Large Companies Quotes

• Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

  J. Paul Getty

  Work, Sitting Still, Getting High

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• Regardless of whether you are an entrepreneur or whether you are an employee of a large company, the absolute prerequisite is that you must know your stuff. There is no substitute for this.

  Fred C. Koch

  Entrepreneur, Stuff, Substitutes

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• Personalization is based on a bargain. In exchange for the service of filtering, you hand large companies an enormous amount of data about your daily life--much of whic you might not trust your friends with.

  Eli Pariser

  Hands, Data, Might

  Eli Pariser (2011). “The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think”, p.19, Penguin

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• My goal was livelihood. We don't use that word often enough. If I could give one piece of advice to anyone it's don't obsess with this notion that you have to turn everything you do into a business, because that ends up being a small version of a large company. But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.

  Anita Roddick

  Skills, Giving, Goal

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• Large companies are not going to disappear. Multinational companies with tens of thousands of employees are not going to disappear. In fact, many of them are getting larger because they can benefit from economies of scale.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Mind, Benefits

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• Large companies and government agencies have a lot to protect and therefore are not willing to take big risks. A large company taking a risk can threaten its stock price. A government agency taking a risk can threaten congressional investigation.

  Peter Diamandis

  Agency, Government, Risk

  "Why Billion-Dollar, 100-Year-Old Companies DIE" by Peter Diamandis, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 19, 2013.

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• Entrepreneurs have the flexibility and the ability to do things that large companies simply cannot. Could a large company pull off a trick like Amyris, going from anti-malaria medicine to next-generation fuel?

  Vinod Khosla

  Medicine, Entrepreneur, Malaria

  "Power Q&A: Vinod Khosla". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2008.

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• Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.

  Natalie Merchant

  Worry, Be True To Yourself, Profit

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• The typical large company has a compensation committee, They don't look for Dobermans on that committee, they look for chihuahuas.

  Warren Buffett

  Typical, Looks, Dobermans

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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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• Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large companies.

  Sam Altman

  Moving, Speed, Advantage

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• Large companies cannot finance political parties as their shareholders and employees have different political views.

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  Party, Views, Political

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• 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.

  Peter Lynch

  Real, Thinking, Investing

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• I never took classic business classes in college, so I don't have the background that any of the people running large companies have.

  Howard Schultz

  Running, College, Class

  "Howard Schultz Talks To Los Angeles Entrepreneurs About Starbucks, His New Book, And The American Dream". Interview with Nicole Larson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 07, 2011.

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• We have always wanted Google to be a company that is deserving of great love. But we recognize this is an ambitious goal because most large companies are not well-loved, or even seemingly set up with that in mind. We're lucky to have a very direct relationship with our users, which creates a strong incentive for us to do the right thing .

  Larry Page

  Love, Strong, Ambition

  "Google Beats Out Apple, Facebook, And Twitter For Most Popular Tech Brand: Poll" By Courteney Palis, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2012.

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• Large companies are very good at solving extremely complex problems in a globally optimal way.

  Thomas Pogge

  Way, Problem, Very Good

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The more successful the unit, the more difficult it is to make sure that the large company doesn't put the same expectations on it as it does for the rest of the company. When it's a new venture, whether it's outside or inside the business, it's a child. And you don't put a 40-pound pack on a 6-year-old's back when you take her hiking.

  Peter Drucker

  Children, Successful, New Ventures

  Source: www.inc.com

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• Of one thing the investor can be certain: A large company's need to bring in a new chief executive from the outside is a damning sign of something basically wrong with the existing management - no matter how good the surface signs may have been as indicated by the most recent earnings statement.

  Philip Arthur Fisher

  Needs, Investing, May

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• Despite the fact that Starbucks has grown to be a large company. We've always played music in our stores and has always acted as an opportunity to create a mood in our stores. And customers started asking, "What song are you playing and can I buy that?" . And we said "No." And that was kind of the catalyst for beginning to look at music. We started out with our own compilations and after the success of that. We had the courage to say, "Let's produce our own record." and the first record was with Ray Charles before he unfortunately passed away.

  Howard Schultz

  Song, Opportunity, Facts

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• Network marketing is based purely on relationship selling, which is the state of the art in selling today. Small and large companies throughout the country and the world are realizing that individuals selling to their friends and associates is the future of sales, because the critical element in buying is trust.

  Brian Tracy

  Country, Art, Marketing

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• Women do not enter a profession in significant numbers until it is physically safe. So until we care enough about men's safety to turn the death professions into safe professions, we in effect discriminate against women. But when we overprotect women and only women it also leads to discrimination against women. ...If [an employer works] for a large company for which quotas prevent discrimination, they find themselves increasingly hiring free-lancers rather than taking on a woman and therefore a possible sexual harassment lawsuit.

  Warren Farrell

  Men, Numbers, Safety

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• Photos tend to organize chaos, to define what we're doing here. It is essential that individuals' voices depict the world around us, as we are increasingly controlled by large institutions, large companies and large systems.

  Martin Parr

  Voice, Essentials, World

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• It is useless for large companies of believers to spend long hours begging God to send revival. Unless we intend to reform we may as well not pray. Unless praying men have the insight and faith to amend their whole way of life to conform to the New Testament pattern there can be no true revival.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Long, Religion

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• Small and mid-sized companies in this country historically have been responsible for creating the overwhelming majority of new jobs in the private sector. One of the most-common misconceptions about our private enterprise system is that large companies, such as the Fortune 500, are integral to the process of job creation in this country. The truth is quite the opposite.

  Michael Milken

  Country, Jobs, Opposites

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• Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier. It takes a mile before anything happens. And if it was a wrong turn, getting back on course takes even longer.

  Al Ries

  Change, Trying, Aircraft Carriers

  Al Ries, Jack Trout (2001). “Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind”, McGraw Hill Professional

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