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“Picking winners among the many young companies seeking money is a tough business, even for the most sophisticated investors. Indeed, most professionally run venture funds lose money. For individuals, it's pure folly. Buy a lottery ticket instead. Your chance of winning is likely to be higher.”

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Author:Steven Rattner

“The main social responsibility for a company is to win.”

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Author:Jack Welch

“You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training. There's no such thing as an overnight opera sensation. Great law firms or design companies don't spring up overnight... Every great company, every great brand, and every great career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little.”

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Author:Seth Godin

“Running a successful, growing company in Silicon Valley can create an ironic sort of depression and delusion. The better you're doing, the higher the stakes, and higher expectations for you to win. Maybe that's why people say it's so hard. But that doesn't make it hard. That just makes it distracting.”

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Author:David Ulevitch

“The whole time I was a union leader, we had to put up with John Howard and Tony Abbott attacking workers' conditions. I'm proud of being a moderate trade union official, working co-operatively between employees and employers. I'm interested in better wages for workers, better safety, job security, and, profitable companies, because I understand that if you get co-operation in the workplace, everyone wins.”

“Yes, I direct commercials as well. I get these really weird offers and then I have to bid on them and win the job. One offer that I have now, and I've already done this last year for the same company, is for Cash Value Cheese, this cheese out in the midwest. I did two spots for them last year and I'm going to probably do three this year. I also did some for the Utah Transit Authority, which was weird and interesting and they turned out really funny - they actually won an award.”

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Author:Andy Dick

“A company has only so much money and managerial time. Winning leaders invest where the payback is the highest. They cut their losses everywhere else.”

Winning Loss Company Leader Cutting Highest Payback

Book:Winning: The Ultimate Business How-To Book

Source: Winning: The Ultimate Business How-To Book

“Without doubt, there are lots of ways to measure the pulse of a business. But if you have employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow right, you can be sure your company is healthy and on the way to winning.”

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Author:Jack Welch

“Many wonderful, creative people have won Oscars, so if you win one, you're in their company.”

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Author:David Cronenberg

“The company owner doesn't need to win. The best idea does.”

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Book:The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization

Source: The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization

“Swiss watchmaking and Silicon Valley is a marriage of technological innovation with watchmaking credibility. Our collaboration provides a rich host of synergies, forming a win-win partnership, and the potential for our three companies is enormous.”

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Author:Jean-Claude Biver

“You will never ever, in any circumstance, win any struggle at any time. That being said, we have a long way to go. At the moment, the battle over network neutrality is not to completely eliminate the telephone and cable companies. We are not at that point yet. But the ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control.”

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Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“You have to save the vision speeches for when the company is winning. When you're not winning, you just have to get momentum back.”

Winning Company Vision Speech Momentum

Author:Sam Altman

“Let's face it: Most companies in most industries have a kind of tunnel vision. They chase the same opportunities that everyone else is chasing, they miss the same opportunities that everyone else is missing. It's the companies that see a different game that win big. The most important question for innovators today is: What do you see that the competition doesn't see?”

“As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains.”

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Book:The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States

Source: The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States