We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell.
I don't bash my company. I don't bash my opponents. I don't miss weight.
We're supposed to be an entrepreneurial company; we're meant to be expanding and looking for opportunities - but the minute you do it, you get your head bashed in.
When deciding whether to fund and build a company, we start from basic principles and because many of the businesses and products that our companies create are a complete novelty to us, them and the market, we have to do the math.
No batch of 10 people will have as much an influence on the company as those first 10 people.
You got to be careful of the company you keep.
The Cinquecento was an engine of motivation at Fiat. It refurbished the image of the entire company. It's a symbol for the company, but it's more than that. It's a global Italian symbol, as Mini is a global British symbol and the Beetle is a global German symbol.
Every case involving cybercrime that I've been involved in, I've never found a master criminal sitting somewhere in Russia or Hong Kong or Beijing. It always ends up that somebody at the company did something they weren't supposed to do. They read an email, went to a website they weren't supposed to.
The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.
PepsiCo is a $63 billion company. Half the company is snacks, and half the company is beverages. We have a glorious snacks business and a glorious beverage business. We are extremely profitable. We are growing.
Facebook is a private company and, therefore, is entitled to whatever political biases it holds.
If it's one thing we do really well as a company, it's that we take big change slowly and deliberately and bring the community along with us.
Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.
I've been preparing to run a big company all my life.
Working for a big company is, I believe, much risker than it looks.
You cannot be in charge of a family and run a big company.
Poison is one of the first, if not the first, truly independent bands to sell 3 million copies of our first record. It was before we were with a big company.
We're trying to build the largest start-up ever without becoming a big company.
I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
