For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon. This mission will inspire countries of the world, citizens, our youth.
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.
A title means marketing. It means that company's coming soon, and you'd better get out the Christmas lights so they don't miss your house.
My dad's in banking, my mum manages the American branch of a Swiss vitamin company; they're really busy, but they still come to all my premieres.
The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years.
If you watched companies such as Sony and Samsung grow, they focused first on features and then on industrial design, which made their products look and feel better.
More and more companies are reaching out to their suppliers and contractors to work jointly on issues of sustainability, environmental responsibility, ethics, and compliance.
I had a great shoe contract and glove contract with a company who paid me a lot of money never to be seen using their stuff.
Our goal is to make General Motors the most valuable automotive company. Clearly, that is having sustainable profitability and driving great returns for our shareholders.
If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it. The risk and the dependency are too great.
Every great dance company, even when it seems poised in perfect balance, needs constant renewal of both repertory and performers.
The Kirov is a great ballet company because it has so many terrific dancers, but it doesn't always know what to do with them.
Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.
But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.
The future will be less predictable, forecast rises will shrink, company lifetimes will shrink, new entrants will proliferate and it's going to just get more unpredictable.
But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain.
The big value of the founder running the company is really two things: the knowledge and the commitment.
Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.
If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.
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.
Larry, I spent probably most of my professional life helping to build Enron Corporation. I don't think there was anyone that was as shocked by the - by the collapse of the company as I was.
