Company Work Quotes

#1. I don't think it makes any sense for an individual to invest in common stocks unless they know the company, work at the company, and so on.

Eli Broad

#2. Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Vince Lombardi

#3. Almost 30 years ago, I started seeking help from a counselor with a master's of social work in New York City, but we were never a good match. It was like being in a bad relationship, except the guy could actually bill my health insurance company for lousy dates.

Gina Barreca

#4. Work as if you own the company and soon you just might.

Michael Dolan

#5. If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

Edward Abbey

#6. If you're working for a good company and you're happy there, and you're being compensated accordingly, and your work satisfies you, you should stay there.

Robert Kiyosaki

#7. Obviously in a work capacity I've been tremendously busy running The Trump Organization now that my father's on the campaign trail and my own company and the growth of that. So it's been an amazing time, a wild experience, and an incredible one.

Ivanka Trump

#8. I used to work for a management consulting company, so I dressed differently - business casual, probably a lot of things from Banana Republic. My wardrobe now is definitely more expensive, but I always dress for the occasion.

John Legend

#9. I tried to build a company my father would have been proud to work for, that he would have looked back on and said, 'That's the company that honoured me, even though I don't have an education'. I wanted to build a company that had a conscience.

Howard Schultz

#10. I love the company of actors, but the crazier it gets, the more I've come to realise how valuable my time is with my friends who work on the land or are builders or, you know, make music. Work in offices. Run shops.

Andrea Riseborough

#11. I want the new band to work together for a while, and when we're ready we'll invite every major record company to see us.

Tommy Bolin

#12. Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top.

Vernon Jordan

#13. Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it does with pure storytelling. So that people come and say: it's not just the building, it's the only place you can hear this kind of work.

Mark Rylance

#14. Back in early 1983, my dad was tasked with keeping unions from organizing in his company's distribution centers. His work pulled him away from home for months on end.

Jen Lancaster

#15. Mobile forced us to rethink the user experience and do something people would be able to carry out on in a couple of seconds on the mobile phone. By stripping out all the work the user used to do and putting that on the company, we were able to create a much better user experience.

Logan Green

#16. I think it's absolutely essential that the people that work for a company need to feel that they're part of something bigger - that it's not just a job.

John Mackey

#17. It is the leader's job to lead by example and enforce the values and the behaviors to set the culture for any company or work group. Show me a company in rapid decline, and I will show you someone in charge who doesn't give a _.

Beth Ramsay

#18. You might be smarter, your family might come from privilege, your daddy might own a company, but YOU WILL NOT OUT WORK ME!

Eric Thomas

#19. In my view the successful companies of the future will be those that integrate business and employees' personal values. The best people want to do work that contributes to society with a company whose values they share, where their actions count and their views matter.

Jeroen Van Der Veer

#20. A long time ago I discovered that when employees are passionate about their work, customers are passionate about the company. Kevin Sheridan knows that secret too. His insights on finding the right people and getting them engaged can change your culture forever.

Quint Studer

#21. I want Infosys to be a company which is globally respected and in where people belonging to different nationalities, races and religious beliefs will work with intense competition but utmost courtesy, dignity and co-operation in adding greater value to our stakeholders day after day.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#22. My dad was a businessman, and he would say, 'Work for free at the best company. Don't get paid a lot of money to work with the worst people.' And that's exactly how I see my career.

Topher Grace

#23. Somehow, the company must stay true to the founding vision while avoiding the pitfalls of rapid growth - and perhaps survive the hiring of a previously successful executive who doesn't work out.

Bing Gordon

#24. And if you're going to be a leader, you know what I ask myself? Would I want to work for you in this job? Would I let my children work for you? Would I give you this job if I wasn't there to provide oversight? If you went to run another company, would I, as an investor, invest in that company?

Jamie Dimon

#25. I work for a company that makes deceptively shallow serving dishes for Chinese restaurants.

Woody Allen

#26. We - not our company - are responsible for our attitudes. What happens each day at work doesn't get to determine my attitude, I do. Attitude is a decision. And it's a decision we have to make every day, sometimes every hour if that particular day is especially whack.

Jon Acuff

#27. What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.

Zeljko Ivanek

#28. I think that if you run a big company, you've got to, four or five times a year, just say, 'Hey team, look, here's where we're going.' If you do it 10 times, nobody wants to work for you. If you do it zero times, you have anarchy.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

#29. Our first priority should be the people who work for the companies, then the customers, then the shareholders. Because if the staff are motivated then the customers will be happy, and the shareholders will then benefit through the company's success.

Richard Branson

#30. I always feel a fool when in the company of people who work for a living. It brings out my startling lack of common sense.

Stephen Fry

#31. After 10 years TNA talent still have an inferiority complex. If you don't think that you work for the BEST COMPANY EVER then nobody else will! As a performer you hav to act and project that where you work is the pinnacle of competition! If not then the whole place just seems second rate.

Chris Jericho

#32. In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people's perspectives ... I really try and live the mission of the company and ... keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

Mark Zuckerberg

#33. First of all, if you're setting up a new company, you want to try to find a brand that can work on a global basis.

Richard Branson

#34. It's not enough to make time for your children. There are certain stages in their lives when you have to give them the time when they want it. You can't run your family like a company. It doesn't work.

Andy Grove

#35. Sports teams, people who follow sports teams, religion, churches, work - any company, I find that people just generally have a need to belong to something larger than themselves.

Sean Durkin

#36. One of the ways we'll know that Work-Out has been successful is that my style of leadership will no longer be tolerated in this company.

Jack Welch

#37. We wanted to premiere it in New York, because New York is sort of the home of the Jim Henson Company and it's sort of the tone and flavor, always, of the puppet work that we've done traditionally. And that's what brought us here and now we're here.

Brian Henson

#38. My father was a middle manager at an oil company, but I never knew anything about his work. Whatever business acumen I have just got gleaned over the years.

Donna Mills

#39. But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain.

Paul Krugman

#40. I think all of us are multitasking a little more today than we used to or than we would like to. And I think that the issue of work-life balance is a critical issue for every company around the world.

Irene Rosenfeld

#41. Those doing soul work, who want the searing truth more than solace or applause, know each other right away. Those who want something else turn and take a seat in another room. Soul-makers find each other's company.

Rumi

#42. Well, my motivation behind Tesla is really to do as much good as possible for the environment and the electric-vehicle revolution. I think there is still a lot of work to do and if we were to sell to a big company, I'm not sure it would progress at the same pace.

Elon Musk

#43. To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again. In their eternal calm, he finds himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#44. Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationships is.

Evan Williams

#45. I have a theory that you can tell what the head of a company is like by the people who work there. I knew a publishing house that was run on fear and paranoia, and I felt sorry for everyone who worked there. Needless to say, the person at the helm was not known for kindness, warmth, or grace.

Jane Green

#46. Prada is such a huge company, and it was an honour to work with them and so early on in my career.

Ymre Stiekema

#47. I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.

Elon Musk

#48. You can't be an entrepreneur and work in a public company anymore.

Irving Azoff

#49. 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

#50. My teachers encouraged me to audition for some professional work during our summer vacation. I landed my first job. It was for the National Theatre Company's Mimika Pantomime troupe. I ended up touring with them for the next two years.

Didi Conn

#51. Success travels in the company of very hard work. There is no trick, no easy way.

John Wooden

#52. Most of the guys from the club who are employees for the security company are out on runs. The other half of the club, the guys who work normal jobs, are out doing their thing

Katie McGarry

#53. Let's be honest - you work at a big company because it's comfortable. You don't have to work 80 hours per week, and you get paid, have nice benefits, and the family is all happy.

Robert Scoble

#54. I grew up in a working class family where there was no health insurance. I saw first hand the fracturing of the American dream and the bitterness that comes when there is no hope and a lot of despair. So I wanted to build the company, in a sense, that my father never got a chance to work for.

Howard Schultz

#55. Success is creating something original and lasting-whether it is a company, a work of art, an idea or analysis that influence others, or a happy and productive family.

Linda Chavez

#56. Work-life balance, work-life effectiveness, personal and professional satisfaction - or whatever you choose to call it - is not an entitlement or benefit. Your company cannot give it to you. You have to create it for yourself. You are personally responsible for living the best life you can.

Matthew Kelly

#57. Having enough other opportunities to work on is the best position a salesperson and his or her company can be in. A full pipeline gives salespeople the strongest position from which to negotiate - the ability to say no.

Keith M. Eades

#58. If you work for Google or Apple, stock options give you a chance to share in the increasing value of the company. In the N.F.L., nothing like this happens; the players, though rich, are just working stiffs like the rest of us.

James Surowiecki

#59. Isabella: "Why are you being so mean to me?"
Harry: "Because i love you"
Isabella: "Does that ever work?"
Harry: "On my mother it does."
Isabella: "I'm not your mother."
Harry: "I know that already, because I'm enjoying your company.

Claire LaZebnik

#60. In your company or industry, work every job in that industry. It's the only way of having a complete understanding of your people and your company.

John Catsimatidis

#61. Go Daddy is not just a job; it's a way of life. Our employees work hard, and offering great incentives is fun and productive for the company.

Bob Parsons

#62. At age 28, I had no retail experience, no consumer marketing experience and no real Internet experience. But I decided I wanted to work for myself. I felt starting a company would enable me to get the responsibility I deserved and that I couldn't do that within the confines of a bigger company.

Mariam Naficy

#63. My father was the child of academics and was probably destined to become an academic himself but vetoed that idea. Bailed, dropped out of graduate school and just went to work for an insurance company. But the house was full of books and music and all of that.

Lorrie Moore

#64. I was working in Lexington when I recognized this actor, Michael Shannon, and I was like, 'What do you do?' He told me to get into a theater company, so I got into a theater company near my hometown. I was a carpenter there. And then I slowly got some work.

Boyd Holbrook

#65. I didn't want to just work within Hollywood when I started a production company. I wanted to be able to collaborate with great artists from all over the world.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#66. IBM actually followed the recommendations and built a workplace where people can work. (We predict this company will go far.)

Tom DeMarco

#67. Dealing with a counter clerk at the phone company who had all the customer service skills of a homicidal sociopath on work release.

Jasmine Cresswell

#68. If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders including employees, customers, business partners and the communities within which they operate.

Don Tapscott

#69. I look at my father, who was in many ways an unhappy person, but who, not long before he got sick, said that the greatest source of satisfaction in his life had been going to work in the company of other workers.

Jonathan Franzen

#70. It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She used to work at a production company. So I was exposed to a renaissance period of films in New Zealand back in the early 80's.

Karl Urban

#71. I have to have the sensibility to keep Versace company in good shape because there are so many people working for it, and we need to have the company grow and also be relevant. So I work very hard for all that to happen, and I wish people would know me for that and be satisfied.

Nicki Minaj

#72. This is my company. My office. My desk. I make the rules, and you tried to subvert them. Now I'll show you how I run things here when a woman like you tears me away from work.

Lauren Blakely

#73. Asakawa himself didn't much care if the company made money or lost it. All that mattered to him was whether or not the work was engaging. No matter how easy a job was physically, if it didn't involve imagination, it usually ended up exhausting you.

Koji Suzuki

#74. I'm working on my own work, my own publishing company.

John Van Hamersveld

#75. It is always rather dismal work walking over the great snow plain when sky and surface merge in one pall of dead whiteness, but it is cheering to be in such good company with everything going on steadily and well.

Robert Falcon Scott

#76. I'd like the people teaching my kids to be good enough that they could get a job at the company I work for, making a hundred thousand dollars a year. Why should they work at a school for thirty-five to forty thousand dollars if they could get a job here at a hundred thousand dollars a year?

Steve Jobs

#77. I now work for a finance company in Luxembourg with projects in South America and the Caribbean.

Mathias Rust

#78. In a beautiful morning, walking barefoot to the work through the green fields with the company of the singing birds ... and there you shall meet the real happiness!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#79. I got a little studio in Chicago and practiced. I realized I had to earn some money. So I went to work for an advertising agency where my job was mostly drawing insects for a company that sold an insecticide spray.

Claes Oldenburg

#80. I would love to have access to a company like Caterpillar. I would make all their stuff remote controlled and work ten times as fast.

Jamie Hyneman

#81. Yes, virus companies are playing on your fears to try to sell you bs protection software for Android, RIM and IOS. They are charlatans and scammers. IF you work for a company selling virus protection for android, rim or IOS you should be ashamed of yourself.

Chris DiBona

#82. I love working with the same actors repeatedly. That happens a lot. It's kind of inevitable, especially if you work with the same writers and directors and you start to form a company of actors. You gravitate towards each other.

Peter Dinklage

#83. Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly I find I don't have much time to code any more.

Eric Allman

#84. Most importantly, we want to create a company where every employee can bring their whole selves to work.

Indra Nooyi

#85. If you're not in college and you don't know a cofounder, the next best thing I think is to go work at an interesting company.

Sam Altman

#86. News Corporation, today, reaches people at home and at work ... when they're thinking ... when they're laughing ... and when they are making choices that have enormous impact. The unique potential.. and duty.. of a media company are to help its audiences connect to the issues that define our time.

Rupert Murdoch

#87. Once the day's work starts there is little chance to walk, to ride or to take part in a game. Taking walks or rides early in the morning is a lonesome business, and the inevitable Secret Service guard when the president leaves the White House grounds is not enlivening company.

Herbert Hoover

#88. My grandma had a kids' clothing store for over 30 years called Shannon and Company, and my sisters and I used to go and work there in the summers.

Kourtney Kardashian

#89. People must work together for a company to thrive.

Donald J. Trump

#90. I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#91. The word attitude doesn't mean you should be committed and loyal to your supervisor. Attitude means dedicated, committed and more clinical to the work you do and the company you're doing the work for.

Vivek Thangaswamy

#92. I'm married to an American. I work for a company that is, you know, its headquarters in the U.S.

Wael Ghonim

#93. I've never run a company before, and I don't want to feel like a boss. I just want to turn up and do my work.

Markus Persson

#94. This world is changing enormously. In any position in a company you need to work very hard on learning new skills every day, but you also need to unlearn some of the old skills from the past.

Paul Polman

#95. For heaven's sake, this is 2015. I've run the largest technology company in the world. Let me assure you we know how to build an employer verification system that would work. We can solve this. We just need to do it.

John Kasich

#96. Intrapreneurs work and lead with the Producer mindset. They run their department, team, or company with an abundance mentality, an attachment to true principles, and a fearless and informed faith in people and quality.

Oliver DeMille

#97. Twitter is hard to evaluate. They have a lot of potential. It's a horribly mismanaged company - probably a lot of pot-smoking going on there. But it's such a solid franchise it may even work with all that,

Peter Thiel

#98. If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on, it's been phenomenal for South Dakota.

Bill Janklow

#99. 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

#100. 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