Business Company Quotes

#1. We've had public companies in the past in that business and they bleed. We've got a lot more blood than they do.

Warren Buffett

#2. The teams that worked on the innovative distribution of 'The Interview' are just a few of the many that put in long hours over our studio holiday to ensure business continuity, rebuild our systems, and protect our company.

Michael Lynton

#3. Because I don't see Virgin as a company but as a way of life and I fully enjoy it, I don't think I'll ever retire.

Richard Branson

#4. My company is in the business of content, delivering content, so whether you see it or taste it or hear it or smell it, that's what I do every day.

Ryan Seacrest

#5. It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to the public. Secrecy is an important factor of success in the commodity business.

Marc Rich

#6. There's a lot of symbolism to your return. Is that going to be enough to reinvigorate the company with a sense of magic?

Steve Jobs

#7. I was fortunate that I came out to the Valley in 1979, when I came out to go to Stanford Business School, and my very first assignment as a teaching assistant for an investments professor was to - he told me go down to this computer company in Cupertino called Apple.

Frank Quattrone

#8. Why should a manufacturer bet his money, perhaps the future of his company, on your instinct?

David Ogilvy

#9. What I learned from my years in Silicon Valley is that design can have a primary role in how a business is shaped, how a company can be design-driven. In my experience of large industry in Europe, that knowledge has been lost.

Yves Behar

#10. This is important stuff, so it's crucial not to get too serious, to realize that this is all fun and games. The attitude 'business is serious, it's not fun and games' leads to financial failure, and I won't tolerate it in my company.

Martha N. Beck

#11. The fast-food industry is in very good company with the lead industry and the tobacco industry in how it tries to mislead the public, and how aggressively it goes after anybody who criticizes its business practices.

Eric Schlosser

#12. I never wanted to run a production company. I didn't want to convert my life into running a business ... so I always resisted it and kept things simple.

Anne Robinson

#13. People are definitely a company's greatest asset. It doesn't make any difference whether the product is cars or cosmetics. A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

Mary Kay Ash

#14. The Ford Motor Company has always been part of my life, and I continue to draw a lot of energy from this wonderful and exciting business.

William Clay Ford, Sr.

#15. See's candy company was the first high-quality business we ever bought.

Charlie Munger

#16. It seems like every time I agree to work with a video game company they go out of business. I stopped because I was starting to feel guilty.

Neil Gaiman

#17. IT has to provide both business and technological insight into how they bring success to the company as a whole transparently, holistically, and continually.

Pearl Zhu

#18. A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.

James C. Collins

#19. Commodore did not have a reputation for fun and games in 1980 - they were CBM, the business machine company.

Brian Bagnall

#20. Engaging in social business is beneficial to a company because it leverages on business competencies to address social issues, involves one-time investment with sustainable results, and produces other positive effects such as employee motivation and improved organizational culture.

Muhammad Yunus

#21. Countries don't go out of business ... The infrastructure doesn't go away, the productivity of the people doesn't go away, the natural resources don't go away. And so their assets always exceed their liabilities, which is the technical reason for bankruptcy. And that's very different from a company.

Walter Wriston

#22. The best business in the world is a well run oil company. The second best business in the world is a badly run oil company.

John D. Rockefeller

#23. There are three points I used to help a gourmet chocolatier increase sales 300% in a single month as well as a Midwest city to increase tourism guests 500% in 12 months.

David Brier

#24. Whatever the reasons, would-be entrepreneurs should be forewarned. Going into business for yourself isn't just risky because your business might fail. It's risky because you might have a harder time getting a job in the future, even if you succeed with your company.

Scott Shane

#25. There is a business here first of all, as a company and secondly, the ability to make films that audiences want to see and wouldn't get the opportunity to see. It's exciting. That's where our whole thought process originated from.

Courtney Solomon

#26. A lot of international companies invest in the U.K. as a base for doing business with the rest of the European Union.

Tim Harford

#27. I've also built my own business, and obviously it's a brand that I've built and it's wholly owned by me and something that certainly my experience observing him and working with him and for him has informed how I make business decisions around my brand. But it's my company.

Ivanka Trump

#28. I've drunk Amazon's free Diet Coke. Nothing makes more sense to me than a company trying to make bookselling into a profitable business. I'm not anti-Amazon, and I'm not pro-publishers either. I'm pro-books.

Lev Grossman

#29. The business model piece is we're always talking about competing more effectively. If you're starting a company or career you don't want to compete. You want to create a monopoly. We want to invest in a company that has a good plan to create a monopoly.

Peter Thiel

#30. Every business, like a painting, operates according to its own rules. There are many ways to run a successful company. What works once may never work again. What everyone tells you never to do may just work, once.

Richard Branson

#31. I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because you want to get along with whatever record company you're dealing with. I don't want to be flaky. I don't want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.

Frank Black

#32. Money, while clearly helpful in solving myriad problems, can often conceal a business's real flaws. It can also risk rigidifying a company's business model at the very moment it should be in 'customer discovery' mode or iterating around market opportunities.

Maelle Gavet

#33. We do not view the company itself as the ultimate owner of our business assets but instead view the company as a conduit through which our shareholders own assets.

Warren Buffett

#34. A business without loyalty is a business without long-term thinking. A business without long-term thinking is a business that's unable to invest in the future. And a business that isn't investing in tomorrow's opportunities and technologies - well, that's a company already in the process of dying.

Reid Hoffman

#35. A cat never discusses his business with humans, not even Princesses. A cat never explains and never apologizes. A cat never alibis. You must accept a cat as it is and for what it is and not expect more than the pleasure of its company.

Terry Brooks

#36. McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.

Dave Eggers

#37. In a company where tech decisions were still ultracentralized, the repercussions of a distracted CEO had to be damaging.

Paul Allen

#38. In business, sometimes you have to change the CEO in order to change the direction of the company.

Thomas Massie

#39. We kind of missed the boat on that," he recalled. " So we needed to catch up real fast." The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to leapfrog when it find itself behind.

Walter Isaacson

#40. Larry Fink, 61, tall and outgoing and passionate about his business, is the chairman, CEO, and co-founder of the largest asset-management company in the world, BlackRock.

Carol Loomis

#41. I wanted a CFO with public company experience; I needed an HR department, new office space, and a board which could help me grow the business. Insight, the private equity firm I chose, helped me with all that.

Jon Oringer

#42. Most people, including me, don't like tracking their time. However, few things will give you better insight into what is going on with your startup company than a time report. If you don't know what people are spending time on, then you probably don't have a good handle on your business.

Mike Moyer

#43. If you start a chocolate company, you can't compete with Cadbury in the first ten years because they are a big company.

Tamim Iqbal

#44. If you're creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your company needs you more than it ever did. And now your company can no longer afford to pretend that isn't the case. So dust off your horn and start tooting.

Hugh MacLeod

#45. Since most startups operate at a break-neck pace, with a concept to prove or a product to launch within a rapidly shortening runway of financing, company culture often gets shoved aside. This is a big, big mistake: Nobody serious about their business should put culture in the corner.

Leah Busque

#46. I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.

Earl Campbell

#47. When you are in business for a long time, you go through good times and bad times. When you go through bad times, you learn to control costs, satisfy customers better, satisfy employees better and become more transparent. Therefore, you build character in the company.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#48. Running the company for the shareholders often reduces its long-term growth potential.

Ha-Joon Chang

#49. You can't run a company simply by the numbers. So if you're going to bet on someone, you bet on someone you want to be in business with for a long time.

Amy Pascal

#50. Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company.

Ornette Coleman

#51. Learning how to interact with customers is something that anyone starting any business must master. It's an amazing opportunity to be able to learn the ropes at an established company and then employ your expertise at your own company.

Marc Benioff

#52. When it comes to branding and the ever-changing social media phenomenon, you're not a mushroom. In other words, you shouldn't be kept in the dark and fed a pile of...well, you get the idea.

David Brier

#53. The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn't be bothered with looking a certain way. So I left the business. I don't regret it.

Kim Wilde

#54. I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities. At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods - that's where I'm really happy.

Matthew McConaughey

#55. One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.

Abraham Lincoln

#56. Thirty years ago, about 80% of a company's assets resided in its plant and equipment, with 20% in the knowledge of its people. Today, the reverse is true. The knowledge of our staff is our principal asset

Susan Rice

#57. I love this company. I don't know how it was selected. It's a bunch of machers. They mean business.

Jeffrey Tambor

#58. At O'Reilly, the way we think about our business is that we're not a publisher; we're not a conference producer; we're a company that helps change the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators.

Tim O'Reilly

#59. When you're building a business or joining a company, you have to be transparent; you can't have two sets of information for two sets of people.

Howard Schultz

#60. I support Democrats and Republicans. And I'm telling you that the business community in this company is frightened to death of the weird political philosophy of the President of the United States. And until he's gone, everybody's going to be sitting on their thumbs.

Steve Wynn

#61. I have been in the business long enough to know what an intense amount of work it takes to operate a theater company.

Demian Bichir

#62. All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Tom Peters

#63. But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care - which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well.

Fernando Flores

#64. Though you may be paid minimum wage, to the customers you are the face of the entire company.

Sophia Amoruso

#65. I was going to dine at the television company's expense with one of the most beautiful women in show business and some television producer with an inferiority complex. In my experience, there's always a price.

V.T. Davy

#66. Doing theater anywhere, especially in L.A., is a constant uphill battle, and there's also the unsexy parts of the business that you're faced with, like getting money. It's a really great thing to do. You feel like you're really an artist when you're doing that and you're in a company of artists.

Finn Wittrock

#67. We built this company from the customer back, not from the company out.

Lou Gerstner

#68. The basic principle which I believe has contributed more than any other to the building of our business as it is today, is the ownership of our company by the people employed in it.

James E. Casey

#69. Starting a business is risky. Half of all new businesses fail to experience a fifth anniversary. And everyone knows that you could lose all the money you've invested in your new company and then some. Those are the obvious risks of trying to be an entrepreneur.

Scott Shane

#70. A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business.

John Mellencamp

#71. I thought a company that provides mutual-fund information could be a great business, because you could construct an effective moat by building large financial databases and customer lists and a strong brand name.

Joe Mansueto

#72. If joining IBM was commitment, not employment, and the company engaged in something more than business, it had a right to demand of its men unconditional loyalty, Watson believed.

Thomas Watson

#73. Every company has big data in its future and every company will eventually be in the data business.

Thomas H. Davenport

#74. Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.

Gavin Newsom

#75. A great sports car that goes from 0-60 in 3.9 seconds is just a fact. To the wrong audience, it's irrelevant. But to the right audience, it's a passion.

David Brier

#76. The labels are in a jam. For a company to do well in music now, it's got to be in all aspects of the business. And Live Nation is the risk-taker. It's leading the charge.

Guy Oseary

#77. The most common way to grow a business is by overseeing each and every aspect of the company - the 'ground up' method.

Lynda Resnick

#78. I realized that a company can build a business, do good in society, and have fun. These three goals can run alongside one another, without being dominated by the bottom line.

Biz Stone

#79. As much as you need a strong personality to build a business from scratch, you also must understand the art of delegation. I have to be good at helping people run the individual businesses, and I have to be willing to step back. The company must be set up so it can continue without me.

Richard Branson

#80. In business, poor performance leads to bankruptcy or, at a minimum, a restructuring of the company. In American education, failure entitles the bankrupt system to even more taxpayer dollars.

Cal Thomas

#81. I sensed my chance and embraced the telecom business. I started marketing telephones, answering/fax machines under the brand name Beetel, and the company picked up really fast.

Sunil Mittal

#82. My mother was a great typist. She said she loved to type because it gave her time to think. She was a secretary for an insurance company. She was a poor girl; she'd grown up in an orphanage, and she went to a business college - and then worked to put her brothers through school.

Robert Wilson

#83. From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness.

Sanford I. Weill

#84. From my point of view, what I really like, what I think is really terrific about my work, is that the company's had the opportunity to train literally thousands and thousands of brand new franchisees to successfully run their very first business.

Fred DeLuca

#85. was permitted to start business. Soon the royal partner ran up such huge debts on equity that the company went bankrupt. The Chinese partner was left with the bill, and could not leave Thailand until his family paid everyone off. He had been royally plundered.

Sterling Seagrave

#86. Of all the depressing abuses of language in business, there is none that gets me so incensed as the rampant overuse of the word 'passionate' in company slogans, marketing blurbs, mission statements and on the sides of vans.

Tom Hodgkinson

#87. Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.

Ben Horowitz

#88. An adaptable company is one that captures more than its fair share of new opportunities. It's always redefining its 'core business' in ways that open up new avenues for growth.

Gary Hamel

#89. Whenever one or more components of a company's business model changes, new business models are created for supporting companies. The changes might involve niches served, new marketing angles or improved value propositions.

Marc Ostrofsky

#90. Wright is a visionary with a great strategic mind, and he's a strong business leader with outstanding people skills, ... He's a terrific guy and will be a key force in guiding the company's future growth.

Jack Welch

#91. Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it's probably a bad business in which to invest.

Robert Kiyosaki

#92. I don't determine the singles. I believe the record company sends a bunch of CDs out to people that they trust in the business, and wait for their response to determine which songs will become singles.

Flora Purim

#93. Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.

Peter Singer

#94. Our co-founder and company president, Jim Levy, came from a record industry background and understood the marketing and promotion of artists as well as products. So the video game business went from absolutely zero designer credit to something approaching rock star promotion.

David Crane

#95. But I'm really trying to run this company like it is going to be here a hundred years from now. That's what's important.

Yvon Chouinard

#96. I care more about the people than about the company. That's why I don't want to own it. I don't want to run a business. People do it better than I do.

Karl Lagerfeld

#97. I haven't given up me and I get to be a big part of my girls' lives. It's an amazing feeling that what I put into my business, I get out of it.- Jennifer Saint Jean, Itty Bitty Bag Company

Holly Hurd

#98. I can honestly say that TOMS is my future. I mean I have no desire to start any other company for as long as I live because this is the perfect blend of business and philanthropy to me.

Blake Mycoskie

#99. Nike is a marketing-oriented company, and the product is our most important marketing tool

Phil Knight

#100. I think that maybe in every company today there is always at least one person who is going crazy slowly.

Joseph Heller