Successful Company Quotes:

If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

- Larry Page

topic: Inspiring, Beach, Long, Successful Company, Larry

Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success.

- Herman Cain

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Keys, Future Success, Just Being You

Quality is the one absolutely necessary ingredient of all the most successful companies in the world.

- Frank Perdue

topic: Successful, Quality, World, Successful Company

We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.

- James E. Burke

topic: Business, Successful, Risk, Successful Company

Everybody likes to win. I don't care if you work for a small plumbing company or the most successful company in the world. There's a special flavor to winning.

- Marcelo Claure

topic: Successful, Winning, Special, Successful Company

I think a successful company is one where everybody owns the same mission. Out of necessity, we divide ourselves up into discipline groups. But the goal when you are actually doing the work is to somehow forget what discipline group you are in and come together. So in that sense, nobody should own user experience; everybody should own it.

- Donald A. Norman

topic: Successful, Thinking, Discipline, Successful Company, User Experience

No successful company has had ever been the product of just one person.

- Caterina Fake

topic: Successful, Company, Persons, Successful Company

The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld.

- Bill Gates

topic: Successful Company, Functionality

The capacity to creatively improvise is an important factor that differentiates successful companies - or teams - from those that are not successful.

- John Kao

source: Source: www.strategy-business.com

topic: Team, Successful, Important, Successful Company, Differentiate

Building a successful company (or living a happy life, for that matter) is not about embracing someone else's philosophy, but staying true to your own beliefs about the world and learning from the mistakes you make along the way.

- Ben Parr

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Mistake, Philosophy, Successful, Successful Company

To survive in modern times, a company must have an organizational structure that accepts change as its basic premise, lets tribal customs thrive, and fosters a power that is derived from respect, not rules. In other words, the successful companies will be the ones that put quality of life first. Do this and the rest - quality of product, productivity of workers, profits for all - will follow.

- Ricardo Semler

topic: Successful, Quality, Firsts, Modern Times, Successful Company

There's only one thing that all the successful companies in the world have in common: None was started by one person.

- Ernesto Sirolli

topic: Successful, Collaboration, World, Successful Company

My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.

- Rachel Zoe

topic: Dad, Father, Successful, Successful Company

The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition.

- Ralph Abernathy

topic: Change, Successful, Competition, Strategic, Strategic Vision

We've seen a lot of data at YC now, and the most successful companies and the ones where the investors do the best... end up giving a lot of stock out to employees- year after year after year.

- Sam Altman

topic: Successful, Data, Years, Successful Company

Being an entrepreneur does require a lot of sacrifice of your personal time and personal hobbies and things that you enjoy. At least for the period of high growth that you experience at the beginning of a company's life cycle, you have to be ready to make a lot of time sacrifices and personal sacrifice.

- Anousheh Ansari

source: Source: www.ncwit.org

topic: Sacrifice, Entrepreneur, Growth, Successful Company, Personal Time

I started off with a company, InfoSpace, with my own funding. The company was listed among the most successful companies and I went on to start Intelius and Moon Express. Now, I focus my time on using the skills of an entrepreneur to solve many of the grand challenges facing us in the areas of education, healthcare, clean water and energy.

- Naveen Jain

topic: Successful, Moon, Skills, Successful Company, Clean Water

I'm speaking to you from Silicon Valley, where some of the most prominent and successful companies have built their businesses by lulling their customers into complacency about their personal information. They're gobbling up everything they can learn about you and trying to monetize it. We think that's wrong. And it's not the kind of company that Apple wants to be.

- Tim Cook

source: "Apple boss delivers strongest attack yet on Facebook and Google over privacy" by Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2015.

topic: Successful, Thinking, Apples, Successful Company, Personal Information

In a large successful company where your power base as CEO isn't all that secure, it's hard for a CEO to pursue a truly disruptive strategy.

- Clayton Christensen

source: Source: www.strategy-business.com

topic: Successful, Strategy, Ceo, Successful Company, Disruptive

They have a policy in China for their big companies called "Go abroad." It's a rational thing for both the company and the country to say, "We want big, successful companies." Particularly in areas where they need it: agriculture, energy, technology. I think banking, too. One or two have bought a trading house. Some have already begun expanding around the world. Of course they're going to have those ambitions. Why wouldn't they? They're just doing it methodically. It's a logical strategy and, well-executed, they will succeed.

- Jamie Dimon

source: "Jamie Dimon on Finance: 'Who Owns the Future?'". Interview with John Micklethwait, www.bloomberg.com. March 1, 2016.

topic: Country, Ambition, Successful, Successful Company, Big Companies

If you look at the CEOs of some the most successful companies in the world like IKEA, they never fly first class. They always go economy.

- Gene Simmons

topic: Successful, Class, Ikea, Successful Company

He's a family man and a businessman. He spent his career building successful companies. Then, he saved the 2002 Olympics and brought pride to our nation. As governor, he balanced the budget, cut taxes, and created jobs. The president America needs is Mitt Romney!

- Reince Priebus

topic: Jobs, Pride, Cutting, Successful Company, Family Man

I’ve seen how important this concept is in business. To be truly successful, companies need to have a corporate mission that is bigger than making a profit. We try to follow that at salesforce.com, where we give 1% of our equity, 1% of our profits, and 1% of our employees’ time to the community. By integrating philanthropy into our business model our employees feel that they do much more than just work at our company. By sharing a common and important mission, we are united and focused, and have found a secret weapon that ensures we always win.

- Marc Benioff

source: Sonshi.com Interview, www.sonshi.com.

topic: Philosophy, Successful, Winning, Successful Company, Business Models

You get the idea. Every business, like a painting, operates according to its own rules. There are many ways to run a successful company. What works once may never work again. What everyone tells you never to do may just work, once. There are no rules. You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over, and it's because you fall over that you learn to save yourself from falling over. It's the greatest thrill in the world and it runs away screaming at the first sight of bullet points.

- Richard Branson

topic: Running, Fall, Successful, Successful Company, Following Rules

You can divide our industry into two kinds of people: those who want to go work for a company to make it successful, and those who want to go work for a successful company.

- Jamie Zawinski

source: "Opinion: Who invited the pirates to the Linux party?" by J.S. Kelly, www.cnn.com. February 03, 2000.

topic: Inspirational, Successful, Two, Successful Company

It's not about market share. If you have a successful company, you will get your market share. But to get a successful company, what do you have to have? The same metrics of success that your customer does.

- Gordon Bethune

topic: Educational, Successful, Doe, Successful Company

Successful companies create value by providing products or services their customers value more highly than available alternatives. They do this while consuming fewer resources, leaving more resources available to satisfy other needs in society. Value creation involves making people's lives better. It is contributing to prosperity in society.

- Charles Koch

source: Charles G. Koch (2007). “The Science of Success: How Market-Based Management Built the World's Largest Private Company”, p.55, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Business, Successful, People, Successful Company

Successful companies in social media function more like entertainment companies, publishers, or party planners than as traditional advertisers.

- Erik Qualman

topic: Powerful, Party, Successful, Social Media Marketing, Successful Company

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.

- Lou Gerstner

topic: Successful, Would Be, World, Successful Company, Motivational Success

Often, there is no correlation between the success of a company's operations and the success of its stock over a few months or even a few years. In the long term, there is a 100 percent correlation between the success of the company and the success of its stock. This disparity is the key to making money; it pays to be patient, and to own successful companies.

- Peter Lynch

source: Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.305, Simon and Schuster

topic: Successful, Keys, Years, Successful Company

Every tech story is different. Every moment in history happens only once. All successful companies are successful in their own unique way. It's your task to figure out what that future history will be.

- Peter Thiel

topic: Successful, Unique, Stories, Successful Company

In my view the successful companies of the future will be those that integrate business and employees' personal values. The best people want to do work that contributes to society with a company whose values they share, where their actions count and their views matter.

- Jeroen van der Veer

topic: Successful, Views, People, Successful Company, Personal Values

Learning from mistakes and constantly improving products is a key in all successful companies.

- Bill Gates

topic: Successful Company, Learning From Mistakes, Constantly Improving

Truly visionary and successful companies have discovered that there is no conflict between the pursuit of profit and having a pursuit beyond profit.

- David Maister

topic: Inspiring, Successful, Visionaries, Successful Company

I've become absolutely convinced that the seminal difference between successful companies and mediocre or unsuccessful ones has little, if anything, to do with what they know or how smart they are; it has everything to do with how healthy they are.

- Patrick Lencioni

topic: Smart, Successful, Differences, Successful Company

We have an obligation to each other to not only push our politicians, but to push companies to do right by their workers. They wouldn't even have successful companies without their workers. They are the glue that keeps things together. How, in the 21st century, we have mega-corporations that have lost sight of that boggles my mind.

- Nina Turner

topic: Successful, Sight, Mind, Successful Company, Mega