A big company is like trying to steer a luxury liner.
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Building a company isn't that different from climbing a big mountain. You need people helping you traverse treacherous paths and to lift you up when you fall.
A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it's harder to turn quickly.
Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.
In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.
I've always found a way to make my way, and now I've had the fortune of being hired by a great company - Chrysler Corporation - one of the original Big Three.
First of all, every new company today is being built in the face of massive economic headwinds, making the challenge far greater than it was in the relatively benign '90s.
Successful companies hire people.
Forget luxury; as a great company you have to keep evolving.
Living in London is like being on a luxury cruise liner.
There's a smugness that goes with being a huge company. The big fish say, 'If it's so great, why didn't we invent it?' But how'd you like to be makin' buggy whips when cars came along?