Company Struggles Quotes

Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.

Starting out, iRobot was not an economic rocket ship. It took six and a half years before we had enough money in the bank at the beginning of each month to make payroll. We always made it - we paid salaries at the end of the month, and I always had four weeks to figure things out.

When I came to DreamWorks, I was in bad trouble. They were in bad trouble. They were millions of dollars in the hole and a few days from closing their doors. I was on my last leg.

There are so many easier ways to live your life than to start a company.

We wanted to enjoy what we were doing and we had business things we had to straighten out and personnel problems and it sort of took a little time to do it.

City Ballet remains a great company in perpetual artistic crisis.

Businesses want to offer solid, affordable health insurance to their employees, but it is getting harder to find every year.

When you consider how many people are really not good at communication in general and interviewing in specific, it's no wonder that many companies struggle to build high-quality partnerships - or even staffs.

We made some mistakes. We had some managers we didn't like and had to get rid of, and that cost some money. Stuff like that. But overall, we did really well.

It's, like, even in journeys like Facebook, we've had some very serious ups and downs.