If insurance companies paid for lifestyle-management classes, they would save huge sums of money. We need to see that alternative medicine is now mainstream.
No other technology company other than Apple has successfully transitioned their platform. It's almost never done, and it's way harder than you realize. This transition is where tech companies go to die.
Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.
Truly great companies are built on ideals, not just deals.
All the things I used to count on to get my music out there - record companies, they're all gone. And radio stations, they're gone - they're completely controlled by the government. If they're not controlled by the government, they're controlled by a programmer who's controlled by the government. Mainstream radio is suspect. You can't trust it.
But by shining these lights in different places, they really have uncovered things that companies in their own interest are trying to clean up. We're not going to get rid of the realities of global competition. But these companies, like Nike or Gap, have global brands that they want to protect.
Too many companies are happy to have workers to dread working. They have the wrong attitude because they have the wrong leadership.
Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders.
The cost of being a publicly traded stock has gone way, way up. It doesn't make sense for a little company to be public anymore. A lot of little companies are going private to be rid of these burdensome requirements.
I have worked with several dance companies.
It's all part of the same ball of wax, right? The oil companies, Israel, Halliburton.
Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but for the most part it's the other way around: companies must make what consumers want and deliver it at the lowest possible price.
M&A negotiations feel really fun. This is one of the biggest killers of companies, is they entertain acquisition conversations.
Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made the two companies complementary. Apple would ship the phones and computers, while Google would provide Maps, Search, YouTube, and other web tools that made the devices more useful.
Drug companies are a bit like high school boyfriends-\-\they're much more concerned with getting inside you than being effective once they're in there.
I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.
Life insurance became popular only when insurance companies stopped emphasizing it as a good investment and sold it instead as a symbolic commitment by fathers to the future well-being of their families.
The idea of investing in the positivity of employees is often low down on companies' priority lists.
Bin Laden was completely protected by the oil companies in this country who told [President] Bush not to go after him because it would piss off the Saudis.
Companies often become victims of their own mythologies.