1,712 Quotes About Companies

One of the things we urge Y-Combinator companies to do is to have profitability in grasp. If you need to get profitable before your A round of money, you ought to be able to do that.

All companies that grow really big do so in only one way: people recommend the product or service to other people.

Many of the companies in the mobile location space are trying to figure out different ways to tie what they're doing to commerce.

Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have done a pretty good job of standing up to the incredible quarterly pressure to hit numbers, but most companies - and I've observed a lot now - don't do a very good job of that.

Those companies are craftier than you. They're better at getting information.

As long as people are raising private money in big numbers to finance expensive campaigns, you're going to have big contributors who have special interests controlling the outcome, whether it's video poker or the hog farmers or tobacco companies or the trial lawyers.

German companies have stepped on the gas in the past 12 months. They're in conquering mode, and we've not hit the peak yet. There's a real M&A mania out there, and it's increasingly driven by globalization.

There is a 'sweet spot' that Pfizer is hopefully exploring, consisting of companies that are big enough to be profitable and accretive and fill some voids, yet small enough to be viewed as targeted and manageable,

The key for traditional media companies is to get their content out to as many people as possible, in many different ways.