Quotes on Company

You want to be the last company in a category. Those are the ones that are really valuable.

All happy companies are different: each one earns a monopoly by solving a unique problem. All failed companies are the same: they failed to escape competition.

Philanthropy can be integrated into business. I believe strongly that companies can be incredible agents of good in the world.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming.

The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. It's about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that it's worth getting your teeth into.

A company's culture is the foundation for future innovation. An entrepreneurs job is to build the foundation

Sales Cure All. Know how your company will make money and how you will actually make sales.

What business strategy is all about-what distinguishes it from all other kinds of business planning-is, in a word, competitive advantage. Without competitors there would be no need for strategy, for the sole purpose of strategic planning is to enable the company to gain, as efficiently as possible, a sustainable edge over its competitors.

Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war. Yet despite this capacity for internecine warfare, most companies roll along relatively peacefully, year after year, because they have routines—habits—that create truces that allow everyone to set aside their rivalries long enough to get a day’s work done.

Trust is maintained when values and beliefs are actively managed. If companies do not actively work to keep clarity, discipline and consistency in balance, then trust starts to break down.

If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises are built from the ground up.

Your personal core values define who you are, and a company's core values ultimately define the company's character and brand. For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.

Money is not a goal. The goal is to make companies grow, develop, be competitive, be in different areas, be efficient to have a great human team inside the company.

What we are trying to do at Virgin is not to have one enormous company in one sector under one banner, but to have two hundred or even three hundred separate companies. Each company can stand on its own feet and, in that way, although we've got a brand that links them, if we were to have another tragedy such as that of 11 September - which hurt the airline industry - it would not bring the whole group crashing down.

As much as you need a strong personality to build a business from scratch, you also must understand the art of delegation. I have to be good at helping people run the individual businesses, and I have to be willing to step back. The company must be set up so it can continue without me.

Great companies are built on great products.

Winning companies win because they have good leaders who nurture the development of other leaders at all levels of the organization.

No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.

Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.

Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.