“Every entrepreneur faces trade-offs when founding and growing their company. As we discovered at YouTube, those early decisions have far-reaching impacts and lead to unforeseen pitfalls down the road. Noam Wasserman uses vivid anecdotes and deep research to expertly outline the key early choices that define a startup, making The Founder's Dilemmas an invaluable alternative to real-world trial and error.” WorldRealUseFacesChoicesDecisionCompanyGrowingKeysResearchTradeImpactEntrepreneurErrorsTrialsAlternativesReachingReal WorldFoundersFoundingVividFalling DownYoutubeDilemmaOutlinesDown The RoadInvaluableAnecdotesTrial And ErrorPitfallsUnforeseenTrade Offs Author:Chad Hurley
“Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.” ValuesCultureCompanyAchievementPerformancesOvercomingImpactProfoundLeavingObstaclesExpecting Author:Carlos Ghosn
“The "patron saint" of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.” IdeasCountryBigsQualityCompanyImpactSaintPatronBig ImpactQuality Control Author:Akio Morita
“The social and economic impact of innovative American researchers, companies, and workers over the course of U.S. history have been enormous.” Has BeensCoursesSocialCompanyEconomicImpactWorkersEnormousInnovativeResearchers Author:Robert Hormats
“The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy.” MatterHelpingUseTodayProcessLinesCompanyEnvironmentDevelopmentResearchConcernImpactEnvironmentalBottomBottom LineEcologicalResearch And DevelopmentEnvironmental Impact Author:Daniel Goleman
“I am fascinated to hear of the impact that ESOPs have had on work-force morale in corporations of all sizes such as Sears Roebuck, Potomac Electric Power, Lowe's Companies and the Dow Chemical Company.” WisdomPoliticsForceCompanyEconomyImpactSizeCorporationsLiberalismChemicalsFascinatedElectricMoraleSearsLowesElectric PowerEsops Author:Robert S. Strauss
“Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world.” PeopleWorldWayCompanyEconomySucceedImpactBillsChanging The WorldGatesShareholders Author:Steve Ballmer
“... except in the eyes of a few fanatics (untrustworthy as all lovers) an unmitigated expanse of water is dull even when blue: not in a small boat, where you are part of the winds and currents and tides and are allowed to hold the tiller now and then; but from those decks which the shipping companies with subconscious insight try to make as suburban as possible so that the impact of the monster outside may be lessened, and where the unrecognized boredom is so deep that a wispy smear of smoke on the horizon will queue up a crowd as if for a Valkyrie passing.” IfsTryingMayEyeWaterCompanyWindLoversBlueImpactCurrentsCrowdsInsightMonstersPassingPassingsBoatSmokeBoredomDullHorizonWhere You AreTidesNow And ThenSubconsciousFanaticsDeckExpanseShippingQueuesUntrustworthy Author:Freya Stark
“Every now and then I love to invest in a company that may not set the world on fire, but has the chance to establish itself, create jobs and have a positive impact.” WorldMayJobsChanceCompanyFireImpactNow And ThenPositive Impact Author:Mark Cuban
“When a company creates a product that directly or indirectly adversely impacts the health of people, that product must be regulated. The process by which its created must be regulated. No company has the right to injure people. No company.” PeopleProcessCompanyProductsImpact Author:Kenneth C. Griffin
“Sooner or later, you will see a China-based company that really has a global impact, and I think Baidu has a chance to become one of those companies. We should be able to compete on a global basis.” ThinkingShouldAbleChanceCompanyBasesImpactChinaSooner Or Later Author:Robin Li
“With Fresh Healthy Vending growing by the day, my role is ever-evolving, just as the company is, and I intend to take on any necessary responsibilities in order to make a positive impact and spread a message we all believe in so strongly.” BelieveOrderResponsibilityCompanyRolesGrowingHealthyMessagesImpactSpreadEvolvePositive Impact Author:Steve Finley
“Most people will solve the problems they know how to solve. Roughly speaking they will solve B+ problems instead of A+ problems. A+ problems are high impact problems for your company but they're difficult problems.” PeopleKnowsProblemDifficultCompanyKnow HowImpactSolveDifficult Problems Author:Keith Rabois