Quotes about Firms

Firms that fully embrace the needs and interests of the whole person will win today's competition for the best talent. Votes: 3

Firms that draw commitment from customers and staff give them a way to sign up for something that can allow them to be their best self. Votes: 3

Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance. These entitlements would be transferable and a market in them would be developed. Votes: 3

Businesses that fail to develop their staff are twice as likely to collapse. Firms seeking to reposition themselves for the economic upturn need to invest in their staff's flexibility, responsiveness and skills. Votes: 3

Firms are a bit concerned about things like oil prices and US growth but actually the change (in firms expectations) is quite small so I think broadly theyre looking for more of the same, Votes: 3

Firms produce goods for households - that's us - and provide us with incomes, and that's even better, because we can spend those incomes on more goods and services. That's called the circular flow of the economy. Votes: 3

Firms need to ensure that their ability to provide effective customer service keeps pace with their growth. If you're marketing your firm to new customers, you better be able to provide them service when they do business with you. Votes: 3

Firms need to ensure that their ability to provide effective customer service keeps pace with their growth. If you're marketing your firm to new customers, you better be able to provide them service when they do business with you. Votes: 3

Making labor less expensive helps firms hire people. Votes: 0

There are a lot of ethical firms on Wall Street. Votes: 0

Anticompetitive practices hurt Chinese private firms nearly as much as foreign ones. Votes: 0

Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector. Votes: 0

To be successful in a knowledge economy firms need to create learning organizations. Votes: 0

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change. Votes: 0

Brokerage firms don't sell customers stock so much as they sell those horrible mutual funds Votes: 0

Poor firms ignore their competitors; average firms copy their competitors; winning firms lead their competitors. Votes: 0

History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies. Votes: 0

If you think Wall Street firms have it good, you haven't looked closely at Big Oil. Votes: 0

Insurance firms have always carefully studied real-world data to figure out what, precisely, constitutes a risky activity. Votes: 0

Power stems from 'rainmaking,' as law firms put it: the ability to bring resources into the company. Votes: 0

The San Francisco Bay Area has more VC firms and dollars invested than all East Coast cities combined. Votes: 0

In the 1970s we saw a massive shift of household savings from the banks to the brokerage firms. Votes: 0

It is very likely that many firms spend more on advertising than, for their own best interests, they should. Votes: 0

I've been a customer of the top venture capital firms, so I know exactly what they do and don't do. Votes: 0

If private-equity firms are as good at remaking companies as they claim, they don't need tax loopholes to make money. Votes: 0

Singapore is a natural gateway for international firms looking to access Asia and for Asian businesses to access the world. Votes: 0

US academic institutions are being bought via funding by biotechnology firms which exert a vice-like grip on the US government. Votes: 0

In government procurement, for example, the opportunity German firms have in the United States is 10 times larger than in Canada. Votes: 0

Once firms had to pay to pollute, they became incredibly inventive at figuring out cheaper ways to eliminate their SO2 emissions. Votes: 0

You get more irrationality within the family and in consumer behavior than you get, say, in the behavior of firms in their purchases. Votes: 0

Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard. Votes: 0

In the future, financial firms of any type whose failure would pose a systemic risk must accept especially close regulatory scrutiny of their risk-taking. Votes: 0

I think it's sort of an outrage that companies should have to hire firms to teach the college graduates they employ how to write. Votes: 0

Lawsuits against reverse mortgage companies, including the nation's largest, Financial Freedom Senior Funding, contend that those firms helped pressure older Americans into bad investments. Votes: 0

But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs. Votes: 0

I am pleased to be part of Promontory's steady efforts to assist banks and other financial firms in meeting legal and regulatory obligations and challenges. Votes: 0

The Court is perhaps one of the last citadels of jealously preserved individualism. For the most part, we function as nine, small independent law firms. Votes: 0

Remember, aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development base on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets can do that. Votes: 0

Not many venture firms have people whose job is to read academic research - on startups, ventures, and entrepreneurs - and gather knowledge from that. Votes: 0

The key to branding, especially for smaller firms, is to focus on a limited number of issue areas and develop superb expertise in those areas. Votes: 0

VC firms are... responsible for the full life cycle of a company: they find it, help it grow, open up a Rolodex, and sell it. Votes: 0

In 1969, when I graduated from Harvard Law School, women and minorities made up a tiny fraction of the first year associates accepted by top law firms. Votes: 0

I love hiking in the mountains in Aspen. Breathing the clean, fresh air is great. Plus, it gives me a cardiovascular workout and firms my legs. Votes: 0

When German companies take over firms in India, it is seen as normal. When an Indian buys one or two firms in Germany, that is something special. Votes: 0

When I was a young man in the 1970s, tech firms were scattered across the developed world. Since then, America has come to dominate tech almost totally. Votes: 0

Our economy is a plantation run for the aristocrats - the CEOs, hedge funds, private equity firms - while the field hands are left with the scraps. Votes: 0

We don't have sales trading, brokerage, capital lending - any of those kinds of things that got some of the Wall Street firms a little bit in trouble. Votes: 0

German and English firms operate internationally, while French firms do not. The only place where they all have work is in China. Anybody can sell himself in China! Votes: 0

Wall Street is at best ambivalent. The size of the accounts is nothing big. How many Wall Street firms do you know that are running after people with $5,000 accounts? Votes: 0

Well-functioning financial systems are important in achieving sustained economic growth. They play a crucial role in channeling household savings into the corporate sector and allocating investment funds among firms. Votes: 0

Derivative trading with mark-to-market accounting degenerates into mark-to-model. Two firms make a big derivative trade and the accountants on both sides show a large profit from the same trade. Votes: 0

Let the tech firms and consulting firms build your skills, but be sure to ask yourself, 'Am I maximizing my impact?' 'Am I living up to my values?' Votes: 0

Union busting has become a major industry with more than a thousand consulting firms teaching companies how to prevent workers from organizing and how to get rid of existing unions. Votes: 0

In the periods of crisis, the bigger firms absorb the smaller ones,and when the industrial monsters eventually go down, the wreckage is far greater than when the little enterprises buckle. Votes: 0

The Federal Reserve has always recognized the importance of allowing markets to work, and government oversight of financial firms will never be fully effective without the aid of strong market discipline. Votes: 0

In response to the drop in wealth suffered as a consequence of the 2008 financial crisis, homeowners and firms did attempt to increase savings in financial assets by reducing expenditure on durables. Votes: 0

Clearly, we were hoping to get some competitive proposals, but the reality is there are only a small number of firms that would be interested and have the wherewithal to bid. Votes: 0

I'm sorry to say, but 85% of so-called 'green' firms make some of the ugliest buildings that were ever made. So for God's sake, I don't want to be categorized with them. Votes: 0

I heavily overinvest in recruiting. I have an understanding with certain search firms that if you find someone great, don't wait until there's a job opening - send him to me. Votes: 0

In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks. Votes: 0

Several other aerospace and defense firms have announced plans to build facilities in north Mississippi in recent weeks. They join an impressive group of high-tech companies already doing business in our region. Votes: 0

After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms. Votes: 0

Most American fascists are enthusiastically supporting the war effort. They are doing this even in those cases where they hope to have profitable connections with German chemical firms after the war ends. Votes: 0

While Wall Street firms typically underwrite offerings in teams, the lead underwriter, or manager, of the offering has primary responsibility for selling the offering and reaps much of the fees and profit. Votes: 0

High-frequency traders are firms all around the world. They're massive investments. And there is an incredible race for speed now. People are paying hundreds of millions of dollars to shave milliseconds off. Votes: 0

Private-sector firms are increasingly active in the prison industry and they and the militantly unionized correctional officers, almost all unskilled labor, constantly lead public demands for more criminal statutes and more draconian penalties. Votes: 0

The global financial system consists of firms in the financial services sector - banks, hedge funds, insurance companies and the like - and various governmental agencies who are charged with regulating these firms. Votes: 0

I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms, Votes: 0

If there's no deals being made rappers, what happens to the lawyers. They've got to close their firms, they can't make no money. How can they make money from the client now? Litigation! Votes: 0

Situations emerge in the process of creative destruction in which many firms may have to perish that nevertheless would be able to live on vigorously and usefully if they could weather a particular storm. Votes: 0

The big Wall Street firms, seemingly so shrewd and self-interested, had somehow become the dumb money. The people who ran them did not understand their own businesses, and their regulators obviously knew even less. Votes: 0

Private equity firms aren't necessarily evil by definition. There are many stories of successful turnarounds fueled by private equity, often involving multiple floundering businesses that are rolled into a single entity, eliminating duplicative overhead. Votes: 0

Open innovation is a paradigm that assumes that firms can and should use external ideas as well as internal ideas, and internal and external paths to market, as the firms look to advance their technology Votes: 0

The 10 largest antitrust law firms in the United States have gone into the federal courts charging Monsanto with creating a global conspiracy in violation of the antitrust laws, to control the global market in seeds. Votes: 0

In talking to founder after founder; I've heard almost visceral reactions to working for companies, even very cool ones with great things to work on and lots of opportunity, like Facebook, Google, or consulting firms. Votes: 0

Producing fuel cells and solar panels requires high tech facilities and produces high paying jobs. The industry is booming in Arizona. The state already has about 100 firms in the solar industry and has grown 20% since 2003. Votes: 0

Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create valuable things for others, like imaginative technologies and good food, cars and drugs. Votes: 0

Knowing the importance of luck, you should be particularly suspicious when highly consistent patterns emerge from the comparison of successful and less successful firms. In the presence of randomness, regular patterns can only be mirages. Votes: 0

It is clear as you look at the team why Data Point Capital has so quickly become one of the premier venture capital firms. I look forward to adding to the firm's very bright future. Votes: 0