Top 100 Company's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I am excited to join the Workday Board at an exciting time in the company's growth and look forward to leveraging my past experience as a technologist and entrepreneur to provide advice as they continue to look at new areas of growth.
Jerry Yang
#3. The guardians of your company's cyber security should be encouraged to network within the industry to swap information on the latest hacker tricks and most effective defenses.
Nina Easton
#4. The rationales for centralized, to-down decision making - control, direction, and compliance - melts away when individuals are tightly aligned with the company's values and goals, accountable for their actions, and self-regulated.
Dov Seidman
#5. Look, every institution will make mistakes. I acknowledge we make mistakes, and they can hurt my reputation and our company's. But you also must be willing to let go a little bit, trust others, and not always be so stringent, provided you have robust controls.
Jamie Dimon
#6. The stock market cares about only one thing above all else: anticipated earnings. If companies make more money, their share prices eventually rise. The stock price is simply a reflection of a company's earning power. Everything else is noise.
Peter Mallouk
#7. The CEO of the Olive Garden blames his company's low profits on Obamacare - which is odd because most people won't eat at the Olive Garden until they have health insurance.
Conan O'Brien
#8. In a larger business context, an example of the "Genius of the And" would be a company's constant attention to both long-term growth and quarterly results.
Peter Pande
#9. I start with people's growth, my own growth included. I don't start with the company's strategy or products. I start with people's growth because I believe that if the people who are running and participating in a company grow, then the company's growth will in many respects take care of itself.
James McNerney
#10. When, in the immediate postwar era, someone at Chrysler had designed a smaller, low-slung car, K. T. Keller, the company's top executive, had mocked it. "Chrysler builds cars to sit in," he said, "not to piss over.
David Halberstam
#11. Your customers are responsible for your company's reason for existing.
Marilyn Suttle
#12. The company's most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand - innovation from everyone.
Tom Peters
#13. 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
#14. HR should be every company's killer app. What could possibly be more important than who gets hired?
Jack Welch
#15. I think Facebook is an extraordinarily important part of the Internet ecosystem, and having a robust presence there is a critical part of any brand (or company's) strategy.
John Battelle
#16. Where has this book been? The Culture Engine demystifies the what and how of driving your company's culture to produce transformational business outcomes. Chris Edmonds operationalizes culture while offering practical tools necessary to align your people and gain profound competitive advantage.
Joseph Michelli
#17. I come back to the same thing: We've got the greatest pipeline in the company's history in the next 12 months, and we've had the most amazing financial results possible over the last five years, and we're predicting being back at double-digit revenue growth in fiscal year '06.
Steve Ballmer
#18. The company's stock dropped like seagull turds on a car hood, panties on prom night, celebrity names during red-carpet coverage.
Dennis Vickers
#19. Creativity is every company's first driver. It's where everything starts, where energy and forward motion originate. Without that first charge of creativity, nothing else can take place.
Nolan Bushnell
#20. A company's employees are its greatest asset and your people are your product
Richard Branson
#21. After the non-Japanese Carlos Ghosn was brought in by Nissan to turn around the struggling auto manufacturer, he made English the company's official working language.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#22. Email has the virtue - sounds like a bad thing, but it's the virtue of being the lowest common denominator messaging protocol. Everyone can have it. It can cross organizational boundaries. No one owns it. It's not some particular company's platform.
Stewart Butterfield
#23. Insider trading is hard to prove. To be convicted, a person must have bought or sold a stock based on material information that is both unknown to the general public and likely to have had an important effect on a company's stock price.
Alex Berenson
#24. I will know that I am using my skills in X, Y, and Z to make a real, significant contribution to boost our company's growth/market share/profit and I will feel excited and happy about that.
Peggy McKee
#25. FameBit has a bounty model which allows brands to post products and services and have YouTube content producers directly build video segments around a company's virtual or actual wares.
Anonymous
#26. When it comes to innovation, a company's legacy beliefs are a much bigger liability than its legacy costs. - Gary Hamel
Jackie Fenn
#27. The most important 'speed' issue is often not technical but cultural. It's convincing everyone that the company's survival depends on everyone moving as fast as possible.
Bill Gates
#28. Strauss Group continues to strengthen its future growth engines, improve the company's competitive position, and increase market share, while continuing streamlining processes, improvements, and carrying out organizational adjustments in the company.
Ofra Strauss
#29. Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.
Michael LeBoeuf
#30. Even if your company's financial condition can withstand the inefficiency of quality service, your brand likely won't.
Jim Blasingame
#31. Death to Core Competency," suggests that whatever a company's specialty product or service might be - whatever got you to where you are today - might not be the thing that gets you to the next level.
Warren Berger
#32. Facebook's headquarters is a two-story building at the end of a quiet, tree-lined street. Zuckerberg nicknamed it the Bunker. Facebook has grown so fast that this is the company's fifth home in six years - the third in Palo Alto. There is virtually no indication outside of the Bunker's tenant.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#33. The company's leadership plays a major role in framing the right questions for decision-making.
Pearl Zhu
#34. Bringing together the right information with the right people will dramatically improve a company's ability to develop and act on strategic business opportunities.
Bill Gates
#35. Your personal core values define who you are, and a company's core values ultimately define the company's character and brand. For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.
Tony Hsieh
#36. It's hard to lose weight when you're dining on the company's money.
Alan Kotok
#37. So, your kids must love the iPad?" I asked Mr. [Steve] Jobs, trying to change the subject. The company's first tablet was just hitting the shelves. "They haven't used it," he told me. "We limit how much technology our kids use at home."
(Nytimes article, Sept. 10, 2014)
Nick Bilton
#38. We have built a company with a business mix and operating system that will allow us to deliver record results in any foreseeable economic climate, ... We have just completed a very successful management transition and I've never been more confident about the company's future.
Jack Welch
#39. Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals.
Chip Conley
#40. Motivated employees are crucial to a company's success.
Anne Rice
#41. You need to simplify the value proposition in the company's metrics for success on a whiteboard.
Keith Rabois
#42. Marketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company's ultimate objective.
Al Ries
#43. The techniques of being an Internet visionary are just like those of lower-tech fortunetellers through the ages. A technological visionary must tell people what they want to hear, because your company's stock won't rise if you spout an unpopular vision to analysts.
Nathan Myhrvold
#44. I think the company's [HP's] success will be my legacy. The company's failure will be my failure, with all the predictable consequences of that.
Carly Fiorina
#45. I call it the Rule of Three. If you read a company's financial statements three times, and you still can't figure out how they make their money, that's usually for a reason.
James Chanos
#46. It is a company's customers who effectively control what it can and cannot do.
Clayton Christensen
#47. One common behavior of late Stage 3 [in the process of a company's decline] is when those in power blame other people or external factors- or otherwise explain away the data- rather than confront the frightening reality that the enterprise may be in serious trouble.
Susan Collins
#48. Too many talk about a company's leadership, referring to the senior most executives in the organization. They are just that: senior executives. Leadership doesn't automatically happen when you reach a certain pay grade. Hopefully you find it there, but there are no guarantees.
Travis Bradberry
#49. A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.
Bill Gates
#50. For a startup to overcome obstacles and succeed, it must foster limitless thinking. By hiring students into their first career job, you get to set their framework for how a company functions and instill them with your values for your company's culture.
Jay Samit
#51. It is the logical next step in our ongoing effort to shift our company's centre of gravity, accelerate our growth
Denise Morrison
#52. We believe that a company's obligations extend far beyond its bottom line and its shareholders - to a wider constituency that includes employees, customers, suppliers, and the community.
John A. Byrne
#53. I think we have the same goals in mind. We are not planning on just all of a sudden taking a film and separating. Hopefully one day she can direct me in something, or I will direct her. Or we'll produce a movie under our company's name.
Mary-Kate Olsen
#54. A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.
William Feather
#55. At Google, operations are not just an afterthought: they are critical to the company's success, and we want to have just as much effort and creativity in this domain as in new product development.
Eric Schmidt
#56. You read the Company's confidential correspondence?' I asked. He hadn't a word to say. It was great fun. 'When Mr. Kurtz,' I continued severely, 'is General Manager, you won't have the opportunity.' He blew the candle out suddenly, and we went outside. The moon had risen. Black
Joseph Conrad
#57. 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
#58. Chick-fil-A is not welcome in New York City as long as the company's president continues to uphold and promote his discriminatory views.
Christine Quinn
#59. A company's best advantage should be a quality product offered at the right price. That fair competition is what drives innovation.
Chellie Pingree
#60. Speech within the kingdom of Amazonia - run by its sovereign Jeff Bezos and his board of directors with help from the wise counsel and judgment of the company's executives - is not protected in the same way that speech is constitutionally protected in America's public spaces.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#61. The model and size of the server was determined with help from an application vendor who provided a recommended configuration based on the company's specific need. That need was not the company's
Matthew Portnoy
#62. There is always something to worry about. Avoid weekend thinking and ignoring the latest dire predictions of the newscasters. Sell a stock because the company's fundamentals deteriorate, not because the sky is falling.
Peter Lynch
#63. Apple CEO Steve Jobs used to talk about a phenomenon called a "bozo explosion," by which a company's mediocre early hires rise up through the ranks and end up running departments. The bozos now must hire other people, and of course they prefer to hire bozos.
Dan Lyons
#64. The speed at which a business success is recognized, furthermore, is not that important as long as the company's intrinsic value is increasing at a satisfactory rate. In fact, delayed recognition can be an advantage: It may give us the chance to buy more of a good thing at a bargain price.
Warren Buffett
#65. where creativity doesn't drive a company's strategic vision, most often the lowest price will be the winning formula. Success, abundance, a rising standard of living-for individuals, companies, communities, nations-will depend on a capacity to create, invent, and innovate.
Peter Georgescu
#66. There is never a time in a company's history when cost control can be relegated to the back burner, but for a startup company, keeping costs low is a vital necessity.
Felix Dennis
#67. In many ways I think the company's doing quite a good job. If you look at the transition to Office 365 we started when I was there, I'm excited about that and I think the company's doing a great job on that.
Steve Ballmer
#68. I have zero tolerance for people who don't come completely prepared. I expect contribution, I expect attendance, and I expect directors to take trips and visit the company's programs.
Anne M. Mulcahy
#69. If your actions don't reflect your goals ... and your behavior doesn't reflect your company's vision ... then you're not a leader; regardless of what your title indicates.
Steve Maraboli
#70. Good leadership is about the company's success, not your own.
Anne M. Mulcahy
#71. Your company's most valuable asset is how it is known to its customers.
Brian Tracy
#72. John W. Snow was paid more than $50 million in salary, bonus and stock in his nearly 12 years as chairman of the CSX Corporation, the railroad company. During that period, the company's profits fell, and its stock rose a bit more than half as much as that of the average big company.
Alex Berenson
#73. What flavor, though? Chinese? Indian? I'm not even convinced it's offshore. Maybe it starts here, goes out, comes back in." "I wouldn't know about that. Company's Colombian." "Columbia S.C., for all I know,
William Gibson
#74. I'm the new age miner,
going to work at the company's
gold mines, where they charge me
for the pick axe
Phil Volatile
#76. Unions inherently create an 'us versus them' dynamic that makes winning against a company's management the top goal, not serving customers, innovating, or in the case of education, teaching kids.
Sarah Lacy
#77. The dearth of business activity on the traditional day of rest makes Sunday an ideal time to declare insolvency. Bankruptcy petitions are time-stamped to the minute, instantly dividing a failed company's dealings into pre-bankruptcy transactions and post-bankruptcy transactions.
Brendan I. Koerner
#78. avoid the common business pitfall of making business decisions based on the company's skill set rather than on the customers' needs and desires.
Jeofrey Bean
#79. The Apple iPad is not going to be the company's next runaway best seller. Not if the industry can help it ... with the iPad, Apple may have irked its somewhat new partner Intel Corp. Intel gets spanked by nobody.
John C. Dvorak
#80. Anyone who prefers owning part of your company to being paid in cash reveals a preference for the long term and a commitment to increasing your company's value in the future.
Peter Thiel
#81. One IT executive in an investment banking company claimed that 80 percent of his company's programming code was dedicated to linking disparate systems, as opposed to creating new capabilities.
Jeanne W. Ross
#82. Siebel's business development executive admitted that all of the company's acquisitions have failed and noted that an internal study indicated that "cultural conflicts" were the cause in every case.5
Jeffrey Pfeffer
#83. So ensuring the integrity of the data and integrity and validity of the connection is a very important element in any company's strategy that is moving towards a Web service paradigm.
John W. Thompson
#84. they sought to revitalize a nineteenth-century style of employment relations in which workers were considered liabilities rather than assets. It was a style in which a company's success was in opposition to workers' welfare rather than dependent on it.
Erin Hatton
#85. I knew my successor would be better than me for the next stage of the company's life. And it was a relief - I'd been doing it for 30 years. My only worry was what the hell I was going to do with my time.
Peter Hargreaves
#86. Ford Motor Company's sluggish and piecemeal approach to its automotive responsibilities betrays motorists' safety.
Ralph Nader
#87. Brand handling synergy means developing and communicating your company's values and identity consistently.
Martin Lindstrom
#88. Over the very long term, history shows that the chances of any business surviving in a manner agreeable to a company's owners are slim at best.
Charlie Munger
#89. SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company's lifespan will have tripled. If we have linear improvement in technology, as opposed to logarithmic, then we should have a significant base on Mars, perhaps with thousands or tens of thousands of people.
Elon Musk
#90. Thus did Jeff Bezos become one of the original investors in Google, his company's future rival,
Brad Stone
#91. The only reason you will get hired is because the person hiring you believes you can help them solve their problem. Stop thinking you're "filling an opening;" you're not. You're actually solving a company's problem, and by solving their problem, they will solve yours.
Mayowa O Ajisafe
#92. In terms of companies, they must stand for something bigger. They must be dedicated to something larger than financial results. I reject the Milton Friedman belief that a company's sole responsibility is to the shareholders.
Srikumar Rao
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. Make your team feel respected, empowered and genuinely excited about the company's mission.
Tim Westergren
#96. In the short term, the stock market is a voting machine. In the long run, it's a weighing machine" that measures a company's true value.
Brad Stone
#97. I vote you fire him and then kick his ass so your liability is reduced to only your personal assets versus the company's.
Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
#98. The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy.
Daniel Goleman
#99. When the head of the Hyundai Motor Company, Chung Mong-koo, was fighting with his younger brother Chung Mong-hun over the company's management, he is said to have consulted a fortune-teller.
Kim Young-ha
#100. Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's hardware section will tell you the problem is.
Dave Barry
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