In general, investors prefer companies to reward executives for producing recurring income, not one-time gains.
As they grow, companies saturate their markets, become more complex and difficult to manage, and face larger and more entrenched competitors.
For decades, Wall Street has charged companies a standard fee of 7 percent to sell their shares to the public.
Publicly traded United States companies report sales and profits to investors every quarter.
When a company is fairly certain of a profit margin that is substantial, it can assume responsibility for the clinical trials to develop a blockbuster drug.
Growth is kinda built into everyone's genes. It's built into management's genes, the salesman's genes, the investors' desires. People expect companies to grow.
It's typical of record companies. They sign you because you're unique, and then they want to put you in a mold so they can sell records.
I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost.
My friends wanted their names in the list of employees of some company, well I wanted my name in the list of the heroes of the world.
Every venture capitalist says at some point, 'I wish I could run this company myself' - to be the entrepreneur instead of the investor.
American workers won't be able to compete fairly for jobs until companies have to pay higher wages in countries like China and India.
Piracy is a huge, huge issue for all of these major content companies, and everybody has a different way of addressing it.
Rascals are always sociable, and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others company.
Yandex originated from a company called Arkadia, which created two search programs under the DOS operating system in 1990.
Most of the major consumer-goods companies roll out their marketing programs in the I-4 corridor. It reflects what America looks like.
I believe that if the Tribune company ever tries to close down Wrigley Field that you will have a protest from every corner of the globe.
If you have a company that doesn't sell its goods or services abroad and focuses only on the domestic market, it will keep paying a price.
If you're going to run a public company, be absolutely certain of what the parameters are, what the clarity is, that you can explain it to yourselves and explain it externally.
As more workers lose manufacturing jobs as companies cut back, some are being forced into lower-paying retail jobs. But they still have union cards in their wallets.
Emotional commitment means unchecked, unvarnished devotion to the company and its success; any legendary organizational performance is the result of emotionally committed managers.
There's a guy at the record company who's 30, and he says, I would not listen to these songs except in this context. Somehow the recording process, the arrangements, make it more accessible.
