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- Nov 07, 2020
Big Companies Quotes
On scale, caution, and corporate power.
These big companies quotes contrast the caution of large firms with the risk-taking freedom smaller startups enjoy, while still crediting big players with a real role. See our Corporations quotes for related themes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The typical big Japanese company has somewhere between a third and 40 percent of its revenues coming from developing countries, and about a third of Japan's exports are also to the emerging countries, so in a strange way, Japan, which has very little internal growth, its big companies are a good way to play the emerging markets.
- Drain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oil wells never really run dry. A big company will drain maybe 40% of a field. Pulling out the rest of the oil, which requires an outlay of incrementally more cash per barrel, often proves uneconomical for big companies with big overheads.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Artists have so much more control of their futures - they don't need to rely so much on major labels or big companies to help them. You have artists like Skrillex that can dominate so much that he gets 5 Grammy nominees, and he's clearly an underground artist.
- Media
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- Nov 07, 2020
The record labels used to spend money on advertising, and social media has replaced that entirely - it's putting magazines out of business. It's put big companies into completely reinventing their strategies.
- Graduate School
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once the smoke of the market crash clears off, you know, the Internet will pick back up and go. Take a look at what's happening to some of the big companies like eBay and Yahoo, the publicly traded stocks. You know, they're all coming back up off the mat now.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The post-crisis perception, at least in the media, appears to be one of Americans being held down by Wall Street, by big companies in the private sector, and by the wealthy. Capitalism is on trial. I see it a little differently. If a lender offers me free money, I do not have to take it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I started my company in 1998, I worked for big companies traveling a lot and saw firsthand how much waste there was. I was flying across the world in first class to places like Italy or Hong Kong, where I was staying in 5-star hotels, only to nickel and dime someone over a sweater price.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a lot to be said about what's happening to our ocean, big companies polluting it with their oil and all the raw garbage that's being spilled in there.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the way Amazon and eBay had become big companies and with the way people were embracing technology, I was like, it is so obvious that this is going to be a huge game changer in this space. The combination of these things is going to change what it means to retail, what it means to launch brands, what it means to connect with your consumer.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why is it that big companies fail when the technology changes? It happens in every industry, so what's the pattern? What are they all doing wrong?
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think this notion that it's the population of the U.S. against the big companies is just wrong.
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- Nov 07, 2020