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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• We are highly committed to international cooperation, development of public-private partnerships. To use the potential of large companies that have already been through the steps that we are taking now would be beneficial for the development of the country's healthcare system

  Veronika Skvortsova

  Country, Would Be, Use

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• An MBA is a great degree for career paths like investment banking, finance, consulting, and large companies. An MBA is not necessarily the right path for starting a tech company. You should be building a prototype, not getting an MBA in that case.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Mba, Careers, Degrees

  "Interview with Guy Kawasaki | Entrepreneur, Venture Capitalist, Author (Enchantment)". Interview with Sameer Kamat, www.mbacrystalball.com. June 26, 2011.

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• We do not believe in oversupplying the market. When you are a large company, you can afford to do it. When you are a small player, your flexibility gets reduced.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, Believe, Player

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• There are companies that are good at improving what they're already doing. There are companies that are good at extending what they're doing. And finally there are companies that are good at innovation. Every large company has to be able to do all three - improve, extend, and innovate - simultaneously.

  Peter Drucker

  Innovation, Three, Able

  Source: www.inc.com

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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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• The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years.

  Bill Gates

  Years, Track, Design

  "MS-DOS Turns 30: PCMag's Original Interview With Bill Gates". Interview with David Bunnell, www.pcmag.com. July 27, 2011.

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• It's good to buy a large company with fine businesses when the price is beaten down over worry about one problem.

  Henry Earl Singleton

  Worry, Problem, Fine

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• The sad truth is as difficult as the first mile can be for entrepreneurs, it is doubly tough inside most large companies as innovators can face some significant headwinds.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Entrepreneur, Firsts, Faces

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The need to be thoughtful about experiment design is particularly acute within large companies, since some of the behaviors, such as having small teams and tapping into low-cost resources to maximize flexibility, won't come naturally to many people inside huge companies.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Team, Thoughtful, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• One of the biggest mistakes large companies make is creating innovation teams that mirror all the functions of the core business. Those teams make no progress because they spent forever updating each other on what they are doing versus really crushing the most critical problems they need to address.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Crush, Mistake, Team

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• If you are a large company and you want to do something unique, you almost by definition have to tap onto the core business in some way. Otherwise you are going into a naked fight against startups, and that's just a tough place to be.

  Scott D. Anthony

  Fighting, Unique, Naked

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• If the question is, how do we best produce business people who can succeed in the post-Great Recession era, then I think the MBA programs and their connection to large companies remains intact but it's not the path to a "Business Brilliant" life. It's a path to a middle-class existence marked by large stretches of security and comfort with occasional eruptions that you're probably ill-prepared to handle. Do I sound too cynical?

  Lewis Schiff

  Thinking, Mba, Class

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• MBA programs are underwritten by large companies and they succeed at producing future employees of large companies. In that regard, they are doing exactly what they are supposed to be doing.

  Lewis Schiff

  Mba Programs, Succeed, Employee

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• When large companies take on risk, then they impose risks on the rest of the system. And these are systemic risks and these systemic risks we never used to think were really that important, but as soon as we recognize how the financial sector - the risks the financial sector takes on can impact the entire global economy, we realize that those risks needed to be controlled for the social good.

  Robert F. Engle

  Thinking, Impact, Risk

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It's more than unsettling to realize there are large companies out there developing backdoors, exploits and trojans.

  Mikko Hypponen

  Realizing, Trojans, Company

  "Three types of online attack (About the speaker)". TEDxBrussels Talk, www.ted.com. November 2011.

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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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• Government, on their part, are much disposed to favor the establishment of these large companies, and to give them privileges to the detriment of their rivals, and of the public, with the expectation of receiving from them loans, either gratuitous or at a low rate which these never refuse. It is thus that the one sells its protection and the other buys it; and this is already a very great evil.

  Antoine Destutt de Tracy

  Philosophy, Government, Giving

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