“Inside a firm, people become obsessed with their competitors for career advancement. Then the firms themselves become obsessed with their competitors in the marketplace. Amid all the human drama, people lose sight of what matters and focus on their rivals instead.”— Peter Thiel, amazon.com
“It should not matter what hours you work or where you're [working] from. What matters is how you communicate and what you get done. It's a waste of the natural resources of time and energy to commute; when we break the shackles of what looks like work versus what actually drives value, 90% of the co…”— Matt Mullenweg, online.wsj.com
“The best approach is to think like a 100% owner of your company with long-term time horizon. Then you work backward to the present and see what makes sense and what remains. Versus, here is what we have now, how do we carry it forward?”— Marc Andreessen, a16z.com
“The world of business really separates into two groups. Entrepreneurs who are disrupting the status quo are attackers. Large organizations are defenders.”— Steve Case, nytimes.com
“What good is something that scales well if it sucks? Why is size the ultimate goal or even a goal at all? If you're the kind of person who loves Seaside or the place where you work, you don't need it to be any bigger than it is. The inability to scale is one of the stupidest arguments against a poss…”— Scott Berkun, amazon.com
“Salespeople with the highest annual revenue are those who are the most motivated to help their customers and coworkers; the engineers with the highest productivity and fewest errors are those who do more favors for colleagues than they receive. The highest achieving negotiators are those who focus n…”— Arianna Huffington, amazon.com
“If you truly believe in the potential of your company to change the world for the better, there's no excuse for settling for an acquisition. An acquisition is the end of a dream. Today's titans push the ideal of acquisition because they're afraid of future competitors. Google knows that its biggest…”— Jake Lodwick, thoughtcatalog.com
“Never fall in love with a deal. A deal is just a deal. There will always be other deals and other opportunities. No deal is a must-do deal. If it is, you are at the mercy of the party sitting across the table and—trust me—they will know this perfectly well. In that case, your goose is cooked and you…”— Felix Dennis , amazon.com
“I believe that software, and in fact entire companies, should be run in a way that assumes that the sum of the talent of people outside your walls is greater than the sum of the few you have inside. None of us are as smart as all of us.”— Matt Mullenweg