Among the world's 500 largest companies, not one has completely relied on its own growth to develop.
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Usually, the biggest companies are not the most dynamic.
No business in the world has ever made more money with poorer management.
Most Fortune 500 companies began as small start-ups whose entrepreneurial founders slowly developed the infrastructure, hired the staff, sourced manufacturers or built their own factory, and created distribution, sales, and marketing plans.
A lot of people who own a business aren't entrepreneurial at all.
But if you look at WorldCom, which is the biggest failure to date, they grew dramatically, they were buying companies that were bigger than they were and they were doing it off inflated stock.
Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.
Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
Without investment there will not be growth, and without growth there will not be employment.
Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn't achieved without it.
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