As I have seen with a lot of companies I have covered, acquisition interest can be a heady experience, and not always in a good way.
Learning from the American experience, governments around the world have developed national innovation policies and programs to accelerate their economic prosperity and to help their citizens and companies compete globally.
Even though I am Chairman of Dole Food Company, I do most of my own grocery shopping.
Restless, and in desperate need of adventure, I quit my job at an insurance company to travel west with a couple of guys I smoked pot with, scandalizing my family.
Big companies often use their leverage to take stakes in would-be suppliers, especially in the technology business.
Work/life benefits allow companies meaningful ways for responding to their employees' needs; they can be a powerful tool for transforming a workforce and driving a business' success.
Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
When you're building a business or joining a company, you have to be transparent; you can't have two sets of information for two sets of people.
I never took classic business classes in college, so I don't have the background that any of the people running large companies have.
The basic principle which I believe has contributed more than any other to the building of our business as it is today, is the ownership of our company by the people employed in it.
Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term...
I certainly think you could look at the business side of how WWE was run, which was as a conservative company with little debt and strong cash balance.
I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.
I have to come to terms with the paternalism of American business. Companies are expected to take on so many social responsibilities which are the province of the state in Europe.
Yes, I have a lot of business interests. But I don't work for just anyone, and I choose the companies very carefully.
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
And looking at today's music scene, I think it's cool that there are a lot of consumers and fans not limited by what radio and the record companies tell them to buy.
That's what George wrote! He wrote it. Why change it? There was this European company that I was speaking about awhile ago - course, didn't nobody know what Porgy was.
A government operates and acts differently than a company. So all we want to do is get some transparency here and then determine if the deal should go forward.
It used to be that the only ones with access to cutting-edge technology were top government labs, big companies and the ultra-rich. It was simply too expensive for the rest of us to afford.
