John McKinley Quotes

Corporate houses and big companies can be meaningful distribution channels for start-ups.

Seek out strategic alliances; they are essential to growth and provide resistance to bigger competition.

Shutterstock has the tech ethos. Rex has the relationships, packaging, and merchandising know-how.

I think that the most important thing we look for in partners is that they can help build companies and, you know, we have the - we have the opportunity to do that at different stages.

To create a big company, you need more partners, as it is hard to handle such a project alone. Such projects bring access to the expertise and management resources of the partners, and their connections above all.

From our group, we've had joint ventures with a lot of international companies: Procter & Gamble, General Electric, Sara Lee, currently with Hershey's and Tyson. We've learned a lot of the best practices.

If they had listened to me and had equal partnerships in China, the U.K., Germany and Brazil, maybe Yahoo in those countries could have become positioned like Yahoo Japan.

We love wine, and as with both Birdiebee and the beauty line, we consider these passion projects. When the right partners came to us for each of them, we knew the time was right.

To truly launch a great product, you need partners. Channel and marketing partners share in your success and share in the costs of reaching your target audience.

Partnerships remain critical to nuTonomy's success, and our aim is to work with groups with whom we share strategic aims and core values. These are partners that are transparent, innovative, and are focused on putting autonomous fleets on the road.

We have a very close relationship with Google. We extend our offerings to all the markets that we expand into.

System-wide changes rely on a critical mass of interested parties, all willing to enter into deep partnerships and collaborations, founded on new levels of trust and a commitment to action, not debate.

Create strategic alliances and partnerships: Now and in years to come, shrewd leaders will create allegiances with other organizations whose fates are correlated with their own.

The biggest mistake entrepreneurs can make is trying to do everything themselves. They usually blow up when they try. I did an inventory of every deal I've ever done and it turned out that every single deal I made money on was a partnership, and every colossal failure, where I lost millions, was something I tried to do by myself.

Align yourself with outstanding strategic partners.

A lot of my work is about developing relationships with corporate partners such as Jaguar and Diageo.

Industry and institutes need to build smarter linkages.

We talk to our partners in Silicon Valley every week, so we have a real sense of what goes on.

Among the world's 500 largest companies, not one has completely relied on its own growth to develop.

The growing economic potential of India and Russia is mutually complementary in many respects.

So we believed that strategic alliances and partnerships were critical, and we did that for five years.

Offset is helping to expand our relationship with large enterprises and serve a broader set of imaging.

We've been able to access deals that under our former relationship with Disney - with tax advantages and strategic partners - that we just weren't able to do.

Making new products is an easy tap for a company in a recession.

Traditional companies have to start looking into themselves to offer more opportunities in their companies by starting new subsidiaries and joint ventures.