“From coast to coast, the FBI and Securities and Exchange Commission have ensnared people not only at hedge funds, but at technology and pharmaceutical companies, consulting and law firms, government agencies, and even a major stock exchange.” PeopleGovernmentLawCompanyTechnologySecurityMajorsFirmAgencyFundCoastFbiConsultingPharmaceuticalStock ExchangeHedge FundGovernment AgenciesLaw FirmsPharmaceutical Companies Author:Preet Bharara
“Insider trading tells everybody at precisely the wrong time that everything is rigged, and only people who have a billion dollars and have access to and are best friends with people who are on boards of directors of major companies - they're the only ones who can make a true buck.” PeopleCompanyDirectorsMajorsDollarsAccessBillionsBoardsTradingBucksWrong TimeInsidersRiggedBoard Of DirectorsInsider Trading Author:Preet Bharara
“In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education” CompanyProductsMajorsCapitalismEnterpriseProtagonistsNew Products Book:The Spirit of Enterprise Source: The Spirit of Enterprise
“There is no excuse-and we should call a spade a spade-for chemical companies and oil refineries using our major rivers as pipelines for toxic waste. There is no excuse for communities to use other people's rivers as a dump for their raw sewage.” PeopleShouldUseCommunityCompanyWasteMajorsRiversExcuseOilChemicalsToxicNo ExcusesDumpEcoSpadesPipelineSewageToxic WasteRefinery Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“Oh, it was awful, and I vowed to myself I would never, ever push myself to the edge that much again. It was really frightening. Because absolutely everything seemed to be impossible to deal with, just little things became major - noise, if someone had a radio on, or even the sound of traffic, or being in someone's company for longer than 10 minutes - I started to find it all too much.” IfsLittlesSoundDealsCompanyToo MuchImpossibleMinutesMajorsEdgesRadioNoiseAwfulLittle ThingsFrighteningTraffic Author:Elaine Paige
“Why should how I act in my workplace be any different from how I interact with my family at home? It's making sure the company runs on feminine principles where the major ethic is care.” ShouldDifferentHomeCareRunningBusinessCompanyPrinciplesMajorsEthicsMy FamilyFeminineWorkplace Author:Anita Roddick
“In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education - not in the classroom, where the old ways are taught, but in the factories and labs where new ways are wrought ... nothing has been so rare in recent years as an Ivy League graduate who has made a significant innovation in American enterprise.” WayYearsHas BeensMadeCompanyTaughtProductsMajorsCapitalismInnovationSignificantLeagueEnterpriseGraduatesFactoriesClassroomNew WaysLabsIvyProtagonistsOld WaysNew ProductsIvy League Author:George Gilder
“The New Finance focused on the market's major systematic mistake. In failing to appreciate the strength of competitive forces in a market economy, it over estimates the length of the short run. In doing so, it overreacts to records of success and failure for individual companies, driving the prices of successful firms too high and their unsuccessful counterparts too low.” RunningIndividualForceMistakeCompanyEconomySuccessfulRecordsFailingMajorsLowsAppreciateFocusedDrivingFinanceFirmLengthSuccess And FailureSystematicUnsuccessfulCounterpartsMarket Economy Author:Robert Haugen
“Innovation requires resources to invest, and you can see many companies pulling back and going into an intense protective mode in a major extended period of financial distress.” CompanyPeriodsMajorsResourcesInnovationFinancialIntensePullingDistressProtective Author:Peter Senge
“Some years ago one oil company bought a fertilizer company, and every other major oil company practically ran out and bought a fertilizer company. And there was no more damned reason for all these oil companies to buy fertilizer companies, but they didn't know exactly what to do, and if Exxon was doing it, it was good enough for Mobil and vice versa.” IfsKnowsYearsReasonEnoughCompanyMajorsYears AgoVicesOilRanGood EnoughVice VersaOil CompaniesFertilizer Author:Charlie Munger
“Were the only major company in the U.S. that is solely in the professional beauty industry. We promised hairdressers when we started that we would stay with them. If I went retail tomorrow then we would be four times our size overnight, but Im going to be the one guy who kept his word.” IfsWould BeGuyCompanyFourIndustryTomorrowMajorsSizeRetailHairdresserBeauty Industry Author:John Paul DeJoria
“The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their eventual downfall. Dont blame others for your own inadequacies.” FeelsUseCompanyMajorsBlameThreatExcusePredatorDownfallInadequacy Author:Greg Ginn
“I begin by looking for megatrends, changes in the world that will create major new demands. My goal is to create a company that can be there to meet those demands.” WorldGoalCompanyDemandMajors Author:Rodney Brooks
“There are so many parallels in society today [with era of J. Edgar Hoover ] that you can use, whether it's the head of a studio or the head of an organization, a major newspaper, a major factory or company, of people who stay too long, maybe, and overstay their usefulness.” PeopleLongUseTodayCompanyMajorsOrganizationStudiosNewspapersErasFactoriesParallelsUsefulnessHooverSociety TodayJ Edgar Hoover Author:Clint Eastwood
“Challenge America grants go to the towns and hamlets of this sprawling country, where big touring companies will rarely go, and major actors, actresses, writers and artists may never appear in person.” MayPersonsCountryBigsAmericaArtistActorsChallengesCompanyMajorsTownsActressesGrantsTouring Author:Louise Slaughter
“I am absolutely confident that St. Louis can attract major players in technology and make the companies that are here blossom.” CompanyTechnologyPlayerMajors Author:Jim McKelvey
“Piracy is a huge, huge issue for all of these major content companies, and everybody has a different way of addressing it.” WayDifferentCompanyIssuesHugeMajorsDifferent WaysPiracy Author:Anne Sweeney
“If I was going to go into an office I wanted it to be with people I would choose to be around even if we didn't have to work together and so that was one of the major reasons why I decided out of all the different companies we invested in to work with Zappos.” PeopleIfsDifferentReasonWantedTogetherCompanyOfficeMajorsDecidedReason WhyWorking Together Author:Tony Hsieh
“Artists have so much more control of their futures - they don't need to rely so much on major labels or big companies to help them. You have artists like Skrillex that can dominate so much that he gets 5 Grammy nominees, and he's clearly an underground artist.” NeedsHelpingBigsArtistCompanyMajorsLabelsRelyGrammyBig Companies Author:Steve Aoki
“The Carlyle Group is the most politically connected investment firm in the world. The company has mastered the art of influence peddling on a global scale, hiring executives and consultants ranging from Republican power broker James Baker and former president George Herbert Walker Bush to foreign leaders like former British prime minister John Major and former Philippine president Fidel Ramos.” WorldArtPresidentCompanyLeaderGroupsInfluenceRepublicanMajorsInvestmentConnectedBritishScalesFormerFirmMinistersExecutivesPrimePrime MinisterHiringPhilippinesWalkersBakersConsultantsBrokersPeddling Author:William Hartung
“The stock market goes nuts over any company that so much as mentions the word Internet. All this proves to me is that the boneheads on Wall Street are as dumb as they were in college when they had to switch their majors to business to keep from flunking out.” CompanyStreetsCollegeWallInternetProveMajorsDumbNutsProve To MeFlunking Author:John C. Dvorak