Big Companies Quotes

• It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, War, Investing Money

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.150, John Wiley & Sons

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• The real question is who will innovate.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Real, Innovation, Real Questions

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• Be creative. Innovate consistently on the little things that the big companies ignore. Little things often make big differences in business.

  Richard Branson

  Differences, Creative, Survival

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

  Haruki Murakami

  Jobs, Men, People

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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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• The United States is like a big company, and we need a CEO to run it.

  David A. Siegel

  Running, United States, Needs

  "Why David Siegel Told His Employees to Vote for Romney". Interview with Susan Berfield, www.bloomberg.com. October 11, 2012.

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• Leading a big company means never allowing a company to take itself too seriously.

  Jack Welch

  Leadership, Mean, Bigs

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

  Bill Bryson

  America, Microsoft, World

  Bill Bryson (2000). “The Complete Notes”, Random House

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

  Richard Branson

  Running, Business, Poor Quality

  Richard Branson (1999). “Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way”, Crown Business

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

  Larry Page

  Made, Bigs, Company

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• Social media allows big companies to act small again.

  Jay Baer

  Media, Social, Bigs

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• Like any big company, they've got a brand name, and they've got to keep extending it. Because the reality is, there's not a whole lot of difference between their search (engine) and anyone else's.

  John Tinker

  Reality, Names, Differences

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• Whatever vocation you decide on, track down the best people in the world at doing it and surround yourself with them. Aim high and be ridiculously persistent. Your happiness is at the intersection of your passions and learning from great people. Working at a big company sucks--avoid it. Smaller companies are 10 times better for learning. Be generous with your time and money--it has an amazingly fast payback. Be in the moment with everyone you love--and this frequently means tuning out work completely. And drive slow in parking lots.

  Scott Weiss

  Mean, Passion, People

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• Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

  Douglas Coupland

  Failure, Sound, Band

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “Eleanor Rigby: A Novel”, p.105, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• My advice was to start a policy of making reversible decisions before anyone left the meeting or the office. In a startup, it doesn't matter if you're 100 percent right 100 percent of the time. What matters is having forward momentum and a tight fact-based data/metrics feedback loop to help you quickly recognize and reverse any incorrect decisions. That's why startups are agile. By the time a big company gets the committee to organize the subcommittee to pick a meeting date, your startup could have made 20 decisions, reversed five of them and implemented the fifteen that worked.

  Steve Blank

  Business, What Matters, Data

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• Nobody had a credit card when I was a kid. No one had credit card debt. But these big companies and banks wanted to know how to get more money out of people - get them charging things.

  Michael Moore

  Kids, People, Cards

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• A big company is like trying to steer a luxury liner.

  Chris Hardwick

  Luxury, Trying, Bigs

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

  Evan Williams

  Talent, Entrepreneurial, Bigs

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• The big companies are like steel and activists are like heat. Activists soften the steel, and then I can bend it into pretty grillwork and make reforms.

  Temple Grandin

  Reform, Steel, Heat

  Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson (2010). “Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals”, p.256, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Beth Comstock

  Helping, Projects, Bigs

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• Anyone working for a big company might be skeptical that a large business, or even a strictly online business, can form the same kind of friendly, loyal relationship with customers as a local retailer. I'm saying it's already been done because I lived it.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Educational, Friendly, Done

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• [T]here may be some truth in that if the Arabs have some complaints about my policy towards Israel, they have to realize that the Jews in the U. S. control the entire information and propaganda machine, the large newspapers, the motion pictures, radio and television, and the big companies, and there is a force that we have to take into consideration.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Israel, Machines, Television

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• I had started at a small startup as a big-company guy. Now I was leaving a big company as a small-startup guy.

  Douglas Edwards

  Guy, Leaving, Bigs

  Douglas Edwards (2011). “I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59”, p.559, Penguin UK

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• 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

  Lloyd Bridges

  Ocean, Oil, Garbage

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• If you start a chocolate company, you can't compete with Cadbury in the first ten years because they are a big company.

  Tamim Iqbal

  Business, Years, Chocolate

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