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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.

In the increasingly digital world, data is a valuable currency, yet as consumers, we control and own little of it. As consumers, we must ask what big companies do with our data, a question directed to both the online and...

Quotes by William Mougayar

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...

Quotes by Wilbur Ross

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...

Quotes by Vinod Khosla

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...

Quotes by Tahl Raz

Corporations Quotes

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...

Quotes by Steve Aoki

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.

Quotes by Steve Aoki

When I was in graduate school in consumer science and math, all of the big companies had labs, all doing blue sky research.

Quotes by Sandra Lerner

I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.

Quotes by Sam Wyly

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.

Quotes by Peter Diamandis

Economy Quotes

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...

Quotes by Michael Nesmith

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...

Quotes by Michael Burry

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...

Quotes by Maria Cornejo

The big companies are like, It's so good but we don't know how to market it.

Quotes by Marguerite Moreau

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.

Quotes by Lloyd Bridges

Influence Quotes

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...

Quotes by Kirsten Green

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?

Quotes by Jesse Schell

I think this notion that it's the population of the U.S. against the big companies is just wrong.

Quotes by Jeffrey R. Immelt

I feel the same way about makeup that I do about food - I don't want the big companies to give me my food. I want the niche mom and pops who care about their food making it. I don't...

Quotes by Huda Kattan

The shining star in the world is Shanghai. That's what CEOs from big companies say - 'if I want mathematical analytical work done, it's done in China.'

Quotes by Hans Rosling

Innovation Quotes

It's easy to say that entrepreneurs will create jobs and big companies will create unemployment, but this is simplistic. The real question is who will innovate.

Quotes by Guy Kawasaki

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Frequently Asked Questions

What tension do these big companies quotes explore?
The caution and scale of large firms weighed against the freedom smaller startups have to take risks.
Is there a quote crediting big companies with a real role?
Yes, one acknowledges large companies still play a key part in certain areas even as startups drive experimentation.
Does any quote raise concerns about data?
One does, questioning what large companies actually do with the data they collect from consumers.
Is global revenue discussed in this topic?
Yes, one line notes how much of a major company's revenue now comes from developing economies.
What topic pairs naturally with this one?
Our Economy quotes cover the wider forces shaping business at scale.

Others raise questions about consumer data control and how much value large firms actually extract from their resources. Read on with our Economy and Influence quotes.