Quotes with firms

  • After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
  • There is actually quite a lot of crossover between the quacks and drug companies. They use the same tricks and tactics to bamboozle people into buying their pills, but drug firms can afford to use slightly more sophisticated versions.

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  • Barry Commoner After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Thomas J. Peters Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
    Thomas J. Peters
    American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer (1942 - )
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  • Arthur Levitt Firms need to ensure that their ability to provide effective customer service keeps pace with their growth. If you're marketing your firm to new customers, you better be able to provide them service when they do business with you.
    Arthur Levitt
    American SEC chairman (1931 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Begum Aga Khan If Western firms pay developing countries' suppliers' starvation wages in order to feed the West's ever increasing consumer demand, can we call that 'partnership'?
    International Business and Leadership Symposium address
    Begum Aga Khan
    French Egyptian artist and last wife of Sultan Aga Khan III (1906 - 2000)
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  • C. Wright Mills Kindness and friendliness become aspects of personalized service or of public relations of big firms, rationalized to further the sale of something. With anonymous insincerity, the Successful Person thus makes an instrument of his own appearance and personality.
    White Collar :The American Middle Classes (1951)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Bill Gurley Most firms are hierarchical in nature, with everyone getting different slices of the economic pie. The problem is those slices are negotiated every time a firm raises a new fund, so in between funds, which is most of the time, the partners are trying to outgun one another to make a stronger case for themselves.
    Bill Gurley
    American businessman (1966 - )
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  • Bill Maris Not many venture firms have people whose job is to read academic research - on startups, ventures, and entrepreneurs - and gather knowledge from that.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Ben Goldacre There is actually quite a lot of crossover between the quacks and drug companies. They use the same tricks and tactics to bamboozle people into buying their pills, but drug firms can afford to use slightly more sophisticated versions.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Carroll Quigley This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Carl Honore To help staff recharge and think better, companies are setting aside quiet places to relax, practise yoga or even take a nap. With hi-tech giants such as Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft underlining the pitfalls of being 'always on,' firms are imposing speed limits on the information superhighway.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Bill Maris VC firms are... responsible for the full life cycle of a company: they find it, help it grow, open up a Rolodex, and sell it.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Carl Honore You don't have to work for Google, or any of the other firms encouraging staff to pursue personal projects on company time, to use slowness to unlock your creativity. Anyone can do it. Start by clearing space in your schedule for rest, daydreaming and serendipity. Take breaks away from your desk, especially when you get stuck on a problem.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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