Large organizations don't worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn't take a crisis to set a company on a new path.
Our primary health care should begin on the farm and in our hearts, and not in some laboratory of the biotech and pharmaceutical companies.
Before Google, and long before Facebook, Bezos had realized that the greatest value of an online company lay in the consumer data it collected.
If you look at the CEOs of some the most successful companies in the world like IKEA, they never fly first class. They always go economy.
Transnational, gigantic industrial companies no longer operate within political systems, but rather above them.
At Whole Foods, we allow our team members to vote on what benefits they most want the company to fund.
By definition, startups are not constrained by the limits of established company culture. And so they push boundaries and develop new technologies and ways of doing things.
I did parallel entrepreneurship, which was very hard to do. It was hard to keep your head straight and know which ideas were with which company.
If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be playing the theme song from 'Three's Company'.
Salesforce's Chatter is what convinced me that the company understood what is going on in the enterprise; this was the biggest attraction for me. I saw that Salesforce understands social.
The desire for reinvention seems to arise most often when companies hear the siren call of synergy and start to expand beyond their core businesses.
The stock market has an insidious effect on C.E.O.s' moods, because of its impact not just on their companies but on their own bank accounts.
The U.S. and Israel probably lead the way in terms of venture investment in technologies companies focused on the security paradigm. That is quite encouraging.
Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.
I really am happy that I met my agency and my management company, because they see me as a person and not just a Latin woman.
Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.
I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.
An entrepreneur must pitch a potential investor for what the company is worth as well as sell the dream on how much of a profit can be made.
In the web products and services world, you have a real-time interaction with your customers, and then a real-time editing of how you as a company are doing.
Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.
We've tried to build Sequoia Capital with an eye for the long term that we really look for in the companies we like to partner with.
