“Toy companies aren't interested in ideology, they want to sell toys. If they would sell a toy that both boys and girls would buy, it doubles profits.” IfsWantGirlCompanyBoysSellsProfitIdeologyToysBoy And Girl Author:Christina Hoff Sommers
“I'm not the cool thing, and I'm not going to be the cool thing for a really long time, and it isn't like I'm not the cool thing and I sell 3,000,000 records every time. I'm not the cool thing, and I barely sell 150,000 records, if that, ever. So I'm obviously working really hard to sustain myself. I'm actually a target to be dropped, because that's just not enough records for a big company.” IfsLongHardEnoughBigsCompanyRecordsLong TimeSellsTargetCool ThingsReally LongBig CompaniesWorking Really Hard Author:Ryan Adams
“I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company.” ThinkingIdeasCompanyPlansSellsGood Ideas Author:Elon Musk
“I would never suggest anyone to stay at a company more than six or seven years. We grow as individuals and the world is moving so fast. Typically, I'll always sell a piece of each of my companies along the way.” WorldWayYearsMovingIndividualGrowsCompanyPiecesSixSellsSevenSeven Years Author:J. Christopher Burch
“I think everyone should sell whatever product they want to sell for whatever price they want to sell it for, but ultimately the market will dictate what it is and people will have to charge less money for everything. Record companies have been overcharging people for way too long and now this is the trouble that they're in.” PeopleThinkingWayWantShouldLongHas BeensCompanyRecordsTroubleProductsSellsRecord CompaniesOvercharging Author:Black Francis
“I hate it when people call themselves 'entrepreneurs' when what they're really trying to do is launch a startup and then sell of go public, so they can cash in and move on. They're unwilling to do the work it takes to build a real company, which is the hardest work in business.” PeopleTryingRealMovingHateCompanyI HateSellsEntrepreneurHardestWorking ItCashUnwilling Author:Steve Jobs
“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
“I think the celebrity author trend reflects, at least in part, the growing influence of marketing departments at publishing companies. The emphasis becomes on the easy sell, as opposed to finding the best quality and writing and illustrating. There are exceptions (I like John Lithgow's stuff, for example), but a lot of it is putrid, and the best of it is often ghostwritten. Save the ink. Save the trees. Save our brain cells.” ThinkingWritingEasyStuffBrainQualityCompanyGrowingTreeInfluenceExampleFindingsSellsMarketingCellsDepartmentExceptionTrendsPublishingEmphasisInkBrain CellsIllustrating Author:Jabari Asim
“Without investments in research and science that will create the next Apple, create the next new innovation that will sell products around the world, we will lose. If we're not training engineers to make sure that they are equipped here in this country, then companies won't come here. Those investments are what's going to help to make sure that we continue to lead this world economy not just next year, but 10 years from now, 50 years from now, a hundred years from now.” IfsWorldYearsCountryHelpingNextLosesCompanyEconomyThis WorldProductsTrainingResearchHundredInnovationSellsInvestmentAround The WorldApplesEngineersNext YearWorld Economy Author:Barack Obama
“I think bands will actually make more money without record companies; a much bigger share of the money will go to the bands. You won't have record shops taking 40 percent of the money. You won't have record labels taking 40 percent of the money. So they don't have to sell as many albums as they used to in the past. So it's not necessarily a bad thing if record companies disappear.” IfsThinkingPastUsedCompanyRecordsShareBandPercentBiggerSellsAlbumsDisappearLabelsShopsBad ThingsMore MoneyRecord CompaniesRecord Labels Author:Richard Branson
“Companies are increasingly taking responsibility for the safety of the food they sell, rather than risk their brand on a large recall.” ResponsibilityCompanyRiskSafetySellsBrandsRecallsTaking Responsibility Author:Andy Kennedy
“I've been pounding the table here for a year or so saying there's no free lunch, and there is going to be a day of reckoning for every company that thinks they are going to try and sell a free model.” ThinkingTryingYearsCompanyModelsTablesSellsLunchReckoningFree Lunch Author:Darl McBride
“He [Steve Jobs] had more of the future vision: We can bring this to everyone; we can start a company; we can sell it.” JobsCompanyVisionSells Author:Steve Wozniak
“I worked a telemarketing job. I always worked those because I always knew how to talk to people and I always knew how to sell because my father was a salesman. He used to sell vacuum cleaners, payroll services to companies, so that was natural for me to go into sales.” PeopleJobsUsedFatherNaturalCompanySellsVacuumsSalesmanCleanersPayroll Author:Kanye West
“If you work at an insurance company that sells premiums you wouldn't even sell to your mother, how happy would you feel to work there? It's going to eat you up. It might last a few years, but it doesn't attract the best people, and it certainly doesn't create the energy and engagement you need to be a long-term performing company.” PeopleIfsNeedsFeelsYearsLongMightLastsMotherEnergyTermCompanySellsPerformingLong TermEngagementInsurance Companies Author:Paul Polman
“The company that employed me strived only to serve up the cheapest fare that the customer would tolerate, churn it out as fast as possible, and charge as much as they could get away with. If it were possible to do so, the company would sell what all businesses of its kind dream about selling, creating that which all of our efforts were tacitly supposed to achieve: the ultimate product -- Nothing. And for this product they would command the ultimate price -- Everything.” IfsKindDreamEffortCompanyAchieveProductsCreatingUltimateSellsCustomersSellingCommandGet AwayTolerateEmployed Author:Thomas Ligotti
“Making media companies that you hope to sell is not a lot of fun for anyone who cares deeply about making media.” CareFunCompanyMediaSellsWho Cares Author:John Battelle
“My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from the street. He was homeless, but eventually he got a car so he could sell from the boot. And by the 1980s, he was a millionaire wholesaling to companies like Topshop. So in a way, fashion put me in England.” WayFirstsPersonsCompanyStreetsFashionCarEnglandSellsBrownBootsHomelessUncles1960sMillionaireLanesTopshop Author:M.I.A.
“Resolution Trust Company was set up to liquidate a bunch of assets that the government had inherited because the savings and loans went broke. So the savings and loans went broke, the government stepped in, paid off depositors, and now they're left with this mass of assets to sell. We're not talking about selling here, we're talking about buying intelligently. They were selling what they got handed to them by a bunch of savings and loan operators that had in many cases had done some very dumb thing. But their job was to liquidate it. And they liquidated.” DoneGovernmentJobsLeftCompanyTalkingCasesMassPaidSellsBunchSellingSavingBrokeDumbBuyingResolutionAssetsLoanSavingsNot TalkingOperatorsPaid OffDumb Things Author:Howard Warren Buffett
“I remember my sense of shock some half-dozen years ago when I read a recommendation to sell shares of a company ... The recommendation was not based on any long-term fundamentals. Rather, it was that over the next six months the funds could be employed more profitably elsewhere.” YearsLongRememberNextTermHalfCompanyShareMonthsSixYears AgoFundamentalsSellsInvestingLong TermShockFundDozenElsewhereEmployedSix MonthsRecommendations Author:Philip Arthur Fisher
“Even in those earlier times, finding the really outstanding companies and staying with them through all the fluctuations of a gyrating market proved far more profitable to far more people than did the more colorful practice of trying to buy them cheap and sell them dear.” PeopleTryingCompanyPracticeFindingsSellsInvestingDearStayingProfitableOutstandingColorfulFluctuation Author:Philip Arthur Fisher
“Before selling, try to re-evaluate the company again and see where the stock sells in realtion to its book value.” TryingBookValuesCompanySellsInvestingSellingEvaluate Author:Walter Schloss
“The Internet moves us closer to "perfect information" on markets. Individuals and companies alike can buy and sell across borders and jurisdictions wherever they find the best match of supply and demand.” MovingIndividualPerfectCompanyInformationInternetDemandSellsBordersJurisdictionSupply And Demand Author:Milton Friedman
“They can bring the technology in, then you can sell to the enterprise when they want to have better control, better security... you still have the same biz model as a traditional enterprise sw company, but the way to get into the company is through the end user.” WayWantStillsEndsCompanyTechnologySecurityBuildingModelsSellsTraditionalEnterpriseUsers Author:Aaron Levie
“A monopoly granted either to an individual or to a trading company has the same effect as a secret in trade or manufactures. The monopolists, by keeping the market constantly understocked, by never fully supplying the effectual demand, sell their commodities much above the natural price, and raise their emoluments, whether they consist in wages or profit, greatly above their natural rate.” IndividualNaturalSecretCompanyEffectsDemandRaisesTradeSellsCompetitionRateProfitGrantedCommodityWagesTradingMonopoly Book:Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings Source: Adam Smith: Selected Philosophical Writings
“When you're working on a game that has a budget of tens of millions of dollars and you have to sell millions and millions and millions of copies to break even, you have a lot more layers between you and the audience. You have a marketing department, and there's a different marketing department for every continent, and the parent company has stockholders, and all that kind of stuff.” KindDifferentGamesStuffParentCompanyBreakMillionsAudienceSellsDollarsMarketingBudgetsDepartmentCopiesLayersContinentsBreak Even Author:Steve Gaynor
“Yes, virus companies are playing on your fears to try to sell you bs protection software for Android, RIM and IOS. They are charlatans and scammers. IF you work for a company selling virus protection for android, rim or IOS you should be ashamed of yourself.” IfsShouldTryingCompanySellsProtectionSellingAshamedSoftwareVirusesRimsCharlatansAndroidsIos Author:Chris DiBona
“Companies made these decisions about encryption when they were finding it very difficult to sell their products overseas because the [Edward] Snowden disclosures created the impression that the U.S. government was inside this hardware and software produced by them. They needed to do something to deal with the perception.” MadeGovernmentDifficultDecisionDealsCompanyProductsNeededFindingsPerceptionSellsImpressionSoftwareHardwareDisclosureSnowdenEncryption Author:Michael Morell
“Well, my motivation behind Tesla is really to do as much good as possible for the environment and the electric-vehicle revolution. I think there is still a lot of work to do and if we were to sell to a big company, I'm not sure it would progress at the same pace.” IfsThinkingWellsStillsBigsMotivationBehindsCompanyEnvironmentProgressRevolutionSellsNot SurePaceVehicleElectricBig CompaniesTeslaElectric Vehicles Author:Elon Musk