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I loved my childhood. They had the coolest toys back then. Star Wars, Transformers, laser-tag gun sets. Toy companies have really gone downhill.
When you get into investing, your default stance should be 'No,' because most deals suck. Most deals won't make money. Most companies will fail.
The New York City police department is more representative of the city it serves than most law firms, university faculties, and media companies.
I think it's unfair to say that Chinese companies are squeezing out American companies. China has so many solar companies that are failing, too.
When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
The best way to make money is to have more economic freedom, which is why we are one of the very few large companies that are consistently for it.
The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power.
If Japanese companies don't reform drastically and implement English as their daily business language, the economy will only continue to contract.
We're identical twins. We've done mostly everything together our entire lives. We own our companies together. As kids we were doing the same jobs.
People and companies make mistakes. I guarantee we'll make a mistake next quarter. So what? Businesses make mistakes. Hopefully smaller, and fewer.
My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims.
Most pesticides lose their efficacy after a few years, because of pest resistance to pesticides. This is why companies go on changing the varieties.
The Web 2.0 world is defined by new ways of understanding ourselves, of creating value in our culture, of running companies, and of working together.
The best remote companies I've seen do almost everything online, via email and telephone. But they also get together face to face on a regular basis.
Many Chinese companies are run like military camps with military discipline. We do not run a company that way. It does not help the creative process.
Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.
Companies that make keys, credit card companies, any company in the service business - anything to do with a consumer is probably a software company.
The real competitive advantage will come to countries and companies who differentiate their offerings through education, innovation, and productivity.
History suggests that attempts to privatize Medicare by relying on private companies to offer Medicare benefits in rural America simply will not work.
Allocating coal linkage to a generating company rather than to a specific plant gives companies the freedom to use the fuel in the most efficient way.
Browbeating the tech industry for a problem that does not exist also draws attention away from the real problems with Google and other tech companies.
All companies incur expenses, some of which are fixed and bear no relation to sales volumes. In this way, profits can grow at a faster rate than sales.
Insurance companies pay big bucks for procedures but next to nothing for patient consultations and preventive medicine, which is what most medicine is.
As a professor of marketing, I have a professional interest in examining how companies create integrated messages when communicating a corporate image.
We have no exposure in Europe and not made any finances to the companies there. So the question of Greek debt crisis impacting the bank does not arise.
Entrepreneurs have a great ability to create change, be flexible, build companies and cultivate the kind of work environment in which they want to work.
Techstars has done a great job accelerating and providing venture capital to the most promising companies to make the biggest long-term economic impact.
I think many of the companies that have tried to create social worlds have failed because they approached it strictly from an opportunistic perspective.
The paradox explored in my book 'The Innovator's Dilemma' is that successful companies can fail by making the 'right' decisions in the wrong situations.
It's time we update the laws so that online platforms are held to the same transparency standards as other companies that sell political advertisements.
Some companies use off-balance-sheet partnerships to raise money or to buy assets without ever telling their shareholders in their financial statements.
Wipro is one of the fastest growing companies regionally and globally, and I am personally very excited with our journey in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic.
Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big.
It's not just a hurricane. It's the demand for gas in China... We're paying $3 a gallon, and the oil companies are making historic profits every quarter.
It is U.S. workers who lose out when employers cannot get the high-tech graduates they need to compete with foreign companies in the 21st century economy.
China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.
Product downsizing in the face of inflation in order to maintain retail price points has long been used by food companies, notably manufacturers of candy.
If Americans could legally access prescription drugs outside the United States, then drug companies would be forced to re-evaluate their pricing strategy.
The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business.
Traditional companies have to start looking into themselves to offer more opportunities in their companies by starting new subsidiaries and joint ventures.
In our early days, being recognized on any list of great companies was hard to imagine. There were times when we sold the office furniture to make payroll.
I mean, all the record companies said no, you know, say 10 record companies, whatever. But one said yes, and it took only one to make The Go-Go's happened.
'Love Tattoo' I recorded without a record company. I'd gotten turned down by the record companies - they said they didn't get me, which is fine, I suppose.
Supermarket companies are big logistics companies, and one of the ways we've increased profitability in the past is by re-evaluating how they do logistics.
If you told Exxon or Lukoil that, in order to avoid wrecking the climate, they couldn't pump out their reserves, the value of their companies would plummet.
The need for mission-critical, high-performance network continues to grow as companies and public sector organizations everywhere digitize their operations.
Companies are starting to measure how effective their customer service is and trying to understand what they can do to improve the customer service process.
Facebook, Google, Apple, Yahoo - there's a common theme. None of these companies ever sold. By staying independent, they were able to build a great company.
If insurance companies paid for lifestyle-management classes, they would save huge sums of money. We need to see that alternative medicine is now mainstream.