C Quotes
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“Companies cannot choose which laws apply to them and which ones do not.”
“Companies cannot really see beyond their current customer base. They explicitly or implicitly do things to protect their current customers. And the last person to want real change is your customer. This is why most new ideas come from small companies that have nothing to lose.”
“Companies capitalize off people’s unwillingness to patiently wait… Top companies understand this demand and respond, “No problem, I will give it to you now, but you will have to pay.” - - The Credit Repair Book: The Credit Repair Company's Secret Weapon.”
Source: The Credit Repair Book: The Credit Repair Company's "Secret Weapon"
“Companies die because their managers focus on the economic activity of producing goods and services, and they forget that their organizations' true nature is that of a community of humans.”
Source: The Living Company
“Companies die because they’ve become fixated on fighting for their current business model rather than shifting to a more relevant one”
Source: Business Model Shifts: Six Ways to Create New Value For Customers
“Companies do not do new things because they understand it but because they feel it.”
“Companies doing "business as usual" have to get baseline data on their impact and simultaneously understand what the impacts are. The larger the company, the more challenging that can be - so I empathize with the arduousness of the process. But it can be an exciting and rewarding challenge for all those involved, particularly when you can show progress.”
“Companies don't exist, and at the end of the day it is people make every decision in buisnesses. Human beings, not some feastious machine programmed solely for the improvement of efficiency and revenue generation. Companies are not machines. They are not dogs, as IGN bizarrely put it. They aren't even an entity. They are merely a banner to represent the activities of humans.”
“Companies don't succeed, people do.
Companies don't fail, people do.”
“Companies don't get rich hurting their customers.”
“Companies don't give job security. Only satisfied customers do.”
“Companies don't have ideas. Only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds of loyalty and trust they develop around each other.”
“Companies don't have ideas; only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds and loyalty and trust they develop between each other. What matters is the mortar, not just the bricks.”
“Companies don't have one culture. They have as many as they have supervisors or managers. You want to build a strong culture? Hold every manager accountable for the culture that he or she builds.”
“Companies don't innovate, people do.”
Source: Jolt!: Get the Jump on a World That's Constantly Changing
“Companies, entertainers, content creators, politicians, preachers ... Everybody is squeezing you in the name of your family. Don't run away from your responsibilities but you should seek eternal freedom and not waste your life in gratifying some ghosts that are pretending to be your family members and holding you hostage.”
“Companies face a handful of different risks, whether it is competitors or different market environments. But I think that people focus way too much on competitors and not enough on their own execution.”
“Companies fail for lack of brains and effort.”
“Companies generally withhold their knowledge that some of their jobs are known to be toxic to their unsuspecting workers.”
“Companies get into grooves and they keep sharpening what they are doing, when in fact what they really need to do sometimes is to stop and do something completely differently.”
“Companies have a responsibility to train and retrain their employees.”
“Companies have got to learn to eat change for breakfast.”
“Companies have long gathered data to break down their customer base into specific segments. Now political parties have become adept at micro-targeting, too, using data on shopping habits, leisure activities, voting histories, charity donations, and so on, in order to pinpoint likely supporters and the type of appeal most likely to win them over.”
“Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.”
“Companies have to nurture [creativity and motivation]-and have to do it by building a compassionate yet performance-driven corporate culture. In the knowledge economy the traditional soft people side of our business has become the new hard side.”
“Companies have to take risks to get new knowledge, in a manner similar to how jazz musicians take risks when they go after a new approach to a tune or a performance.”
“Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.”
“Companies hire a lot during boom times because they're trying to adequately accelerate into the future.”
“Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.”
“Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.”
“Companies in Mexico are not going to do well if they don't have some connection to not just markets, but also suppliers and technology from the United States.”
“Companies in the East put a lot more emphasis on human relationships, while those from the West focus on the product, the bottom line. Westerners appear to have more of a need for achievement, while in the East there's more need for affiliation.”
“Companies in the top quartile for diverse leadership teams outperformed less diverse peers on profitability.”
Source: Sustainable Happy Profit
“Companies leverage two basic pulleys of human behavior to increase the likelihood of an action occuring: the ease of performing an action and the psychological motivation to do it.”
Source: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
“Companies like Enron have learned that small investments in endowing chairs, sponsoring research programs or hiring moonlighting professors can return big payoffs in generating books, reports, articles, testimony and other materials to push for and rationalize public policy positions that damage the public interest but benefit corporate bottomlines.”
“Companies like Google, Facebook, and Apple only hire the best.”
Source: In Limbo
“Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.”
“Companies like Nike already use Graffiti as a standard variety in their marketing campaigns and the first people who read Naomi Klein's 'No Logo' were marketing gurus who wanted to know what they shouldn't do.”
“Companies made money and were beholden to stockholders; it was understandable if they tried to “cover their ass,” people told me. But the government was paid to protect people, so one could expect much more of them.”
“Companies made these decisions about encryption when they were finding it very difficult to sell their products overseas because the [Edward] Snowden disclosures created the impression that the U.S. government was inside this hardware and software produced by them. They needed to do something to deal with the perception.”
“Companies make attractive money when they solve the hardest problems.”
Source: Seeing What's Next: Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change
“Companies may never come up with a better office communication program than a lunch break.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Companies' motives to make profit means they neglect inherent social or moral values.”
“Companies must anticipate potential crises, develop response plans, and establish clear communication channels to effectively address stakeholder concerns and mitigate reputational damage.”
Source: The Virtuous Boardroom: How Ethical Corporate Governance Can Cultivate Company Success
“Companies must have a noble cause, and it's the leaders job to transform that noble cause into such an inspiring vision, that it will attract the most talented people in the world to want to join it.”
“Companies need connections to their markets to create long-term loyalty.”
Source: Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies
“Companies need to have a lot more flexibility with their people... . If somebody wants to golf around the world for two months, okay, well, maybe on an unpaid basis, let them do it. That sort of flexibility I think is incredibly important because most of our time, we spend at work.”
“Companies not interested in sustainable development issues will not survive long”
“Companies often become victims of their own mythologies.”
“Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.”