Big Companies Quotes - Page 3

• It's easy to say that entrepreneurs will create jobs and big companies will create unemployment, but this is simplistic. The real question is who will innovate.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Jobs, Real, Entrepreneur

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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 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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• 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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• Innovation is doubly hard inside big companies.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Innovation, Bigs, Company

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• 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.

  Simon Sinek

  Military, Government, Stuff

  Source: advisor.tv

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• Some of the biggest bores I've ever known are men who have been highly successful in business, particularly self-made heads of big companies. Before the first olive has settled into the first martini, they pour the stories of their lives into the nearest and sometimes the remotest ears capturable.... These men have indeed paid the price of success. To rise to the top of a big company often takes a totality of effort, concentration and dedication. Others, too, have to pay part of the price. Wife and children are out of mind even when in sight.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Children, Successful, Men

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• If you are a big company, a big website, and lots of users come to your website, you will have attacks, and you have to deal with that. It just cannot be a reason to take actions to exit certain markets.

  Robin Li

  Exit, Action, Reason

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• The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Needs, Bigs, Profit

  "Live From..." with Miles O'Brien, www.cnn.com. March 25, 2004.

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

  Bill Gates

  Doe, Succeed, Obsolete

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

  Jack Welch

  Opportunity, Process, Bigs

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• When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you're stupid, you panic and get another job. If you're smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next.

  Bruce Schneier

  Dream, Jobs, Stupid

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• 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.

  Tommy Chong

  Marijuana, People, Trying

  "Tommy Chong: The Beyond Chronic Interview (Part Two)". Interview with Old Hippie, beyondchronic.com. June 30, 2016.

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• In America, we've had people that are political hacks making the biggest deals in the world, bigger than companies. You take these big companies, these trade deals are far bigger than these companies, and yet we don't use our great leaders, many of whom back me and many of whom back Hillary Clinton, I must say. But we don't use those people.

  Donald Trump

  America, People, Leader

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• I sometimes wonder how some people can live with themselves in some of the big companies today. So many far-reaching decisions are based on how they will affect the next shareholders' meeting.

  Jane Goodall

  People, Decision, Today

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• Every big company has some little guy who is an enthusiast off in the corner working on technology. In Japan, it is integrated into their high-level strategy. They see it as a communication medium, because for them, just the words  -  and this is the problem that they have with Americans  -  just the words they say to you is not the complete message. Their facial expressions, their body language, there is a lot of context. Also, their written language doesn't translate to keyboards well.

  Howard Rheingold

  Communication, Technology, Japan

  Source: medium.com

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

  Omar Hamoui

  Bigs, Company, Competitors

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• I think there's been this long cycle of the big companies making a lot of money by underestimating people's intelligence and people are used to it now. So, they're so used to having their intelligence underestimated that, for most of them, it really isn't worth the bother of paying a little more attention to something that might hit them on a deeper level. But you can't really read people's minds.

  J. Robbins

  Thinking, Long, People

  "Burning Airlines". Interview with Camilo Arturo Leslie, pitchfork.com. February 1, 2001.

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• The best part of being signed by a major label was having the support of a big company behind me and the ability to meet new artists and producers.

  Jessica Sanchez

  Artist, Support, Labels

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• Innovation doesn't come from the big company. It never has and never will. Innovation is something new that looks crazy at first glance. It comes from the 19-year-olds and the start-ups that no one's heard of.

  Marc Andreessen

  Crazy, Years, Innovation

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• Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.

  Jack Bruce

  Country, Needs, Gone

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

  Alexandra Paul

  Country, Lines, Bigs

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• Early in my career when we went to golf tournaments and charity dinners I noticed businessmen and executives would give the players their cards. Well, they're giving you their cards for a reason. I said to my wife, 'All the guys get these cards and then when they get to the parking lot they rip them up or throw them away. It's really weird.' My wife .. said maybe you should just sign a picture and mail it to them. You know, 'Great playing golf with you,' or whatever. So, I did and lo and behold some of those guys I sent pictures to way back then are now CEOs at big companies.

  Tie Domi

  Rip, Golf, Player

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