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“One of the marked characteristics of the U.K. security industry as compared with defence is the lack of company scale. This can put our firms at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to big contracts.”

Bigs Company Security Industry Scales Firm Characteristics Contracts Defence Disadvantages

Author:Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

“Northleaf is delighted to have been chosen to manage the new fund. We look forward to implementing the fund's long-term strategy of constructing a portfolio of high-potential venture capital funds with the scale and resources to execute their plans, support successful high-growth companies and deliver world-class returns.”

“A capitalist is someone who derives a substantial share of his income from his equity in producing companies. On this scale the figures are discouraging. Approximately ninety percent of the capital of this country is owned by five or less percent of the American people.”

People Country Wisdom Politics Company Economy Five Share Figures Percent Scales Income Liberalism Capitalist Equity Ninety Discouraging

Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.

“Technology has made it easier for different firms to coordinate their activities with one another, and they don't have to be part of one company. They can get the benefits of scale without the inertia of scale.”

Made Different Company Technology Easier Activity Benefits Scales Made It Firm Inertia Coordinates

Author:Erik Brynjolfsson

“It used to be that companies with industrial economies of scale created business success. Now, success will come from the information economies of scale, either the ones with complete breadth, or complete depth.”

Used Company Economy Information Depth Scales Used To Be Business Success Breadth

Author:Tucker Max

“Henry Ford has several times sneered at unproductive stockholders.... Well, now. Let's see. Who made Henry Ford's own automobile company possible? The stockholders who originally advanced money to him. Who makes it possible for you and me to be carried to and from business by train or street car? Stockholders.... Who made our vast telephone and telegraph service possible? Stockholders.... Were stockholders all over the country to withdraw their capital from the enterprises in which they are invested, there would be a panic ... on a scale never before known.”

Wells Made Country Would Be Company Known Streets Car Train Scales Enterprise Panic Telephones Automobile Unproductive Telegraph

Author:B. C. Forbes

“Wait until companies have an initial prototype, have shown that they have the potential to be profitable and have the ability to scale. That's the best time to invest.”

Waiting Ability Company Investing Scales Initials Profitable Best Times Prototype

Author:Dave McClure

“Later, you should learn to hire fast and scale up the company, but in the early days the goal should be not to hire. Not to hire.”

Should Goal Company Team Scales

Author:Sam Altman

“As the company scales, everybody is not going to get invited to every single meeting, but they're gonna want to go to every meeting.”

Want Company Meetings Scales Invited

Author:Keith Rabois

“The way you scale that is you create notes for every meeting and send it to the entire company.”

Way Company Meetings Notes Scales

Author:Keith Rabois

“I'm amazed by the potential of more companies employing integrated philanthropic initiatives at earlier stages in their life cycle. What if this were done on an even more massive scale? Consider what would happen if a top-tier venture-capital firm required the companies in which it invested to place 1% of their equity into a foundation serving the communities in which they do business.”

Source: The Business of Changing the World: Twenty Great Leaders on Strategic Corporate Philanthropy

“A company that cannot successfully implement the 5S's cannot expect to effectively integrate JIT, re-engineering, or any other large-scale change. Good workplaces develop beginning with the 5S's. Bad workplaces fall apart beginning with the 5S's.”

Fall Company Scales Engineering Good Work Workplace Falling Apart Integrating Large Scale

Author:Hiroyuki Hirano

“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.”