Top 1200 Big Companies Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really.

There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, 'We don't offer bribes', or companies that operate only by market rules.

The companies that won't do well will be the me-too companies: the fifth, sixth, seventh version of Twitter, etc.

Companies that are terrifying to a writer are companies like Amazon.

Most big companies don't like you very much, except hotels, airlines and Microsoft, which don't like you at all.

The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful.

Journalism continues to go south, thanks to big media and its strangulation of news, and there's not much left in the way of community or local media. Add to that an internet that has not even started thinking seriously about how it supports journalism. You have these big companies like Google and Facebook who run the news and sell all the ads next to it, but what do they put back into journalism? It isn't much.

I plan to eliminate regulations that hinder domestic companies, particularly large conglomerates from investing in other companies.

These companies know that at their current size they're not going to be big enough to have the necessary capital, and they don't have enough spectrum to get to the third generation.

Citizen journalism and even our ethnic press could be harmed by big companies deciding where we can get our news.

There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, We dont offer bribes, or companies that operate only by market rules.

When I took on the drug companies and the insurance companies for universal health care coverage, they went after me with a vengeance.

The subtle differences in language and humor that get lost in translation, for example, make it almost impossible for big companies to do something that will appeal at home and abroad.

If you talk privately to our tech companies, our pharmaceutical companies, our high-end manufacturing companies, the high end of America, where the good-paying jobs are, China is not letting them in unless China gets to steal their intellectual property in a company that`s 51 percent owned by the Chinese.

I think big data companies only like good news. So I think they're just hoping that they don't get sued, essentially.

All companies that grow really big do so in only one way: people recommend the product or service to other people.

We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces.

For a number of major companies, if you can't access the commercial markets, you can't fund your business. That's a big problem. You can't pay your bills.

Big companies are reliant on institutional investors on a punishing schedule which leads to ruthless behaviour. This form of capitalism with this structure and incentives will never deliver sustainability.

The major media companies are playing a defensive game, and I'm not sure I blame them. If you look at the digital revolution, you look at who the winners and the losers are, there are some very very big losers - music, the newspaper industry. And there are some really big winners, social media, Facebook.

The big tech companies understood that the government had not only damaged American principles, it had hurt their businesses.

I had spent the prior eight years working at my firm primarily representing big chemical companies, helping them comply with all the different state and federal laws.

Let's fix what's broken about Obamacare, but let's not throw it away and give it all back to the insurance companies and the drug companies.

The typical big Japanese company has somewhere between a third and 40 percent of its revenues coming from developing countries, and about a third of Japan's exports are also to the emerging countries, so in a strange way, Japan, which has very little internal growth, its big companies are a good way to play the emerging markets.

Foreign companies in the United States have a significantly higher unionization rate than other companies overall.

Cable and satellite businesses are competing against fixed-line telephone companies and wireless companies.

Small business, right down to the individual can beat big, bureaucratic companies ten times out of ten.

There are times when you need to step back and realize that movie studios today are not necessarily the same things that they were many years ago. Many movie studios are international conglomerates now. They own everything from theme parks to toy companies to T-shirt companies to video companies. There's a lot of different wheels to be greased.

Some big pharmaceutical companies have engaged in dirty tricks to extend their patents, holding monopolies on certain drugs to pad their profits at consumers' expense.

To a poet, it's quite ruinous to have a poem distorted, out of shape, or squeezed, shall we say, into this tiny screen. But I'm not sure big digital companies are sensitive to the needs of poets.

Of all the big Internet companies, Yahoo is the most highly valued on a price-earnings and price-sales basis.

Most smart companies should make themselves media companies. That means they put out their own information.

Basically, the UBR is a relic of an earlier vision for UDDI. The original vision for UDDI was as a standard that would help companies conduct business with each other in an automated fashion. The idea was that companies could publish how they wanted to interact, and other companies could find that information and use it to establish a relationship.

I think that the best companies are companies that have a real purpose.

We've seen the government give out subsidies to companies, those companies turn around and use it for executive bonuses.

When you see most companies get big, they want to shout about all they've done. But the consumer wants to know: 'What have you done for me lately?'

I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really

Insurance companies, drug companies are going to have to be ponying up, partly because right now they're receiving huge subsidies.

Companies are bought for their revenue, customer base, technology, or people. A few great companies offer all of these, but any valuable business offers one.

Traditional companies have to start looking into themselves to offer more opportunities in their companies by starting new subsidiaries and joint ventures.

The shining star in the world is Shanghai. That's what CEOs from big companies say - 'if I want mathematical analytical work done, it's done in China.'

The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your face, and everyone, even people who work for rival film companies, tells you they voted for you.

Insurance companies pay big bucks for procedures but next to nothing for patient consultations and preventive medicine, which is what most medicine is.

All companies are service companies; some also manufacture products.

The last few months have seen a welcome race to the top. Consumers have sent companies a clear signal that they do not want their purchasing habits to drive deforestation and companies are responding. Better still, companies are committing to working in partnership with suppliers, governments and NGOs to strengthen forest governance and economic incentives. It can be done and this Declaration signals a real intention to accelerate action.

The sports apparel industry was dominated by the big shoe companies. But there was a void in apparel and I decided to fill it.

Sometimes you are at the mercy of record companies or publishing companies.

I love stirring the pot. I love giving big companies a run for their money - especially if they're offering expensive, poor-quality products.

Small- and medium-sized companies do not know what we have to offer and that needs to be changed. We must react just as strenuously on their behalf as we do for larger companies.

Big fund companies have many ways to increase the returns of young funds that they want to promote. And at least one of those games involves popular offerings.

It's really hard to argue that bitcoin doesn't have many legitimate benefits to companies that are legal businesses when you have Dell and Expedia and all these companies now accepting it.

I thought the Made in America men's wear push was a big revolution in terms of smaller companies taking charge, but it seems like it's gotten out of control.

There are areas using what's called the "checkerboard strategy." They are different cities where you can move around the "checkerboard," doing things you can't do in every square, that you can do in some of them, building a mosaic of these kinds of practices. There are about 400 cable television networks, for example, that are publicly owned. That's a big fight for big private companies. In some areas, this is a political struggle, in some it's conventional common sense.

Junk food companies are acting very much like tobacco companies did 30 years ago.

Successful companies in social media function more like entertainment companies, publishers, or party planners than as traditional advertisers.

You have companies over in different countries where they devalue their currency and they make it impossible for American companies to compete.

In the most innovative companies there is a significantly higher volume of thank yous than in companies of low innovation.

The companies that look after their people are the companies that do really well. I'm sure we'd like a few other attributes, but that would be the most important one.

At Foundry Group, we always look for companies that we think build magic into their products. Occipital has been one of those companies.

Your money is power, so be aware of the products you're buying and the companies you're supporting to make sure you're helping the companies that are leading the way in sustainability.