Corporate Goals Quotes

If you're long-term oriented, customer interests and shareholder interests are aligned.

It's my job for Oracle, the number two software company in the world; to become the number one software company in the world. My job is to build better than the competition, sell those products in the marketplace and eventually supplant Microsoft and move from being number two to number one.

HCL is a corporation. It is for profits. A corporation stands for its shareholders, its profits, its employees, its discoveries, and its customers.

My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.

In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook.

I don't think Yahoo can be Facebook tomorrow, and don't think Yahoo wants to be Facebook.

The goal of Apple is not to make money but to make really nice products, really great products.

As the nation's elderly population grows, dozens of industries have tried to harness the political might of older Americans for corporate goals.

Understanding how your business affects human rights and using that knowledge to shape appropriate policies and practices is crucial to achieving what should be the goal of all corporations - sustainable growth.

Our mission has always been to be leaders in each of our businesses, which is one, two, or three.

When you're running a company, creating jobs is the last thing you want to. When you're running a company you want to employ as few people as possible, and yet you inadvertently create jobs.

I think every company has its own unique approach to creating shareholder value.

My investors expect me to maximize profits.

I am very confident that we will be able to convince all the stakeholders - the shareholders, the governments and the employees, that this is in their best interests.

I'm just interested in building a company that doesn't necessarily change lives but adapts people's behaviour.

I never aspired to be a public figure. I have always been interested primarily in real business and the development of business strategies.

Facebook has never been shy about its ambitions.

Blackstone is not really a business per se. It's a mission to be the best.

Going public for the sake of going public is not really an optimal thing. You're going public because as a company you believe it is the right thing to do and it will benefit the ability of the company to achieve its long-term objectives.

You go to any MBA program, and you will be taught the theory of the firm, that the purpose of the firm is the maximization of return on invested capital. I always thought this was a kind of lunacy.

Business’s objective is to maximize profits—not maximize benefits to the American worker.

Millennials are more aware of society's many challenges than previous generations and less willing to accept maximizing shareholder value as a sufficient goal for their work. They are looking for a broader social purpose and want to work somewhere that has such a purpose.

General Motors is not in the business of making cars. It is in the business of making money.

Many companies aspire to change the world. But very few have all the elements required: talent, resources and perseverance. Microsoft has proven that it has all three in abundance.