Creativity and innovation are something you can’t flowchart out. Some things you can, and we do, and we’re very disciplined in those areas. But creativity isn’t one of those. A lot of companies have innovation departments, and this is always a sign that something is wrong when you have a VP of innovation or something. You know, put a for-sale sign on the door.
Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.
We're living in what I like to call the 'Thank You Economy,' because only the companies that can figure out how to mind their manners in a very old-fashioned way - and do it authentically - are going to have a prayer of competing.
I think that most of the people running companies today are motivated and pay is a small portion of the motivation.
Scientists and companies weren't creating things like new vaccines. Now that we have this fund that's there to buy at the lowest price, but buy for those people these medicines, we see scientists everywhere coming up with those new tools.
We represent companies from around the world who say, "I want to look at Japanese companies. I want to invest in Japan. "
Piracy is a huge, huge issue for all of these major content companies, and everybody has a different way of addressing it.
I've made money over the years by buying into good companies, run by good people, at attractive prices. And I don't try and make it out of buying into the market at one point and selling at another point.
Santa blows all these shipping companies away. He delivers more than 2 billion packages in just 24 hours. He does it by sleigh. He doesn't use tracking numbers and doesn't use trucks. He just uses midgets and a giant bag.
In reality, there's a limit to putting a record out yourself. When it comes to working with major record companies in the context of them owning anything, though, that will never happen. Ever. In my life.
The intelligent investor should recognize that market panics can create great prices for good companies and good prices for great companies.
We have to do a better job of putting some rules on the insurance companies.
Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers.
Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.
All companies are service companies; some also manufacture products.
Average companies give their people something to work on. The most innovative organizations give their people something to work toward.
Companies and leaders are role models - not just with the business community - but in the broader world.
Discussions of health care in the U. S. usually focus on insurance companies, but, whatever their problems, they're not the main driver of health-care inflation: providers are.
Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.
You need people who can walk their companies into the future rather than back them into the future.