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We started not with the actual corporation but with a model of a corporation, for which we said we would state policy standards. Our aim we said was to chart the true best course for the future operations of this model corporation, recognizing that present actual conditions necessitated sailing off the recommended course temporarily until it became
... See moreAlfred P Sloan Jr. • My Years With General Motors
Families who understand that the growth of their human capital is the first priority of their long-term wealth business have their priorities right.
James E. Hughes • Family Wealth: Keeping It in the Family--How Family Members and Their Advisers Preserve Human, Intellectual, and Financial Assets for Generations (Bloomberg Book 34)
“Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.”6
William Thorndike • The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
Traditional corporations are used to optimizing
David Spinks • The Business of Belonging: How to Make Community your Competitive Advantage
Angels therefore try to invest in at least 20 to 80 companies, thereby limiting the amount that will be lost on any one.
David S. Rose • Angel Investing: The Gust Guide to Making Money and Having Fun Investing in Startups
The bigger the company, the more likely it is that the chief executive has lost touch with the front lines. This might be the single most important factor limiting the growth of a corporation.
Al Ries, Jack Trout • The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Exposed and Explained by the World's Two
A company’s health—not its shareholders’ wealth—should be the primary concern of those who manage corporations.
Michael E. Porter • HBR's 10 Must Reads 2019: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review (with bonus article "Now What?" by Joan C. Williams and Suzanne Lebsock) (HBR's 10 Must Reads)
Capital cycle analysis is really about how competitive advantage changes over time, viewed from an investor’s perspective.
Edward Chancellor • Capital Returns
We believe that corporate leaders should view their portfolio of investments as containing three types of projects, which can be visualized as a pyramid (see Figure 3). The widest part, at the bottom, is a collection of core businesses.