Words matter. These are the best Big Company Quotes from famous people such as Bruce Schneier, Mark Parker, Bernard L. Schwartz, Bret Michaels, Robin Li, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year’s salary to ‘go pursue a dream.’ If you’re stupid, you panic and get another job. If you’re smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next.
At a big company, often size turns into constipation; it fogs the lens about what’s really happening. Sometimes with size and success comes the notion that since we’ve done things to be successful, we have the formula and can institutionalize it. That can be death.
There’s something about me that wants to grow a big company. I don’t deny that. I enjoy the game, and the only way to really enjoy it is to win. I like to win. It’s more fun.
Poison is one of the first, if not the first, truly independent bands to sell 3 million copies of our first record. It was before we were with a big company.
If you are a big company, a big website, and lots of users come to your website, you will have attacks, and you have to deal with that. It just cannot be a reason to take actions to exit certain markets.
I did grow up in France, and even though I didn’t go to the school or dance with the Paris Opera Ballet, I absorbed similar ideas in my training. I understand the scale of a big company. I danced for one for almost 20 years.
I want to control the company, but I don’t know how life goes. We are already a big company, and the larger our capitalization is, the lower goes the threshold for control.
I’ve been preparing to run a big company all my life.
The United States is like a big company, and we need a CEO to run it.
If I had gone to a big company, it would have been very difficult for me to do research freely. At a big company, say Sony, there are very, very good researchers. So I would have to ask them what I could do.
Every weekend, I’m on the highway to Antwerp. I need to be there, to have the calm. It’s a whole different life: I jump on my bike, and it’s so small, I can be anywhere in a minute. I like to be at home when there’s free time because when you’re at a big company, you’re constantly surrounded by 30 people.
Start step by step. I didn’t start being a big company in the beginning. You go to the bank for loans when nobody knows about you.
Don’t let a lack of big company names on your resume get you down, but also, don’t let it feed a Silicon Valley ego. Oftentimes, the best candidates come from startups or smaller companies. It shows they are open to risk and can keep up with the long hours and occasional harsh demands.
With Twitter and other social networking tools, you can get a lot of advice from great people. I learn more from Twitter than any survey or discussion with a big company.
Working for a big company is, I believe, much risker than it looks.
Once you learn how to work inside the ring – once you learn how to tell a story – then you can come to a big company like the WWE and learn the extra stuff, like the video, the pyro, the music, and that adds to everything you can do.
LG is a very big company and I’m very honoured and proud to be their brand ambassador to represent them on and off the pitch.
In the community, in the African-American community, one person ought to say something, and that is the minister. The minister is paid by the people. He doesn’t work for a big company. He doesn’t represent a particular special interest.
A big company is like trying to steer a luxury liner.
Let’s be honest – you work at a big company because it’s comfortable. You don’t have to work 80 hours per week, and you get paid, have nice benefits, and the family is all happy.
John W. Snow was paid more than $50 million in salary, bonus and stock in his nearly 12 years as chairman of the CSX Corporation, the railroad company. During that period, the company’s profits fell, and its stock rose a bit more than half as much as that of the average big company.
If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.
Startups allow technologists and scientists to take risks and change plans in a way that would be frowned upon in a big company. Having said that, big companies will play a key role in certain areas and in partnerships with little companies. Each has its strengths.
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.
I think I’ve always been able to see what’s coming, and when I was joining Google, people always said, ‘Why are you joining this company?’ It was so small at the time. I could see the importance of Google. I could see the way it was going to grow; it was going to become a big company.
