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“I don't think that Mitt Romney can legitimately say that he learned anything about how to create jobs in the LBO (leveraged buyout) business. The LBO business is about how to strip cash out of old, long-in-the-tooth companies and how to make short-term profits. All the jobs that he talks about came from Staples. That was a very early venture stage deal. That, you know they got out of long before it got to its current size.”

Thinking Knows Long Jobs Term Deals Company Stage Republican Size Profit Currents Teeth Cash Venture Short Term Romney Staples

Author:David Stockman

“Big Internet companies on average are capable of generating revenue of $1 million per employee, and that compares to 10 to 20 percent of that which is normally generated by traditional offline businesses of comparable size.”

Bigs Company Millions Internet Capable Percent Average Size Traditional Compare Employee Revenue Offline

Author:Yuri Milner

“In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny.”

World Company Size Tiny Mediums Eras Globalization Multinationals World Is Flat

Author:Thomas Friedman

“Unusually rapid growth cannot keep up forever; when a company has already registered a brilliant expansion, its very increase in size makes a repetition of its achievement more difficult.”

Difficult Growth Company Forever Achievement Increase Size Brilliant Expansion Repetition Rapids Rapid Growth

Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“What an investor needs is the ability to correctly evaluate selected businesses. Note that word “selected”: You don't have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital.”

Needs Important Able Ability Company Knowing Notes Size Circles Boundaries Experts Investors Competence Evaluate Selected

Author:Warren Buffett

“These companies know that at their current size they're not going to be big enough to have the necessary capital, and they don't have enough spectrum to get to the third generation.”

Knows Enough Bigs Sports Company Generations Thirds Size Currents Spectrum

Author:Steve Largent

“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.”

Wisdom Politics Force Company Economy Impact Size Corporations Liberalism Chemicals Fascinated Electric Morale Sears Lowes Electric Power Esops

Author:Robert S. Strauss

“Well, you have to understand where we came from. We are not here because we decided 10 years ago that we were going to be x-size company, and, oh, yeah, Jackson would be a good headquarters. We work here in Mississippi because we started here, and we are certainly happy here. Those of us working out of Jackson intend to continue working out of Jackson.”

Years Wells Would Be Company Economy Years Ago Decided Yeah Size Work Out Mississippi Headquarters Where We Came

Author:Bernard Ebbers

“And our size: The company this year is going to be close to $50 billion, so if that's the case and you can continue to grow that fast, I would rather put my energies to solving customer problems and growing our business than worrying about integrating and laying people off.”

People Ifs Years Problem Energy Grows Company Cases Worry Economy Growing Size Customers Billions Integrating

Author:Kevin B. Rollins

“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.”

Ifs Would Be Guy Company Four Industry Tomorrow Majors Size Retail Hairdresser Beauty Industry

Author:John Paul DeJoria

“To operate a company of the size of Sears Holdings or Wal-Mart or Target or Home Depot or Lowes, you need a combination of skills, and each of those skills needs to be sufficiently strong.”

Needs Home Strong Company Skills Size Combination Target Sears Lowes

Author:Edward Lampert

“To tell the truth days are all the same size and words aren't much company.”

Company Size Telling The Truth

Author:Anne Sexton

“If you manage a team of 10 people, its quite possible to do so with very few mistakes or bad behaviors. If you manage an organization of 1,000 people it is quite impossible. At a certain size, your company will do things that are so bad that you never imagined that youd be associated with that kind of incompetence.”

People Ifs Kind Certain Mistake Company Impossible Team Behavior Organization Size Manage Incompetence Bad Behavior

Author:Ben Horowitz

“Learn to shrink yourself to the size of the company you are in. Take their tone, whatever it may be, and excell in it if you can;but never pretend to give the tone. A free conversation will no more bear a dictator than a free government will.”

Ifs Giving May Government Company Bears Conversation Size Tone Dictator Shrinks Free Government

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“It is not size that counts in business. Some companies with $500,000 capital net more profits than other companies with $5,000,000. Size is a handicap unless efficiency goes with it.”

Company Size Profit Efficiency Handicaps

Author:Herbert Newton Casson

“As the company grows and about this 25 or so employee size, your main job shifts from building a great product to building a great company.”

Jobs Grows Company Building Products Size Employee Great Company

Author:Sam Altman

“The central challenge for any company, regardless of its size, is to keep doing a better job for its customers.”

Jobs Challenges Company Size Customers Better Jobs

Author:Ralph Nader