay, hoping to reap the reward of their big bet. But with medium and small-sized films, outside production companies and financiers often foot the bill.

I am proud of the fact that the U.K. is an open trading country. I welcome inward investment such as that of Nissan, and the takeover of struggling British companies by foreign companies who turn them around, as in the case of Jaguar Land Rover. I also accept that job losses sometimes have to occur to restore failing companies to health.

Let's face it: Most companies in most industries have a kind of tunnel vision. They chase the same opportunities that everyone else is chasing, they miss the same opportunities that everyone else is missing. It's the companies that see a different game that win big. The most important question for innovators today is: What do you see that the competition doesn't see?

Pop was initially ignored as a moneymaker by the recording industry. In the seventies they were still relying on Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett for their big hits. You know, most of the budget for the record companies in those days went to the classical department - and those were big budget albums.

Big companies often use their leverage to take stakes in would-be suppliers, especially in the technology business.

I think that we can all learn from what smart companies are doing. My objective is to demonstrate what's possible, even during tough economic times. This is a period of great business dislocation, but that means it's also the time to try new things. This will be a challenge for existing companies. But the behaviors of smart companies can be learned.

Big media companies have lots of money and content, but they have no way to tap into a good base of users.

Big food companies have their priorities, which include selling cheap, unhealthy foods at high profits.

A rule against paid fast lanes would encourage additional capacity; a rule permitting paid fast lanes would simply encourage cable companies to create congested slow lanes on the Internet so they could make money by selling fast lanes to big companies.

I hear my own daughters talking about big companies polluting the environment, and then I realise they are talking about companies of which one I am running. But when I tell them to read the things we are doing, then they realise we are doing good things. But millennials are really a great lot.

The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.

We need to be fearful of companies that get so big that they can actually be directing policy.

With the Industrial Revolution, the production of food was delegated to big companies in order for women and men to be in the labour force, to come home, stick something in the oven, and eat. It became a big industry that does not have a love affair with food nor is really concerned about nurturing you or giving you the right nutrition.

The pay of many of our top executives in big hundred companies in the U.K. is outrageous and even obscene.

One of the big problems we had during the financial crisis was the intermingling of banks and holding companies and complex securities.

Back in the days of world wars, American companies didn't think twice about pitching in to help fight the enemy. Car companies helped bolster tanks, food companies created rations - sometimes they had to do it, but no one had to twist their arm.

This is a bit like big-game hunting. You look for companies of a certain size that deserve to be public.

Today's consumers are eager to become loyal fans of companies that respect purposeful capitalism. They are not opposed to companies making a profit; indeed, they may even be investors in these companies - but at the core, they want more empathic, enlightened corporations that seek a balance between profit and purpose.

The Big Five publishing companies are dinosaurs trying to survive in a post-meteor world. They won't.

Companies that hire employees..that are deeply passionate create companies that customers are really really passionate about, and those are the companies that have strong brands.

I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big.

The big companies are like, It's so good but we don't know how to market it.

European and American companies companies do create jobs for some people but what they're mainly going to do is make an already wealthy elite wealthier, and increase its greed and strong desire to hang on to power. So immediately and in the long run, these companies - harm the democratic process a great deal.

In the absence of big budgets, start-ups learned how to hack the system to build their companies.

The biggest opportunity for big companies has come by far in the digitization of internal processes.

We are always chasing after things that other companies won't touch. That is a big secret to our success.