David Sze Quotes

If guys try to make a bigger company for the sake of size, they don't create value in most cases.

No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn't.

We continue to see acquisitions as an opportunity area for us. It's one of the tools that we use to grow.

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.

It's competition that forces companies to get out of their complacency.

Cisco never had a red quarter. Never. Took us three years to get funding, and in those three years, we were never in the red, and that was because we had two products to sell. They were not sexy or cool, but we had enough of a market that we could generate enough of a cash stream to grow the company.

I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.

Google worries - and rightly so - about how hard it is for a big company to come up with the next hot thing.

It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.

Even when early innovations start to succeed, it is not uncommon to see growing businesses sabotaged for threatening the status quo.

I say at our management conferences that the amount Wal-Mart grows in just one year is the equivalent of Costco's size.

As they grow, companies saturate their markets, become more complex and difficult to manage, and face larger and more entrenched competitors.

You have to be willing to risk things; otherwise, somebody else will put you out of business.

The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

When you compete with Wal-Mart, even if you think you've found a niche don't ever become complacent.

Well, as we built the business in the 1990's, as I said, I enjoyed that.

When you look at a company that's already succeeded or is at the very top of its game, it isn't necessarily when it's executing well. It tends to be peacetime - you've defeated the competition, you have the highest margins, the highest multiple.

I like being part of a big company's executive team. It's fun to stretch other parts of my brain, considering questions like, 'How should we think of acquisitions?' I get to be privy to things that would never come up at a small company.

Votorantim is attentive to opportunities that arise in both domestic and international markets to expand its businesses.

There's an ongoing competition by global companies across all areas from products, technology development and hiring talented people to patent disputes. The market is big and opportunities are wide open, so we should find out new businesses that Samsung's future will hinge on.

No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.

The truth is that most small businesses will not succeed and you need to be emotionally prepared for this.

Businesswise, everything's been good.

Market expansion is not an opportunity. It is a necessity.