Top 100 Quotes About Company Success
#1. If your endeavors result in success of the company in a continuity of at
least a few years, you are a successful manager. If other companies follow
your business approach, you are certainly an important manager with
leader characteristics.
Eraldo Banovac
#2. I have told our senior executives that I will slaughter holy cows if it benefits the company's long-term success. When we asked ourselves whether Formula 1 still matched the concept of a sustainable company, the clear answer was no.
Norbert Reithofer
#3. Evidently, one thing seems to have more value in direct proportion to whether or not we feel we have the freedoms, joys or conveniences of that thing.
David Brier
#4. Any company designed for success in the 20th century is doomed to failure in the 21st.
David S. Rose
#5. A great sports car that goes from 0-60 in 3.9 seconds is just a fact. To the wrong audience, it's irrelevant. But to the right audience, it's a passion.
David Brier
#6. We are a consumer company and our success is directly linked to our users trusting us. Therefore we have the same incentive as the user: they want to see relevant advertising so their experience of Google is positive and we want to deliver it.
Susan Wojcicki
#7. I couldn't deal with anything. I wasn't enjoying what I was doing because of the situation. My Paiste rep, a symbol company, referred me to this doctor in LA. I went there and had a consultation done. So, he examined exactly what the problem was and I went for the operation and it was a success.
Charlie Benante
#8. it is not an exaggeration to state that any company designed for success in the twentieth century is doomed to failure in the twenty-first.
David S. Rose
#9. A company builds its success and becomes popular with its unique appearance and identity
Sunday Adelaja
#11. When Thomas and John Knoll launched Photoshop 1.0 in 1990, the software couldn't even handle color images. But their offerings got the startup noticed by Apple and Adobe, both of whom became key to the fledgling company's later success.
Jay Samit
#12. The greatest way to ensure your company's failure is to appoint leaders who see a divide between themselves and the team; who are more fixated on their elevated role than on the act of leading.
Steve Maraboli
#13. I got a letter from a lightning rod company this morning trying to out the fear of God in me, but with small success. Lightning seems to have lost its menace. Compared to what is going on on earth today, heaven's firebrands are penny fireworks with wet fuses.
E.B. White
#14. All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
Tom Peters
#15. Success happened little by little for me. I tasted the flavor of fame in small doses: I started at 10 years old when I won a music contest; I was performing at birthday parties, company meetings.
Shakira
#16. There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don't like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don't spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities.
Michael Dell
#17. In my last two years in high school, my face was pocked with pimples, I stammered when I spoke; if I made a mistake, I blushed furiously, and when nervous, as I was in the company of girls, I perspired freely.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
#18. Trust is not an important element; it is THE important element in any LONG TERM success with anyone or any company.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#19. Launching a brand is not for those with thin skin. It takes courage, intelligence and foresight.
David Brier
#20. So it comes down to scarcity, one product or service having qualities you won't find everywhere or ideally, anywhere. It's the job of every brand to seek that out as their standard, their stamp.
David Brier
#21. Creating in all employees the awareness that their best efforts are essential and that they will share in the rewards of the company's success.
Tom Peters
#22. When I meet with the founders of a new company, my advice is almost always, 'Do fewer things.' It's true of partnerships, marketing opportunities, anything that's taking up your time. The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success.
Evan Williams
#23. The success of the dinner depends as much upon the company as the cook. Discordant elements - people invited alphabetically, or to pay off debts - are fatal.
Ward McAllister
#24. Our first priority should be the people who work for the companies, then the customers, then the shareholders. Because if the staff are motivated then the customers will be happy, and the shareholders will then benefit through the company's success.
Richard Branson
#25. Developing a good, healthy culture is extremely important at a startup. Culture reflects the essence of a startup's operation because it directly affects the success of a company's hiring practices and overall strategy.
Scott Weiss
#27. When it comes to branding and the ever-changing social media phenomenon, you're not a mushroom. In other words, you shouldn't be kept in the dark and fed a pile of...well, you get the idea.
David Brier
#28. Joseph's story just parted company with the volumes of self-help books and all the secret-to-success formulas that direct the struggler to an inner power ("dig deeper"). Joseph's story points elsewhere ("look higher").
Max Lucado
#29. A lot of entrepreneurs hate big companies. But if you hate them so much, why are you trying to build a new one? The truth is, as soon as a startup has any kind of success whatsoever, it will face big company problems.
Eric Ries
#30. Consumers today have become a cynical mob of buyers who believe the reviews and ratings of complete strangers much more readily than your brand's promises and distinctions.
David Brier
#31. Every great brand goes back to a courageous individual who dared to say 'NO' to the status quo.
David Brier
#32. People often say to me, "How come you don't want to be CEO of a company?" And I tell them, "I don't want to." I know I can do it, but I don't enjoy it. Why does that have to be the definition of success?
Charlene Li
#33. It's not about market share. If you have a successful company, you will get your market share. But to get a successful company, what do you have to have? The same metrics of success that your customer does.
Gordon Bethune
#34. If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.
James Surowiecki
#35. I feel I am a role model to many, not just for my designs, but also for the fact that I started my own company with the help of my two friends. I became a success story, and people relate to that.
Christian Louboutin
#36. And while a brand is so much more than a company's logo, the logo is one of the key ambassadors to any brand.
David Brier
#37. Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.
Peter Singer
#38. It's not an easy task building a motorcycle company. Your window for success is relatively small. You can't afford a lot of hiccups if you don't have another business supporting you.
Robert Evans
#39. The faster you act, the more stable your company becomes and the higher your chances of success. Perfectionists make lousy entrepreneurs.
Sean Wise
#40. Managers' responsibility is to ensure that people deliver the expected results, which are the company's strategy. The company's strategy, in turn, determines its competitive advantage. So, if a manager does a poor job of motivating employees' productivity, the enterprise is a weak competitor.
Anna Stevens
#41. My goal in coming to General Motors was to help restore profitability, build a strong market position and position this iconic company for success. We are clearly on that path.
Edward Whitacre Jr.
#42. A company's success no longer depends primarily on its ability to raise investment capital. Success depends on the ability of its people to learn together and produce new ideas.
Arie De Geus
#43. Having a me-too brand is a death sentence.
David Brier
#44. No manager wants success completely defined on the company's terms. They want success defined by their own terms too.
Stan Slap
#45. I don't know where we should take this company, but I do know that if I start with the right people, ask them the right questions, and engage them in vigorous debate, we will find a way to make this company great.
James C. Collins
#46. Success travels in the company of very hard work. There is no trick, no easy way.
John Wooden
#47. Twenty percent of our success is the new technology that we embrace ... [but] eighty percent of our success is in the culture of our company."24 Indeed,
James C. Collins
#48. On the contrary, a company was more likely to asphyxiate on its own success.
Tracy Kidder
#49. If you look at the average age of a company on the Dow Jones index, it's something like 35 years or younger. In other words ... success is no indication of longevity.
Simon Sinek
#50. Success doesn't happen overnight. It's the small
successes achieved day by day that build a company. So, don't be
impatient or focused on immediate financial rewards.
John Gokongwei
#51. Success is creating something original and lasting-whether it is a company, a work of art, an idea or analysis that influence others, or a happy and productive family.
Linda Chavez
#52. We had maybe the greatest success of any company that I know of in Paris, and after two or three years I wanted to do this same number that we did for PBS, so we did it and Paris had always considered us their darlings.
Katherine Dunham
#53. Starting a company, your success is going to be very dependent on how you adapt. You're going to make decisions, you're going to make bets; most of them are going to turn out to be wrong.
Jeremy Stoppelman
#54. When you have gained a victory, do not push it too far; 'tis sufficient to let the company and your adversary see 'tis in your power but that you are too generous to make use of it.
Eustace Budgell
#55. Cookie cutters are for baking, not branding.
David Brier
#56. they sought to revitalize a nineteenth-century style of employment relations in which workers were considered liabilities rather than assets. It was a style in which a company's success was in opposition to workers' welfare rather than dependent on it.
Erin Hatton
#57. Eighty to 90 percent of success in a company has nothing to do with business at all - it's all personal.
Carol Roth
#58. Just as the economic success of a company is measured only by the number of dollars in its bank account, not by the happiness of its employees, so the evolutionary success of a species is measured by the number of copies of its DNA.
Yuval Noah Harari
#59. Companies don't succeed, people do.
Companies don't fail, people do.
Nabil N. Jamal
#60. Who are we, and how do we relate this idea in a way that's meaningful to our customers and the values they hold dear?
In other words, one must define something meaningful. To do that, one must identify to whom this must be meaningful.
David Brier
#61. There is an increasing gap between academic research and business application. Sometimes the incentives for success in the academic world are not consistent with what it takes to run a company.
Dave Ulrich
#62. As a global company, our future growth and success requires that we constantly look at ways to improve our ability to serve customers worldwide.
Steve Ballmer
#63. Good leadership is about the company's success, not your own.
Anne M. Mulcahy
#64. Why do some brands grow explosively when others (that could be thriving) die a lonely and forgettable death?
David Brier
#65. History is filled with inferior brands outselling superior ones thanks to better branding. Only superior branding has the power to overcome and reverse this (and superior products and services deserve superior branding).
David Brier
#66. There are three points I used to help a gourmet chocolatier increase sales 300% in a single month as well as a Midwest city to increase tourism guests 500% in 12 months.
David Brier
#67. where creativity doesn't drive a company's strategic vision, most often the lowest price will be the winning formula. Success, abundance, a rising standard of living-for individuals, companies, communities, nations-will depend on a capacity to create, invent, and innovate.
Peter Georgescu
#68. The speed at which a business success is recognized, furthermore, is not that important as long as the company's intrinsic value is increasing at a satisfactory rate. In fact, delayed recognition can be an advantage: It may give us the chance to buy more of a good thing at a bargain price.
Warren Buffett
#69. Evolution has been the key tenet of success over the past 13 years, and we have transformed from a single subscription e-commerce image business into a company with a diversified portfolio of content offerings, servicing the needs of businesses of all types and sizes globally.
Jon Oringer
#70. IT has to provide both business and technological insight into how they bring success to the company as a whole transparently, holistically, and continually.
Pearl Zhu
#71. Don't waste time. Avoid the company of wasteful people who lack the desire to achieve. Become assertive and action-oriented.
Archibald Marwizi
#72. We had a mission at PayPal - which was to create a new financial system, a new world currency, and we failed. We were a financial success, but we didn't succeed at the purpose of our company.
Luke Nosek
#73. A healthy company culture is a set of norms and behaviors that support high performance and supports the team as they move towards ultimate success. Visit these norms regularly. Everybody visits them regularly, from the CEO to the Truck Drivers.
Beth Ramsay
#75. At Google, operations are not just an afterthought: they are critical to the company's success, and we want to have just as much effort and creativity in this domain as in new product development.
Eric Schmidt
#76. Branding is the art of differentiation
David Brier
#77. What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.
Ian Jackson
#78. My advice to fledgling entrepreneurs is always the same: build a company that you plan to be with for the next 10 years - that is the best way to increase your chances of success.
Vivek Wadhwa
#79. I'm very ambitious. I live in reality but I have dreams I want to fulfill - I want to be a director, and I've already started my own production company. But I also have a measure of success that I keep to myself. It's something very personal to me.
Alex Pettyfer
#80. It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to the public. Secrecy is an important factor of success in the commodity business.
Marc Rich
#81. Brand growth and dominance is created by having the highest brand value, not the lowest price tag.
David Brier
#82. Look at every 'revolutionary' brand or category killer, it had an app, or a feature, or a functionality, or a user experience nobody else at that point could offer. I refer to this as 'the Killer App' principle.
David Brier
#83. You should always leverage performance and potential, look at the overall success of the company for the long run.
Pearl Zhu
#84. I think the company's [HP's] success will be my legacy. The company's failure will be my failure, with all the predictable consequences of that.
Carly Fiorina
#85. You need to simplify the value proposition in the company's metrics for success on a whiteboard.
Keith Rabois
#86. Motivated employees are crucial to a company's success.
Anne Rice
#87. When you are in a growth company, you have to really open people's eyes to the bigger possibilities so they think differently. Once they understand how to define success and what their role is in success, they make better decisions, and you can push decision-making down.
Dan Rosensweig
#88. Great leaders build trust from their team because the leader is willing to put his/her people "first." Once the team believes that, they will put their leader, and the company, first as well.
Beth Ramsay
#89. Getting the job done has been the basis for the success my company has achieved.
Michael Bloomberg
#90. Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the next record had to be even bigger, and if it wasn't it would be some kind of failure.
Roland Gift
#91. The biggest mistake brands make are trying to "sell their stuff" rather than clarifying what people are actually buying.
David Brier
#92. Well, strategy. The competitive landscape. Morale. The dynamics of the executive team. Top performers. Bottom performers. Customer satisfaction. Pretty much everything that has a long-term impact on the success of the company. Stuff you just can't cover in weekly or monthly meetings.
Patrick Lencioni
#93. Ebay's success as a company depends on the success of the community of sellers.
Pierre Omidyar
#94. Seeking an acquisition from the start is more than just bad advice for an entrepreneur. For the entrepreneur it leads to short term tactical decisions rather than company-building decisions and in my view often reduces the probability of success.
Vinod Khosla
#95. It becomes a question of 'How do we convey our differentiation instantaneously?' and drive a wedge between any apparent (or assumed) sameness in the marketplace.
David Brier
#96. You turn friends away before you discover they were good after all; you give up on your dreams before you realize you were very close to your success all that while. Be patient; don't rush things!
Israelmore Ayivor
#97. The chief executive officer is also the chief sales officer. He or she is responsible for the success of the company and making a profit. The closer the CEO is to the everyday selling process, bringing in business, the more successful the company will become.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#98. It is very rewarding when you see your employees happy and excited about the success of the company. When you introduce something new, a product in the world that gets really high marks and everyone loves using it and raves about it. You will feel very good about it.
Anousheh Ansari
#99. Don't look for a successful company to make your life better. Instead, strive to make whatever company your in a success
W.H. Carusso
#100. We've all seen it. A #startup begins with a #dream, a #passion to do something others have missed or overlooked.
David Brier
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