Companies that cannot successfully answer what they do fail to then understand how they can continue to do it in the face of change.
Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.
In this ever-changing society, the most powerful and enduring brands are built from the heart. They are real and sustainable. Their foundations are stronger because they are built with the strength of the human spirit, not an ad campaign. The compani...
How many companies can say that the amount of customers who use their services second most often, and spend the second most amount of money with them, are “very negative”?
The small stuff matters. The company that became the largest and most powerful in history isn't a military contractor or a car company. It isn't the result of savvy lobbyists in Washington, or the happenstance of controlling the supply of petroleum, ...
Tell me the company you keep, and I'll tell you what you are.
...I would not engage the wombat In any form of mortal combat.
They should be going to sleep, but good company is the enemy of sleep.
Humans are all too happy to keep company until the company turns out to be less appealing than solitude.
People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
Companies will need to pursue a more diversified business model, but I think those companies that have what I call a focused diversified business model will be more successful.
It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to the public. Secrecy is an important factor of success in the commodity business.
If the head man in a company is not working 12 hours a day, doing things, taking risks, but also standing with his people in the trenches at the most difficult of times, then the company loses something.
It was a chance encounter with a biotech entrepreneur from Ireland that got me started as an entrepreneur in India, because I partnered this Irish company in setting up India's first biotech company.
People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.
My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that.
The good parts about being a public company are increased discipline, increased execution and increased transparency to make sure that you are really building a company for a hundred years.
There are a lot of good ideas that could benefit from big media. You have a lot of companies that hit a wall and can't get beyond a certain level. They need the infrastructure and distribution of a large company.
The plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company.
I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.
The good company counts in your life, make a right choice because bad company will eat you alive.
