There’s a smugness that goes with being a huge company. The big fish say, ‘If it’s so great, why didn’t we invent it?’ But how’d you like to be makin’ buggy whips when cars came along? – Woody Norris
Market type influences everything a company does. Strategy and tactics for one market type seldom work for another. – Steve Blank
In my first company, Seer Technologies, where I was chief technology officer, we shied away from the media. We watched every word and were guarded in front of journalists. – Vivek Wadhwa
Clearly, every company needs a leader. That’s an important part of being the CEO of the company. – Sanjay Kumar
When you are an entrepreneur, you have founded your own firm, it is so easy to find that you exist – you are the main shareholder of your company; it is very easy to look at the stock market position of your company to know how rich you are. – Thomas Piketty
My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them. – Walter Savage Landor
Entrepreneurs have the flexibility and the ability to do things that large companies simply cannot. Could a large company pull off a trick like Amyris, going from anti-malaria medicine to next-generation fuel? – Vinod Khosla
What’s happening internally is eventually what will take AOL back to being a growth company. – Tim Armstrong
When I was 24, I co-founded a company called Athenahealth which built the first Web-based software and back-office service suite for doctors’ offices. – Todd Park
I didn’t need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I’d have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do. – Solomon Burke
Subsequent to the original Quicken, the whole idea that we, as a consumer products company, could actually make business products, that was a whole revolution in our thinking. – Scott Cook
My father was an engineer working for a textile company that had several factories scattered in rural towns in the southern part of Japan. – Susumu Tonegawa
We made the commitment internally to develop our own superior vapor product. We didn’t buy a company outside, and we believe that Vuse is a superior and game-changing technology. – Susan Cameron
A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail. – Warren Farrell
We had been to a couple really awkward office Christmas parties, including one at our production company. It’s just a really interesting place, an event that hadn’t really been captured. – Will Speck
For wellbeing to take hold, it’s got to be something that individual team members are getting excited about in their own lives. It can’t be something that a company is forcing top-down through hierarchical structures. – Tom Rath
It is true that the record company are always thinking of new ways to flog New Order to people. – Stephen Morris
E.Biscom is an Internet company that is diversified, not a diversified company that is trying out the Internet. – Silvio Scaglia
Plenty of couples snipe at each other in sometimes embarrassing ways in front of company. – Tina Brown
‘The Company You Keep’ is about outgrowing not just the delusions that accompany youth but the harsh certainties driving our lives and then trapping them before the years outpace the velocity of our dreams. – Steve Erickson