#companies

Astronomers are greatly disappointed when, having traveled halfway around the world to see an eclipse, clouds prevent a sight of it; and yet a sense of relief accompanies the disappointment. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#around #astronomers #clouds #disappointed #disappointment

Many dotcoms recruited people from existing companies who were quite experienced in finance, marketing, distribution and other disciplines but not necessarily experienced in the Web culture. ↗

— John Patrick

#culture #disciplines #distribution #existing #experienced

We had an EP out and all of a sudden we find record companies are interested in us, and we're thinking, 'Oh, that's really nice, but we don't think we're ready for it.' ↗

— Debbi Peterson

#find #had #interested #nice #oh

When we came then to the 1967 negotiations we had the problem of one market between two countries fully under the control of the American companies that owned the facilities on both sides of the border. ↗

— Leonard Woodcock

#american companies #between #border #both #both sides

I'm surprised at the extent of the bigotry. But it really plays out when companies or schools take a side and prohibit the other platform at all. We Mac users should be good even when the other side is bad. We should do what we can to accept the other platforms. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#bad #companies #even #extent #good

I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream. ↗

— Andrew Young

#american dream #battling #believe #committed #companies

I've been an entrepreneur three times. I started three companies. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#companies #entrepreneur #i #started #three

There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#companies #graduating #late #most #part

Tech stocks are trading at a 30-year-low when compared to the multiples of industrials (companies). It's the weirdest bubble when everyone hates everything. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#companies #compared #everyone #everything #hates

Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#all-time #companies #earnings #hates #low