Corporate Challenges Quotes

Bell Labs was an astonishing place for many decades, though it fell on somewhat hard times during the telecom meltdown some years ago, as its corporate owner had to cope with shrinking markets.

Big companies have no future …. There are no more advantages to big business. There are only disadvantages.

Almost any mistake you can make in running a company, I've probably made

I love creating things, and as an entrepreneur, I've taken on quite a lot of major corporations and done well. Capitalism is the only system that works, but it has its flaws; for one, it brings great wealth to only a few people. That wealth obviously brings extreme responsibility.

I'm a person who likes to tackle challenges. Google was a challenge when I got there. I think AOL's a challenge. The way we run the company is a very team-focused environment.

It's a tough problem that a company faces once they branch out beyond one set of offices in California into that big bad world out there.

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

2009 was one of the busiest, most insane, stressful periods in my entire career. I was raising a bunch of money, buying a bunch of Twitter. I saw my friend fired as CEO of Twitter. Uber was growing like a weed. As these companies get bigger and bigger, there's more and more friction. Being public was the last thing I wanted to do at the time.

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

We don’t have business problems we have people problems. When we take care of our people problems, most of our business problems are automatically resolved