Business Firms Quotes

#1. Roughly speaking, when you are dealing with business firms operating in a competitive system, you can assume that they're going to act rationally. Why? Because someone in a firm who buys things at $10 and sells them for $8.00 isn't going to last very long in that firm.

Ronald Coase

#2. The tools used by economists to analyze business firms are too abstract and speculative to offer any guidance to entrepreneurs and managers in their constant struggle to bring novel products to consumers at low cost.

Ronald Coase

#3. Sometimes it is in the long-run interest of the business sector to restrict the freedom of individual firms so that they do not destroy the common pool of resources that all of them need, such as natural resources or the labour force.

Ha-Joon Chang

#4. Our business model has been to partner with bigger firms and team on projects to gain experience. A bigger firm always enhances my smaller firm's position.

Linda Rawson

#5. Personally, I'd love to see more social media firms develop business models that aren't reliant on advertising. If you're a social media firm selling ads, your goal is to get people to interrupt what they're doing all day long so they come and stare at your service as much as possible.

Clive Thompson

#6. It was easier to ask for forgiveness than permission?

Kate Brian

#7. He was looking forward eagerly to seeing her again. He had coped perfectly well on his own, of course, but it was very reassuring to have someone in your life who was always ready to fight for you, and he had missed that comforting feeling,

Ken Follett

#8. Lack of ethics is so ingrained in the financial industry that they are not even aware of it any more. It's just business as usual for them.

Robert Rolih

#9. I want people to laugh and cry, not just sit and stare at the TV.

Michael Landon

#10. Why do men outperform women on the SAT? The SAT's supposed to predict college grades. Women do better in high school and they do better in college. What's the problem here? Ah, the more you use, the more you start accepting that the SAT's coachable, the more problems you have with it.

John Katzman

#11. Several other aerospace and defense firms have announced plans to build facilities in north Mississippi in recent weeks. They join an impressive group of high-tech companies already doing business in our region.

Roger Wicker

#12. The reality is that my style of drumming is largely an athletic undertaking, and it does not pain me to realize that, like all athletes, there comes a time to ... take yourself out of the game.

Neil Peart

#13. The reason why it is so difficult for existing firms to capitalize on disruptive innovations is that their processes and their business model that make them good at the existing business actually make them bad at competing for the disruption.

Clayton Christensen

#14. They watched her sit, holding the bundle up before her, the lamp just at her elbow belabored by a moth whose dark shape cast upon her face appeared captive within the delicate skull, the thin and roselit bone, like something kept in a china mask

Cormac McCarthy

#15. Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

#16. Such was the past, after all: it left the present cluttered with objects the survivors were immune to.

Chris Cleave

#17. Firms need to ensure that their ability to provide effective customer service keeps pace with their growth. If you're marketing your firm to new customers, you better be able to provide them service when they do business with you.

Arthur Levitt

#18. I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.

Adam Goldberg