Jack Dangermond Quotes

My father told me, never have partners.

I love finding new creative partnerships but then continuing the partnerships I'm already in.

Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.

In this industry, there's a lot of cases of being a competitor in one way, but you're often a customer and a vendor in another way. It's not atypical in aerospace. Actually, it's not that atypical in a lot of industries.

There are some very real areas where working together is critical, whether it's talking about public policy issues, enforcement, or how to work together to facilitate new business opportunities. The RIAA has gotten much more involved in that.

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.

When you build relationships with entrepreneurs, they're not trying to optimize on price.

During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.

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

We are looking for development partners, people to work alongside us, which will accelerate our actually getting licences, the technology into product, into the markets.

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

I am very lucky to consider many of my business associates friends. Some are closer than others, but I respect and value all of them.

Yes, I have a lot of business interests. But I don't work for just anyone, and I choose the companies very carefully.

Luckily, my husband is my business partner as well as my life partner, so I never had to do the heavy lifting alone, literally or figuratively.

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

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.

Many American industries may be expected to acquire foreign properties to supplement their raw material supplies.

There are bridges that we have built not only between individual companies but also between associations. This will keep business and investments flowing.

Epic Games and Microsoft have been close partners for more than 25 years.

When we're looking at strategic partners, it may be that they're larger partners or big corporations or start-ups. But, when you look at Gilt and places like Amazon and Starbucks, they're all places where it's a lot of foot traffic or digital traffic.

I've never been in the enterprise where your customers are your partners. It was always, you had customers, and you had partners.

The biggest sources of opportunity are collaboration and partnership. And today, with digital communication, there is more of that everywhere. We need to expose ourselves to that as a matter of doing business.

Align yourself with outstanding strategic partners.

Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.

We can be a very natural partner as a support base for Ireland to use Mexico to enter into the North American and South American markets and for Mexico, in turn, to really take advantage of Ireland as a gateway to the European markets.