Frederic Coudert Quotes (4 Quotes)

It's very hard to run an organization if you have too many satellite offices,

But many of its offices - in Jakarta, Stockholm, Melbourne, St. Petersburg, Brussels, Bangkok, Sydney and dozens of other cities - were not particularly profitable. Some lost money. It's very hard to run an organization if you have too many satellite offices, ... We had a lot of profitable ones, but it didn't add up to a good total.

In the major international firms, what's different today is you have more of a corporate-type organizational structure,

It was young, idealistic and wonderful. But idealists have a hard time in this world.