Top 1200 Big Companies Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.

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.

People work hard and companies make big profits, but employees don't see that they share in the wealth they help to create.

One of the best investors around, Joel Greenblatt, has written a popular, charming and funny book about investing in great companies at low P/E multiples. To simplify an already simple book, great companies are generally measured as companies that can generate lots of profit without requiring a lot of capital. This means that they have high ROEs.

I delivered lectures, and I was also a consultant for international companies in finance, both private equity and big venture capital funds.

I think it's a competitive advantage that both Amazon and Google and other tech companies have over a lot of their counterparts. They take big risks and are pioneering new markets with the promise of big rewards. It's why Amazon is kind of reliably starting new businesses and opening kind of new frontiers.

Mom-and-pop businesses have the same issues as the Fortune 500. The difference is that big companies spend millions on consultants to fix them.

I've been part of founding three companies that have gone public. It doesn't seem like a big number, but it's actually a lot.

I never imagined I'd be working with government, or military or politicians or big companies. None of this stuff I'm doing was on any business plan anywhere ever.

I'm going to start a lot of companies. These are not sham companies. These are great businesses.

If we don't do our job well, then there's no doubt that big, strong companies like Amazon will look into whether they can do better themselves.

The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.

I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.

Taxing companies, particularly successful multinational companies, is one of the most progressive forms of taxation.

I'm not a corporate machine. I'm not Lady Gaga, I'm not Madonna, I don't have a million dollars behind me and big giant record companies. I am an organic artist.

Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big.

Companies that have been built and operated for a long time are the most successful companies.

I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.

Normally, Indian companies follow the trend set by companies abroad. There is usually a long lag period.

I think that's actually what's missing from government, for the most part. We've got a lot of policy people, but we have no technologists, even though technology is such a big part of our lives. It's just amazing, because even these big Silicon Valley companies, the masters of the universe or whatever, haven't engaged with Washington until recently. They're still playing catch-up.

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.

Most companies don't want their data co-mingled with other customers. Small companies will tolerate it.

We like companies that can get big and powerful on $50 million or less and not two, three, four or five billion.

When TV companies stop coming up with ideas, and I've got to go and do 'Celebrity Big Brother,' I don't want that to happen.

I understand the big food companies are developing a tearless onion. I think they can do it - after all, they've already given us tasteless bread.

President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office.

I've spent a lot of time trying to understand how all the big cosmetics companies get away with the placebo science and unscientific claims.

Without big data analytics, companies are blind and deaf, wandering out onto the Web like deer on a freeway.

Whether it's Facebook or Google or the other companies, that basic principle that users should be able to see and control information about them that they themselves have revealed to the companies is not baked into how the companies work. But it's bigger than privacy. Privacy is about what you're willing to reveal about yourself.

I made publicity contracts with Nike, several broadcasting companies and airline companies within Australia.

There's a lot to be said about what's happening to our ocean, big companies polluting it with their oil and all the raw garbage that's being spilled in there

I know one thing - very few writers in Southern California get to write what they want to write. We are more or less worker ants, working for either film companies or tv companies or Internet companies. We do a lot of assigned work. Feelings hardly ever enter into it. If they do, they tend to be on a sort of soap opera level.

What I really want to happen is for all companies to become eco - especially fast fashion companies.

When there were not very many Internet companies, the supply of Internet companies to the market was small and the appetite for them was large. Therefore, if you were in the business of creating Internet companies in 1996-98, you had a market that provided massive demand for that.

Today, a large part of Peru's revenues come from mining. Many big mining companies only pay income tax, but they extract minerals, they pollute the water. They don't give any form of compensation to the regions where those minerals are extracted and where they do the damage, forcing the state to help those regions. What my party Gana Peru is stating is that the mining companies will have to pay that compensation. That is called a royalty.

I'm looking to see more women of color not only in companies in technology, but also creating companies.

My products and magic are free, but on the commercial side of what I do, the big tech companies are impressed with somebody like me who can emotionalize a piece of technology.

The interests of big corporations have so permeated government that its major decisions are indistinguishable from the boardroom demands of the leading companies in each commercial sector.

Video is moving online in a big way. It's proven to be a challenging market for some companies that start out as a pure Internet company such as Joost.

Business schools need to address students on a human being level, not as cogs in the machine to supply fresh talent to big companies.

We knew we had to think global and think big. Most companies that are emerging don't do that.

Technology is always evolving, and companies.. not just search companies.. can't be afraid to take advantage of change.

I struggle to get the big companies to trust me, or be willing to work with me.

Companies that acquire startups for their intellectual property, teams, or product lines are acquiring startups that are searching for a business model. If they acquire later stage companies who already have users/customers and/or a predictable revenue stream, they are acquiring companies that are executing.

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

When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research.

Many financial and industrial companies have been bailed out with the public's money, but very few of those who had run those companies have been punished for their failures. Yes, the top managers of those companies have lost their jobs - but with a fat pension and mostly with a handsome severance payment.

I'm hard-pressed to think of companies that don't need venture capital that are going after big opportunities. I think, in almost all cases, if they're going after big opportunities, they are going to need to raise quite a bit of money.

Key is the question of where do new ideas come from. Historically, four places: government labs, big corporations, startup companies, and research universities.

The focus of our public discourse has been on how American companies are competing with Japanese, German, and other foreign companies. What this allows us to ignore is how each of those American companies is really in competition with the families of the workers. That's the real competition.

Most newspaper companies still have their heads in the sand, but other media companies are aggressive.

China has national security laws that compel Chinese companies to provide the government with information and access at their government's request. And virtually all Chinese companies of any size are required to have Communist Party 'cells' inside them, to make sure the companies stay in line with the party's principles and policies.

By making marijuana illegal, the agricultural people can't grab hold of it like they did with corn and wheat. So those companies are scrambling around trying to get hold of it, but they can't, because it's a cottage industry, and it will always be a cottage industry. Because the minute the big companies try to make it their own, like they did with soybeans...like Monsanto, they put their own patent on seeds, and you can't do that with marijuana.

If you're big in Montreal, you're big in Quebec. If you're big in Toronto, you're big in Canada. But if you're big in New York, you're big in the rest of the world.

The best software companies in the world are the Indian companies like the Tatas, Infosys, and others.

President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office

The only big companies that succeed will be those that obsolete their own products before somebody else does.

You can invest in companies, you can help grow companies, you can be a venture capitalist - and be a philanthropist at the same time.

There's a lot to be said about what's happening to our ocean, big companies polluting it with their oil and all the raw garbage that's being spilled in there.

If it were not for government regulation of big corporations, executives at companies like Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, they could have cheated investors out of millions.