“When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices. You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections - the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?” WorldYearsMightAblePoliticalChoicesSocialLosesCompanyOpinionSharePositionConnectionsMeaningfulPostsConsumersDominantSocial NetworkPolitical Opinions Author:Al Franken
“But maybe because the dot-com world gives people positions at a younger age, and many women are prominent in this business, it will help change the view about who can run big companies.” PeopleWorldGivingHelpingBigsRunningAgeViewsCompanyEconomyPositionDotsProminentBig Companies Author:Christie Hefner
“There are advantages to being the chairman. One of my favorite perks was picking out an issue and doing what I called a "deep dive." It's spotting a challenge where you think you can make a difference - one that looks like it would be fun - and then throwing the weight of your position behind it. Some might justifiably call it "meddling." I've often done this just about everywhere in the company.” ThinkingLooksDoneMightWould BeFunChallengesDifferencesBehindsCompanyIssuesPositionAdvantageWeightMy FavoriteMaking A DifferenceThrowingChairmanPerksMeddlingYou Can Make A Difference Author:Jack Welch
“A price decline is of no real importance to the bona fide investor unless it is either very substantial say, more than a third from cost or unless it reflects a known deterioration of consequence in the company's position. In a well-defined bear market many sound common stocks sell temporarily at extraordinary low prices. It is possible that the investor may then have a paper loss of fully 50 per cent on some of his holdings, without any convincing indication that the underlying values have been permanently affected.” WellsMayHas BeensRealValuesSoundLossCommonCompanyKnownPositionBearsCostPaperLowsConsequenceThirdsImportanceSellsExtraordinaryDefinedAffectedInvestorsDeclineCentsConvincingIndicationDeterioration Author:Benjamin Graham
“It's the first company to build the mental position that has the upper hand, not the first company to make the product. IBM didn't invent the computer; Sperry Rand did. But IBM was the first to build the computer position in the prospect's mind.” MindFirstsHandsCompanyPositionProductsComputerIbmUpper Hand Author:Al Ries
“What is your position at the company? Right back.” CompanyPlayerPositionFootballSoccer Author:Jason McAteer
“This world is changing enormously. In any position in a company you need to work very hard on learning new skills every day, but you also need to unlearn some of the old skills from the past.” WorldNeedsHardPastCompanyPositionThis WorldSkillsUnlearnLearning NewNew SkillsLearning New Skills Author:Paul Polman
“Never put yourself in a position that will put yourself at risk if you make the wrong decision. We spent cash on everything. It's fashionable to make 'bet the company' decisions, but don't do it.” IfsDecisionCompanyRiskPositionCashFashionableWrong Decision Author:Joel Spolsky
“In the biggest companies, seek out the most useless positions: those in consultancy, appraisal, research, and study. The more useless your position, the less possible it will be to assess your 'contribution to the firm's assets.” WorkBusinessCompanyStudyPositionResearchUselessFirmContributionAssetsAppraisal Book:Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay Source: Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay
“Whether you're moving to a new company or a new department within your current organization, I believe you'll end up miles ahead if you shop for a boss, not a position. You may secure the greatest job in the world, but a miserable boss will turn gold into ashes. ... In many ways, your boss may be more important than the job.” IfsWorldWayBelieveMayImportantEndsJobsMovingTurnsI BelieveWorkCompanyPositionGoldOrganizationCurrentsMilesSecureMiserableDepartmentShopsBossAshesNew Company Author:Pat Heim
“It seems that it is only in the United States that an almost masochistic attack on the position of its own oil companies exists.” StatesSeemsUnitedMoneyCompanyUnited StatesPositionOilOil CompaniesMasochistic Author:John J. McCloy
“By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company.” FirstsLongCompanyFateWorstPositionDrawingEmploymentChiefsHatedIronyTelephonesSecuredAnnoyanceElectrician Author:Nikola Tesla
“As a result of overdiversification, their (active managers) returns get watered down. Diversification covers up ignorance. Active managers haven't done enough research into any of their companies. If managers have 200 positions, do you think they know what's going on at any one of those companies at this moment?” IfsThinkingKnowsDoneEnoughMomentsResultsCompanyHavensPositionIgnoranceReturnResearchInvestingActiveManagersCover UpsDiversification Author:Bill Ackman
“Before you can create a strategy, you need a vision of the company. Before you set that vision for the future, you have to understand your current position in the market as well as your limitations.” NeedsWellsCompanyVisionPositionStrategyCurrentsLimitation Author:Stan Shih
“If there's a big problem and you've got the right people with you, usually the answer emerges and you do what's the obvious thing to do. I don't think of myself as some great manager or great leader. I've been very lucky to be in the positions that I've been in. I meet a lot of people and I've grown a lot of companies, and I meet a lot of CEOs at big enterprises. I'm always so surprised at how much they seem to know. It doesn't always seem to be correlated to how well they actually do.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWellsProblemBigsSeemsAnswersBusinessCompanyLeaderPositionLuckyObviousManagersThings To DoGreat MenEnterpriseCeoGreat LeaderBig ProblemsObvious ThingsGreat Managers Author:Larry Brilliant
“I am certain that we do not need quotas for women, especially not in a time when we have a growing shortage of qualified workers. Companies are already asking head hunters to find women for top positions.” NeedsCertainCompanyGrowingPositionAskingWorkersHuntersQualifiedShortageQuota Author:Kristina Schroder
“A person at an eminent position does not need money. A chairman of a big company or something like that, I can’t buy him and the country does not have enough money to ‘buy’ him.” NeedsPersonsDoeI CanCountryEnoughBigsCompanyPositionChairmanBig CompaniesNeed Money Author:Arnon Milchan
“War is like a game of chess ... but with this little difference, that in chess you may think over each move as long as you please and are not limited for time, and with this difference too, that a knight is always stronger than a pawn, and two pawns are always stronger than one, while in war a battalion is sometimes stronger than a division and sometimes weaker than a company. The relative strength of bodies of troops can never be known to anyone.... Success never depends, and never will depend, on position, or equipment, or even on numbers, and least of all on position.” ThinkingMayLittlesLongTwoWarSometimesBodyMovingGamesDifferencesNumbersCompanyKnownPositionDependsPleaseStrongerChessDivisionRelativeTroopsEquipmentKnightsPawns Author:Leo Tolstoy