Quotes About Successful Companies

#1. The successful companies try to keep the new entrants down. Now that's great for a company like ours. We make more money that way because we have less competition and less innovation. But for the country as a whole, it's horrible.

Charles Koch

#2. Quality is the one absolutely necessary ingredient of all the most successful companies in the world.

Frank Perdue

#3. Companies that have been built and operated for a long time are the most successful companies.

Brian Acton

#4. We've seen a lot of data at YC now, and the most successful companies and the ones where the investors do the best ... end up giving a lot of stock out to employees- year after year after year.

Sam Altman

#5. My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.

Rachel Zoe

#6. Successful companies obviously have people with ideas and energy.

Hasso Plattner

#7. Eighty percent of the cases used in the typical MBA program are about successful companies. Students graduate with this notion that 'If I do everything that the people in those cases did, then my organization will grow and be successful, too.'

Clayton Christensen

#8. Most books on management are written by management consultants, and they study successful companies after they've succeeded, so they only hear winning stories.

Ben Horowitz

#9. the breakthrough researcher first discovers the fundamental causal mechanism behind the phenomena of success. This allows those who are looking for "an answer" to get beyond the wings-and-feathers mind-set of copying the attributes of successful companies.

Clayton M Christensen

#10. Not only is there no longer a mass market, but most of the successful companies, game-changing innovations, and products and services we care about were designed to cater to people at the edges of that curve, not to the average Joe in the middle of it.

Bernadette Jiwa

#11. In taking Dell private, we plan to go back to our roots, focusing on the entrepreneurial spirit that made Dell one of the fastest-growing and most successful companies in history.

Michael Dell

#12. Truly visionary and successful companies have discovered that there is no conflict between the pursuit of profit and having a pursuit beyond profit.

David Maister

#13. Successful companies are started, and made successful, by at least two, and usually more, soulmates.

Guy Kawasaki

#14. He's a family man and a businessman. He spent his career building successful companies. Then, he saved the 2002 Olympics and brought pride to our nation. As governor, he balanced the budget, cut taxes, and created jobs. The president America needs is Mitt Romney!

Reince Priebus

#15. There's only one thing that all the successful companies in the world have in common: None was started by one person.

Ernesto Sirolli

#16. Successful companies in social media function more like entertainment companies, publishers, or party planners than as traditional advertisers.

Erik Qualman

#17. The paradox explored in my book 'The Innovator's Dilemma' is that successful companies can fail by making the 'right' decisions in the wrong situations.

Clayton Christensen

#18. The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

Ralph Abernathy

#19. If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

#20. I wanted to be a venture capitalist and join Sequoia Capital. They've financed and helped built some really special and enormously successful companies, including Google, Yahoo, Paypal, YouTube, Cisco, Oracle, Apple, and also Zappos.

Alfred Lin

#21. In my view the successful companies of the future will be those that integrate business and employees' personal values. The best people want to do work that contributes to society with a company whose values they share, where their actions count and their views matter.

Jeroen Van Der Veer

#22. Successful companies will almost always be described in terms of a clear strategy, good organization, strong corporate culture, and customer focus. But whether these things drive company performance, or whether they're mainly attributions based on performance, is a different matter.

Phil Rosenzweig

#23. The most successful companies make the core progression - to first dominate a specific niche and then scale to adjacent markets - a part of their founding narrative.

Peter Thiel

#24. I've become absolutely convinced that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre or unsuccessful ones has little, if anything, to do with what they know or how smart they are; it has everything to do with how healthy they are.

Patrick Lencioni

#25. If you look at the CEOs of some the most successful companies in the world like IKEA, they never fly first class. They always go economy.

Gene Simmons

#26. Learning from mistakes and constantly improving products is a key in all successful companies.

Bill Gates

#27. My father will always be my hero. He pioneered two successful companies that paved the way for the technology services industry and has devoted much of his life to helping people in need and those who serve our nation in the armed forces.

Ross Perot Jr.

#28. The good music companies do an amazing thing. They have people who can pick the person that's gonna be successful out of 5,000 candidates. And there's not enough information to do that - it's an intuitive process.

Steve Jobs

#29. If we look at the happiest, most successful people and companies, they're those that have a positive attitude about continuously improving. It's growth. It's something new. It's an adventure.

Laurie Sudbrink

#30. What can we learn from the battle between data and design? What can we learn from the relationship between Google and Apple? Clearly no one school of thought is right: Apple and Google are both wildly successful and profitable companies that changed the world.

Ben Parr

#31. Companies that banked their future on broadband - most of them are not very successful.

Jerry Yang

#32. Being an entrepreneur and starting new companies require a lot of sacrifice. Sacrifice that you have to make. Because in order to be really successful, your company becomes your life. And then you have to really dedicate your time and energy fully to this endeavor that you start.

Anousheh Ansari

#33. One of the banes of successful innovation is that companies may be so committed to innovation that they will give the innovators a lot of money to spend.

Clayton M Christensen

#34. Many entrepreneurs that made their fortunes by founding successful technology companies want to give back and solve the world's biggest problems on a grand scale. There is tremendous opportunity in this approach.

Peter Diamandis

#35. I'd rather people talked about the 1,000 most successful French Internet companies instead of the 5 or 10 faces we already know - including mine.

Xavier Niel

#36. There are a handful of companies who understand all successful business operations come down to three basic principles; People
Product
Profit. Without top people, you cannot do much with the other two.

Malcolm Forbes

#37. Successful organizations and companies share the stage with their best storytellers. Brands are a collection of narratives. Unleash your best stories.

Carmine Gallo

#38. To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics.

Warren Buffett

#39. If you start a successful company in China at 11 A.M., by 2 P.M. there's three more companies like it.

Douglas Leone

#40. companies are focused on building products rather than brands. A product is something made in a factory. A brand is something made in the mind. To be successful today, you have to build brands, not products. And you build brands by using positioning strategies, starting with a good name. Any

Al Ries

#41. You can always pound out demos and send them to record companies, but most of the successful bands I've seen are the ones that can sustain themselves.

Joe Perry

#42. Life inside successful Web startups - especially the really successful ones - can be nasty, brutish, and short. As companies grow exponentially, egos clash, investors jockey for control, and business complexities rapidly exceed the managerial abilities of the founders.

Brad Stone

#43. An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming tools, but came out with an operating system. Oracle started doing contracts for the CIA. AOL started out as an online video gaming network.

Marc Andreessen

#44. We don't expect Google as a first party service to provide all the answers. Part of the reason a platform is successful is because there are very very important things from other companies and other developers on top of the platform.

Sundar Pichai

#45. What if the slowdown in merger activity isn't cyclical, but secular? What if corporations have learned the lessons of so many companies before them that the odds of a successful merger are no better than 50-50 and probably less? Is it possible that the biggest deals have already been done?

Andrew Ross Sorkin

#46. It is a simple fact of life on earth that there is going to be no successful mitigation of the climate change problem without a truly global effort. All developing companies or all major developing countries have to be part of that and accept substantial constraints on greenhouse gas emissions.

Ross Garnaut

#47. Personally, I feel that a company which looks at problems of other companies and learns from their mistakes is a successful one.

Dilip Shanghvi

#48. There's a pure and simple business case for diversity: Companies that are more diverse are more successful.

Mindy Grossman

#49. If you think about companies that were built in Silicon Valley, a lot of them early on were chip companies. And now the companies that are there, like Apple, are much more successful than any of the chip companies were.

Mark Zuckerberg

#50. The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful.

Fred Wilson

#51. 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

#52. The companies that are successful, they start out to make meaning, not to make money.

Guy Kawasaki

#53. Tech companies have a finite lifespan: For the successful ones, an IPO or exit is never more than a few years off. But by recruiting locally and developing homegrown talent, companies can build something that remains after they're gone. People, skills and a culture of innovation persist.

Ryan Holmes

#54. I think when companies are struggling, they don't want to talk to the press. The guys who write business books aren't interested in it because nobody wants to learn what it's like to be a mess, you want to learn how to be successful. That's slanted the whole thing quite a bit.

Ben Horowitz

#55. Companies will need to pursue a more diversified business model, but I think those companies that have what I call a focused diversified business model will be more successful.

Kenneth Chenault

#56. Individuals and companies that want to be successful in the 21st century will need to be leaders in using the Internet and related technology.

William Clay Ford Jr.

#57. The key is not to figure out what the best people are doing and try to emulate it - rather, figure out what causes people and companies to be successful.

Clayton Christensen

#58. thousand CEOs, business owners, and highly successful entrepreneurs about their businesses and how they lead companies through good times and bad. One of the most important questions I ask them is "What's the biggest worry keeping you awake at night?

Jason Jennings

#59. I look forward to the day when half our homes are run by men and half our companies and institutions are run by women. When that happens, it won't just mean happier women and families; it will mean more successful businesses and better lives for us all.

Sheryl Sandberg

#60. We have witnessed the most educated, successful, and monied professionals in the country put their companies - not to mention their own liberty - at risk by engaging in flagrant and foolhardy illegal conduct.

Preet Bharara

#61. I'm fascinated by management and organizations: how organizations get things done and how successful organizations are built and maintained, how they evolve as they grow from start-ups to small companies to medium companies to big companies.

Mitch Kapor

#62. The history of antitrust law enforcement shows that successful antitrust prosecutions have often strengthened and brought vitality to extremely large companies and businesses.

Robert Kennedy

#63. The Curbside founders are successful entrepreneurs, who each have sold their companies to Apple.

Jerry Yang

#64. I talked to my partners (about) the decision I wanted to do and we all wished each other good luck. My partners have been very successful in the companies that we've created. They're very happy about it and have the mindset to run them and do well with them.

Drew Waters

#65. Instead of attacking successful American companies, Europe's leaders should ask themselves why their continent has not produced a Google or a Facebook.

Anonymous

#66. The growth of a company like ours tends to be a relatively steady because, like some of the other successful mixed signal companies, we have a wide range of products servicing a wide range of end applications.

David Milne

#67. We Experiment Endlessly, With New Products, New Methods, New Companies And New Marketing. A Successful Business The Emphasis Is On Experiment And Development, Ideas Are The Lifeblood Of Business.

Richard Branson

#68. All too often, a successful new business model becomes the business model for companies not creative enough to invent their own.
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Gary Hamel

#69. The companies that are the most influential and most successful are the ones that care about impact and the influence they have on the world.

Paul Buchheit