“If General Motors is going to survive, they have to be a smaller organization and get the cost structure under control. They've got to become lean, streamline their processes, get products to market faster and take more risks.”
Erich Merkle
“We have the opportunity to continue, mostly in the smaller and mid-sized kind of range, to grow both organically and through acquisitions, ... And we have the balance sheet to do it.”
Dave Anderson
“The smaller figure is already a negative factor for the dollar. General sentiment for the dollar is negative, especially against the euro.”
Masafumi Yamamoto
“Lions Gate has generally been successful with horror and it's not surprising. Horror is the sort of thing that smaller independents have historically done well.”
Dennis McAlpine
“When the general market started to turn a bit flat in October, we knew we needed to look at smaller shares in growth areas, so we started researching the metals sector.”
David Lawrence
“The Europeans are already well-structured with diesel and smaller vehicles, whereas the Big Three had to quickly be forced to spend a little more attention on the passenger car market.”
Michael Robinet
“The general pattern is that big companies let the other companies do the innovations for them. Smaller companies can do innovation in a more agile fashion outside the boundaries of a large company, and they get acquired.”
Stephen O'Grady
