"Due to an early advantage, Coke has been dominating the Cola Wars for over a hundred years."
"Procter and Gamble has not only stood the test of time but has also weathered the storm of rough economic conditions along the way."
"Over the following half century, Yankee Candle would grow into one of the most famous candle companies in the world."
"We're still getting Christmas cards and things from guys that rode for us 20 odd years ago."
"Elon Musk almost sold Tesla to Google at a certain point."
"A combination of market growth, the explosion of the smartphone, and other competitors eventually pushed Kodak out of Photography."
"Probably the best way to explain is to share a quick story about where Slack came from."
"Kodak could never move beyond the idea of selling film and providing photography services prior CEO Colby Chandler tried diversifying investing in floppy disks batteries artificial snow and pharmaceuticals."
"At its peak Club Libby Lu was a subsidiary of sacks and at almost 100 locations nationwide by November 2008."
"Many of the most famous car companies at some point fail, but their legacy remains."
"The alliance of Bill Gates and Paul Allen stands as a prime example of successful collaboration."
"In 1894, Milton established the Hershey Chocolate Company."
"Nintendo approached Atari, they wanted to release a console under the Atari brand."
"Borders soon became one of the largest book retailers in the world."
"The rise and fall of Myspace is certainly not your typical business story."
"In 1990, the very first company to develop a multiple brand strategy and the manufacture and distribution of agricultural equipment was born. That company is AGCO."
"AGCO has a great history in Europe, South America, Australia, Africa, China, and many other places around the world."
"The trademark for iPhone and iOS were actually not owned by Apple but instead by a networking company called Cisco."
"In order to make this really work for us, we have to go back in time...to 1963 when GM had 50% of the market and Toyota had none."
"Private labels have come a long way in 40-plus years."
"Wayne sold his stake back to Jobs and Wozniak for 800 just 12 days after the company was born."
"From apprenticeship to empire: the remarkable story of Louis Vuitton."
"From 1.1 billion to 3 million: Yahoo's epic investment in Tumblr."
"For a number of years it seemed best to us to employ the Mrs. Browning brothers. They had got to feel that they were the only people who could invent guns."
"Ansett became a name synonymous with failure and collapse."
"Pepsi cola became the first company introduced motorized vehicle delivery for soda."
"Nintendo originally approached Atari about releasing the Famicom in the US."
"I just found out he didn't start Tesla, you know what he did? He just bought it from somebody."
"The results from the sales of the Hula Burger and the Filet-O-Fish on Good Friday were: Filet-O-Fish 350, to the Hula Burger at just six."
"The 1901 sale of Carnegie steel to JP Morgan for an astonishing $480 million was more than just a business transaction."
"Nintendo started out by making playing cards by hand and as they gained more popularity Nintendo needed more hands to fill the demand."
"It really had a run until 2000, and then something broke with Microsoft as well."
"The main difference is that the people who were the Hercules partners, the Paulsens, the Days, and the Huttons, continued to own the Hercules throughout its history."
"Well, did you know that when Abercrombie & Fitch started over a century ago, they actually started as a sporting goods company?"
"It started back in '95 as far as the company. Prior to that, I was in athletics with football."
"Kaizen's history begins after the second world war... this implementation influenced American business professionals."
"Perhaps the most equitable division of wealth in the history of business."
"Customer satisfaction surveys showed that Papa John's ranked above Domino's and Pizza Hut from 1999 up until the start of the Great Recession in 2008."
"Henry Ford said, 'If I don't pay these people well enough to buy my car, who will buy my car? I'll pay them all really well,' and he did."
"Seeing the two different companies, the whole German split apart and did their own thing, I think it's really interesting."
"Rollins is an interesting company in that it was started back in 1922, okay, and unlike most companies founded before the Great Depression, it not only survived but they're still in business."
"The Rogers company has its roots in places like New York State, Farmingdale, New Jersey."
"Across the history of human commerce, no other company even comes close to their longevity and scope."
"I own Ben's Antiques which some of y'all may know, and some of you may not. I've had my shop since 1985."