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You can't do business with a man who doesn't know the meaning of a contract. You can't do business with a firm who swears they'll do one thing one day and does just the opposite the next. You can't do business with a company who takes your goods on a cash basis and then pays you off in bum harmonicas.
Stephen Vincent Benet
Day
You
Man
Business
One Day
One Thing
Cash
Firm
Takes
Goods
Know
Does
Opposite
Off
Bum
Contract
Just
Meaning
Meaning Of
Then
Next
Your
Who
Pays
Company
Thing
Basis
My first job was working at Benihana as kitchen help. In college, I was a telemarketer for a company at the same time I was a bike messenger for this greasy fast-food place.
Steve Aoki
Time
Job
College
First
Kitchen
First Job
Messenger
Same
Same Time
Place
Bike
Working
Help
Company
Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world.
Steve Ballmer
Me
Change
People
World
Every
Change The World
Our
Everything
Way
Wildly
Our People
Impact
Touch
Shareholders
Expect
Any
Succeed
Bill
Bill Gates
Company
Gates
Certainly, we continue to bring in new people. We'll hire, net new, over 4,000 people this year, and attract great people into the company. I'm very bullish about the employee base and what it can accomplish.
Steve Ballmer
Great
People
Year
About
Net
Great People
Over
New
Employee
Attract
Hire
Continue
Bullish
Accomplish
New People
Very
Certainly
Company
Base
Bring
I have lots of sources of information about what's going on at the company. I think I have a pretty good pulse on where we are and what people are thinking.
Steve Ballmer
Good
People
Think
Thinking
Pulse
Pretty
Pretty Good
About
Sources
Lots
Going
Where
Information
Company
When you're running a company, you have employees - lots of them - that can interrupt your schedule. You have customers that can interrupt your schedule. You have a certain obligation to wave the flag because people expect to get out and wave the flag. The number of ways that others can command your time is high.
Steve Ballmer
Time
You
People
Obligation
Employees
Others
Wave
Ways
Out
High
Running
Schedule
Because
Command
Lots
Expect
Get
Flag
Them
Customers
Certain
Your
Company
Interrupt
Number
As the Executive Chairman of 'Breitbart News' with a long run in business and finance, I can tell you, it's hard to run a company that is infinitesimally smaller than Fox; it takes a steady and experienced hand.
Steve Bannon
Finance
News
You
Business
Long
Tell
Run
Steady
Long Run
Smaller
Takes
Executive
Hand
Than
Experienced
Hard
Company
Chairman
Fox
Customer discovery is the process of translating a founder's vision for the company into hypotheses about each component of the business model and creating a set of experiments to test each hypothesis.
Steve Blank
Business
Vision
Component
About
Hypotheses
Hypothesis
Test
Discovery
Model
Experiments
Process
Customer
Translating
Creating
Business Model
Company
Each
Founder
Set
In corporations, the penalty for repeated failure on known tasks is being reassigned to other tasks or asked to leave the company.
Steve Blank
Failure
Other
Corporations
Penalty
Known
Leave
Repeated
Tasks
Being
Asked
Company
Market type influences everything a company does. Strategy and tactics for one market type seldom work for another.
Steve Blank
Work
Strategy
Type
Market
Everything
Tactics
Seldom
Another
Does
Influences
Company
Once you establish what activities your company needs to do, the next question is, 'How do these activities get accomplished?' i.e. what resources do I need to make the activities happen?
Steve Blank
Needs
You
Resources
Once
Make
How
Accomplished
Question
Get
Establish
Happen
Next
Your
Company
Activities
Need
For Customer Development to succeed, everyone on the team - from investor or parent company to engineers, marketers and founders - needs to understand and agree that the Customer Development process is different to its core.
Steve Blank
Needs
Everyone
Marketers
Parent
Investor
Development
Understand
Different
Process
Customer
Succeed
Engineers
Team
Agree
Company
Founders
Core
You can get a good handle on a company's culture before you even get inside the building. For example, when companies say, 'We value our employees' but have reserved parking spots, a private cafeteria, and over-the-top offices for the executives, that tells you more than any PR spin.
Steve Blank
Good
You
Culture
Value
Example
Employees
Building
Before
Our
Say
Tells
Spin
Inside
More
Parking
Over-The-Top
For Example
Executives
Spots
Private
Handle
Than
Get
Offices
Any
Companies
Company
Even
Reserved
Visionary CEOs don't need someone else to demo the company's key products for them. They deeply understand products, and they have their own coherent and consistent vision of where the industry/business models and customers are today, and where they need to take the company.
Steve Blank
Today
Key
Vision
Own
Else
Consistent
Visionary
Someone
Take
Demo
Understand
Models
Where
Them
Customers
CEOs
Products
Company
Deeply
Coherent
Need
Very often, if a founder is waiting around for someone else to tell him what to do, the company is near death.
Steve Blank
Death
Waiting
Else
Tell
Someone
Him
Around
Very
Often
Company
Near
Founder
And what we did with this new company in 1985 is we did start focusing on PCs instead of video game machines, because we learned the hard lesson about bringing a product to market in a consumer world where it's very expensive to build a brand and get distribution and so forth.
Steve Case
Game
World
Build
Lesson
Market
Machines
Focusing
Distribution
About
Consumer
Instead
New
Learned
Because
Very
Brand
Get
Did
Expensive
Where
Video
Video Game
Forth
Product
Hard
Hard Lesson
Company
Start
Bringing
The progress we have made in a short amount of time gives me confidence we're making the right moves to turn around our business and reposition McDonald's as a modern, progressive burger company.
Steve Easterbrook
Time
Me
Confidence
Business
Progress
Made
Burger
Progressive
Our
Gives
Around
Making
Modern
Short
Moves
McDonald
Turn
Company
Right
Amount
When a nanotech company matures and becomes a real business, it becomes something else. It becomes a biotech company or a cleantech company or a memory chip company. Nanotechnology has fueled the core innovations in electronics and energy.
Steve Jurvetson
Business
Memory
Energy
Else
Innovations
Something
Something Else
Nanotechnology
Becomes
Real
Chip
Fueled
Company
Electronics
Biotech
Core
The future will be less predictable, forecast rises will shrink, company lifetimes will shrink, new entrants will proliferate and it's going to just get more unpredictable.
Steve Jurvetson
Future
Will
Proliferate
Unpredictable
Rises
More
Lifetimes
New
Forecast
Get
Going
Just
Predictable
Less
Company
Shrink
One very interesting framework for a company to succeed over time - beyond just business logic and analytics - is, do they have a reason why the best graduates in engineering programs will flock to them versus competitors?
Steve Jurvetson
Time
Best
Business
Will
Engineering
Programs
Framework
Logic
Over
Beyond
Versus
Very
Graduates
Just
Interesting
Succeed
Them
Reason
Company
Flock
Why
Competitors
I would love to play Lee in 'True West' and Bobby in 'Company.'
Steve Kazee
Love
Would
True
West
Lee
Bobby
Company
Play
I wish the company and its associates all the best as Sears Holdings continues on its transformation.
Steve Mnuchin
Best
Wish
Transformation
Company
Associates
People tend to associate Qualcomm with the chip - and they should: We're an excellent chip company - but I think we have a larger role in the ecosystem of cellular that I think people are not aware of. And our relevance to more consumer electronics - and, I would say, industries - is actually just increasing.
Steve Mollenkopf
People
Think
Increasing
Our
Say
Relevance
Would
More
Tend
Excellent
Consumer
Ecosystem
Industries
Role
Cellular
Just
Chip
Should
Company
Electronics
Aware
Larger
Actually
Associate
As a company, whatever the business outlook is, you want to make sure you have new skill sets coming into the company.
Steve Mollenkopf
You
Business
Whatever
Sets
Outlook
New
Make
Sure
Coming
Want
Skill
Company
If you look at a company like Qualcomm, we're a big exporter. We essentially have tremendous revenue offshore and large employment onshore. I think it's very difficult to make big changes in that.
Steve Mollenkopf
You
Big
Difficult
Think
Changes
Tremendous
Like
Look
Employment
Make
Revenue
Very
Offshore
Essentially
Exporter
Large
Company
Every major car company is trying to figure out, 'How do I deploy the Internet into the car? How do I get cars to talk to each other? How do I get more safety? How do I get the ownership experience to change dramatically as a result?'
Steve Mollenkopf
Change
Experience
Result
Safety
Car
Internet
Ownership
Every
Other
Dramatically
Out
More
Major
Talk
How
Get
Trying
Deploy
Figure
Company
Each
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