Investing is where you find a few great companies and then sit on your ass.
Given a choice between great food and boring company or boring food and great company, I'll take the great company any day.
It's always nice to be in great company and to be among great players.
Great companies are defined by their discipline and their understanding of who they are and who they are not.
Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change.
I have a great job at a great company.
I don't know where we should take this company, but I do know that if I start with the right people, ask them the right questions, and engage them in vigorous debate, we will find a way to make this company great.
I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.
I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.
Great companies don't just have one founding moment. They have many founding moments.
A good company delivers excellent products and services, and a great company does all that and strives to make the world a better place.
If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she's giving you great company.
A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
City Ballet remains a great company in perpetual artistic crisis.
We didn't know anything about Judy Murray until we met her, but once we got to know her, we found she was an absolute scream.
If you want to grow, find a good opportunity. Today, if you want to be a great company, think about what social problem you could solve.
One of our first customers asked me how big we want to be. I said I want to be really big. Later, it bothered me that I answered that way. Now I say I just want to be a great company.
To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader.
I respect Apple. It's a great company that changed the world, especially the mobile time.
In an ironic twist, I now see Good to Great not as a sequel to Built to Last, but more of a prequel. Good to Great is about how to turn a good organization into one that produces sustained great results. Built to Last is about how you take a company with great results and turn it into an enduring great company of iconic stature.
Focusing on the long term and building a great product that is scalable ultimately leads to a great company.
Peapod is a great company to work with.
There has been an intention since day one that it's as important to us that we build profits as much as we build a wonderful culture and a lasting legacy of a great company. We've created this inclusive environment that's very thoughtful in terms of how we can create allyship, how we create mentorship, and what kind of voices are heard.
The root of great companies is make meaning vs. make money.
