“There are people who want the comfort and structure of a job where they're given tasks and told what to do. I think it's actually a minority of people. The majority of people don't want that, but I'd say that the companies I've built are full of people with something to prove.” PeopleThinkingWantJobsGivenCompanyComfortProveBuiltTasksMajorityStructureMinorities Author:Mark Pincus
“Truly great companies are built on ideals, not just deals.” DealsCompanyBuiltIdealsAccountabilityGreat Company Author:Alan Watts
“You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training. There's no such thing as an overnight opera sensation. Great law firms or design companies don't spring up overnight... Every great company, every great brand, and every great career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little.” WayLittlesHas BeensMotivationalLawWinningBitsCompanyStepsCareersWeekDesignSpringTrainingBuiltGoldBrandsFirmSensationsOperaMedalGold MedalsGreat CompanyLaw Firms Author:Seth Godin
“Who can object to a monopoly when any new company, if it is built around a scientific nucleus, can create a new monopoly of its own by creating a wholly new field?” IfsCompanyFieldsObjectsCreatingBuiltMonopolyNucleusNew Company Author:Edwin Land
“I've built companies, I've created jobs, I know the frustration of small businesses with higher taxes.” KnowsJobsCompanyHigherTaxesBuiltFrustrationSmall Business Author:Rick Scott
“America's companies are built to destroy creativity.” AmericaCompanyCreativityBuilt Author:Millard Drexler
“In an ironic twist, I now see Good to Great not as a sequel to Built to Last, but more of a prequel. Good to Great is about how to turn a good organization into one that produces sustained great results. Built to Last is about how you take a company with great results and turn it into an enduring great company of iconic stature.” LastsTurnsResultsCompanyProduceBuiltOrganizationEndureIronicTwistsIconicStatureSequelsGreat CompanyGood To GreatGreat ResultsGood Organization Author:James C. Collins
“The attention toward me is basically because of what we've built as a company. If we built a pile of crap then nobody would care what I ate for lunch.” IfsCareAttentionCompanyBuiltLunchCrap Author:Marc Jacobs
“Most great companies in tech have been built by personal referrals for the first...at least 100 employees and often many more.” FirstsHas BeensCompanyTeamBuiltEmployeeGreat CompanyReferrals Author:Sam Altman
“We have built a company with a business mix and operating system that will allow us to deliver record results in any foreseeable economic climate, ... We have just completed a very successful management transition and I've never been more confident about the company's future.” InspirationalResultsCompanySuccessfulRecordsEconomicBuiltManagementClimateTransitionOperating SystemsEconomic Climate Author:Jack Welch
“Preserve the core, and let the rest flux. In their wonderful bestseller Built to Last, authors James Collins and Jerry Porras make a convincing argument that long-lived companies are able to thrive 50 years or more by retaining a very small heart of unchanging values, and then stimulating progress in everything else. At times "everything" includes changing the business the company operates in, migrating, say, from mining to insurance. Outside the core of values, nothing should be exempt from flux. Nothing.” ShouldYearsHeartLongAbleLastsValuesBusinessCompanyProgressWonderfulBuiltArgumentCorePreservesThriveConvincingJerryMiningFluxUnchangingRetaining Author:Kevin Kelly
“Pay-TV companies that built their businesses on the backs of local and network broadcast signals should pay a fair price for access to that high-value programming.” ShouldValuesPayCompanyTvsBuiltFairsAccessLocalsProgrammingSignals Author:Gordon Smith
“Already were seeing graduates of U.S. higher education going back to their home countries and contributing to societies there, where in the past they would have stayed in the U.S. and built new companies here. We have to have immigration reform that allows talented foreigners to become Americans.” CountryHomePastCompanySeeingHigherBuiltImmigrationReformGraduatesForeignersContributingHigher EducationImmigration ReformHome CountryNew Company Author:David Malpass
“I'm speaking to you from Silicon Valley, where some of the most prominent and successful companies have built their businesses by lulling their customers into complacency about their personal information. They're gobbling up everything they can learn about you and trying to monetize it. We think that's wrong. And it's not the kind of company that Apple wants to be.” ThinkingWantTryingKindCompanySuccessfulInformationBuiltCustomersApplesValleysComplacencyProminentSiliconSilicon ValleySuccessful CompanyPersonal Information Author:Tim Cook
“I think what people love about the Steve Jobs story is not just the track record at Apple, but that comeback story, that he was thrown out of Apple, came back and built the company even greater. And that perseverance is so important in terms of entrepreneurship. And nobody is a better role model for that, for all entrepreneurs all over the world than Steve Jobs.” PeopleThinkingWorldImportantStoriesJobsTermCompanyRolesRecordsGreaterModelsBuiltEntrepreneurPerseveranceTrackEntrepreneurshipApplesThrownRole ModelsComebackTrack Record Author:Steve Case
“Me and my family growing up, we cleared our land built our homes and all that. So, I was very well knowledgeable in the construction world. That turned into a commercial development company and construction company.” WorldWellsHomeCompanyGrowing UpGrowingLandDevelopmentBuiltMy FamilyConstructionKnowledgeableFamily Growing UpConstruction Company Author:Drew Waters
“That's what Walt Disney did, and Hewlett and Packard, and the people who built Intel. They created a company to last, not just to make money. That's what I want Apple to be.” PeopleWantLastsCompanyBuiltMaking MoneyApplesWalt Author:Steve Jobs
“You know, Dr. Edwin Land was a troublemaker. He dropped out of Harvard and founded Polaroid. Not only was he one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that. Polaroid did that for some years, but eventually Dr. Land, one of those brilliant troublemakers, was asked to leave his own company - which is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard of.” KnowsYearsArtImportantCompanySawsHeardLandBuiltOrganizationBrilliantOur TimeDrsInventorHarvardArt And ScienceIntersectionsTroublemakerPolaroidsGreat Inventors Author:Steve Jobs