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The time it takes before a company is forced out of the game is getting shorter and shorter.
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070 |
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…for the past 40+ years, we have been building companies with a definition of business that is actually bad for business and undermines the very system of capitalism it proclaims to embrace.
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072 |
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Companies exist to advance something – technology, quality of life or anything else with the potential to ease or enhance our lives in some way, shape or form.
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075 |
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That people are willing to pay money for whatever a company has to offer is simply proof that they perceive or derive some value from those things.
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075 |
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This the great irony. The defenders of finite-minded capitalism act in a way that actually imperils the survival of the very companies from which they aim to profit.
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079 |
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There is no such thing as constant growth, nor is there any rule that says high-speed growth is necessarily a great strategy when building a company to last.
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080 |
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Opening stores is not what makes a company successful; having those stores operate well is.
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080 |
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The fact is, public companies are different from private companies and do not need to conform to the same traditional definition of ownership.
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082 |
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In our modern day and age, it is the employee who bears the most cost for the money companies and their leaders make.
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085 |
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People want to be treated fairly and share in the wealth they helped produce in payment for the cost they bear to grow their companies.
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086 |
