Top 100 Great Company Quotes
#1. I've always found a way to make my way, and now I've had the fortune of being hired by a great company - Chrysler Corporation - one of the original Big Three.
Joe Wurzelbacher
#2. Enduring great companies don't exist merely to deliver returns to shareholders. Indeed, in a truly great company, profits and cash flow become like blood and water to a healthy body: They are absolutely essential for life, but they are not the very point of life.
James C. Collins
#3. Building a great company that can build great products over and over and over is the hardest of all.
Anonymous
#4. To make HP a great company once again, we need more than competitive costs and operational efficiency. We're in the process of assessing and refining our growth strategy, and the same concepts that were behind our operational changes will be at work here: simplicity, focus, alignment, and execution.
Bill Vaughan
#5. Honour to the immortal dead, that great ... company of shining souls who gave their youth that the world might grow old in peace.
- Louise N. Parter
Joseph C. Banks
#6. Essentially, you have to be aware of a crisis happening: 'Can the company go on if I get hit by a bus?' That's, I think, how you build a great company and something that can scale.
Osman Rashid
#7. I built a great company, one of the - some of the most iconic assets in the world, $10 billion of net worth, more than $10 billion of net worth, and frankly, I had a great time doing it.
Donald Trump
#8. Facebook, Google, Apple, Yahoo - there's a common theme. None of these companies ever sold. By staying independent, they were able to build a great company.
Jan Koum
#9. Ed Catmull has thought a lot about the role luck plays at a great company, and how businesspeople manage that luck. It's all in the preparedness, he says, and in creating a culture that can adapt to the unexpected. "These things are always going to happen. What separates you is your response,
Brent Schlender
#10. To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
Carly Fiorina
#11. Focusing on the long term and building a great product that is scalable ultimately leads to a great company.
Craig Sherman
#12. Indeed, if there is any one "secret" to an enduring great company, it is the ability to manage continuity and change - a discipline that must be consciously practiced, even by the most visionary of companies.
James C. Collins
#13. It's like athletes: To be a great company you need great competitors ... It's what keeps you alive and keeps you honest.
Craig R. Barrett
#14. TNT is a really great company to do a show for. They really believe in their shows and give shows a lot of support. They have it all worked out before you start shooting. Everybody's on the same page.
Timothy Hutton
#15. If you want to grow, find a good opportunity. Today, if you want to be a great company, think about what social problem you could solve.
Jack Ma
#16. A good company offers excellent products and services. A great company also offers excellent products and services but also strives to make the world a better place.
Philip Kotler
#17. Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people.
James C. Collins
#18. A great company is not a great investment if you pay too much for the stock.
Benjamin Graham
#19. Given a choice between great food and boring company or boring food and great company, I'll take the great company any day.
Ruth Reichl
#20. Years and years ago, I did a game based on 'Hitchhiker's Guide' with a company called Infocom, which was a great company. They were doing witty, intelligent, literate games based on text.
Douglas Adams
#21. I am confident that partnering my Dollywood Company with a great company like Gaylord will create something truly special.
Dolly Parton
#22. She's great company; she plays a mean hand of gin; and I like holding her hand almost as much as yours. What more do I need?
Libby Fischer Hellmann
#23. I think Google is a great company, and they're doing really cool things. But they're not doing things that are going to put us, I think, into the next generation of technology.
Sandra Lerner
#24. I've never invested in any airline. I'm an airline manager. I don't invest in airlines. And I always said to the employees of American, 'This is not an appropriate investment. It's a great place to work and it's a great company that does important work. But airlines are not an investment.'
Robert Crandall
#25. I do sometimes watch 'Dr. Who' and while the stories barely make sense, if at all, the doctor is such great company I don't care.
John Shirley
#26. If you are doing the right thing for the earth, she's giving you great company.
Vandana Shiva
#27. Level 5 leaders channel their ego needs away from themselves and into the larger goal of building a great company. It's not that Level 5 leaders have no ego or self-interest. Indeed, they are incredibly ambitious-but their ambition is first and foremost for the institution, not themselves.
James C. Collins
#28. As the company grows and about this 25 or so employee size, your main job shifts from building a great product to building a great company.
Sam Altman
#29. I am very proud to be featured, especially when you consider the outstanding champions who have had this honor. It is great company to be in.
Julius Erving
#30. As a founder, your first job is to get the first things right, because you cannot build a great company on a flawed foundation.
Peter Thiel
#31. Forget luxury; as a great company you have to keep evolving.
Angela Ahrendts
#32. Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.
Ben Horowitz
#33. I have a great, great company. I employ thousands of people. And I'm very proud of the job I did.
Donald Trump
#34. A great company in the media business needs visionary leaders, not a conglomerate structure headquartered in Columbus Circle that second guesses.
Carl Icahn
#35. These guys sit in the Senate - even though he misses most of the votes, by the way - but he sits in the Senate and listens to this stuff all the time.I'm out working, producing jobs all over the place and building a great company.
Donald Trump
#36. I don't know anything about directing, but if you love actors, know your story and hire a great company, then anyone can direct a film.
Peter Hedges
#37. We're building a great company, and we're very excited about the future of the company.
Jim Barksdale
#38. I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.
Jack Ma
#39. We're enamored with the concept that there's always a price. But sometimes, your goal is to build a great company, not sell it.
Aaron Levie
#40. A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.
James C. Collins
#41. Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
Ben Horowitz
#42. If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley.
Bill Gates
#43. Every great company, brand, career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little.
Seth Godin
#44. All over the world, I do business. I make great deals. I've made hundreds of millions of dollars against China. All over the world I make money and I build great things. Who's going to build a wall like me on the southern border? I built a great company.
Donald Trump
#45. There's a final exam in venture every four to six years. The scary thing is you need to get an 'A' in every discipline. You need to be on generational planning, need to be on great deal flow, need be on great outcomes, you need to be on great company building.
David Sze
#47. In other words, I realized that for IBM to become a great company it would have to act like a great company long before it ever became one.
Tom Watson
#48. To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader.
Howard Schultz
#49. EBay is a great company. There are a lot of good assets and good customers, and the U.S. people love it.
Jack Ma
#50. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours ... never doubt the excellence and permanence of what is yet to be. Join the great company of those who make the barren places of life fruitful with kindness.
Helen Keller
#51. The best entrepreneurs know this: every great business is built around a secret that's hidden from the outside. A great company is a conspiracy to change the world; when you share your secret, the recipient becomes a fellow conspirator.
Peter Thiel
#52. One of our first customers asked me how big we want to be. I said I want to be really big. Later, it bothered me that I answered that way. Now I say I just want to be a great company.
Kevin Plank
#53. No sector will ever be so important that merely participating in it will be enough to build a great company.
Peter Thiel
#54. I like cats a lot. I've always liked cats. They're great company. When they eat, they always leave a little bit at the bottom of the bowl. A dog will polish the bowl, but a cat always leaves a little bit. It's like an offering.
Christopher Walken
#55. The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble ... We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.
Warren Buffett
#56. With Twitter and other social networking tools, you can get a lot of advice from great people. I learn more from Twitter than any survey or discussion with a big company.
Daniel Ek
#57. There are tons of great names who have gotten fourth at their first Olympics, and they just kept with it for the next quad. I'm among good company.
Gracie Gold
#58. Obviously I've got a great team of people within the company. You can't operate all by yourself. We have a good board of directors and a big bench, and they can make decisions if I'm not around.
Roger Penske
#59. I started a production company out of necessity, the need for great narratives for actors of color.
Viola Davis
#60. We tried to set up a company that patterned ourselves after Southwest in all the fun, the spirit, the great people, the smile, the efficiency side of it, but we've added some extras that people aren't used to finding on Southwest.
David Neeleman
#61. 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
#62. Great companies don't throw money at problems, they throw ideas at problems.
Greg McAdoo
#63. The successful companies try to keep the new entrants down. Now that's great for a company like ours. We make more money that way because we have less competition and less innovation. But for the country as a whole, it's horrible.
Charles Koch
#64. I've always liked the fact that anyone with a great idea, access to the Internet, and an unrelenting will can spark a world-beating company simply by standing up code on the Internet and/or leveraging the information and relationship network that is the web. That's how Facebook started, after all.
John Battelle
#65. Every great dance company, even when it seems poised in perfect balance, needs constant renewal of both repertory and performers.
Robert Gottlieb
#66. We started the company out of frustration with the employer that we had because we were building great stuff and there was no way that this stuff was ever going to get into the hands of the people who could use it.
John Warnock
#67. Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter.
Mason Cooley
#68. Great men taken up in any way are profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man without gaining something by him.
Thomas Carlyle
#69. People like Justin Frankel and Daniel Sheldon linger on the fringe until they dream up something that has great commercial potential. Then some big company swoops in and buys them, or they give birth to the big company themselves.
Michael Lewis
#70. This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all.
Richard Cobden
#71. Anybody can build a company and sell the company the next day. That doesn't make you special, it doesn't make you unique, it doesn't make you all that great.
Jan Koum
#72. 'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
B.B. King
#73. My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.
John Cusack
#74. 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
#75. I built a tremendous company and all I want to do is make America great again.
Donald Trump
#76. The King's son, who was told that a great princess, whom nobody knew, was come, ran out to receive her. He gave her his hand as she alighted from the coach, and led her into the hall where the company were assembled.
Charles Perrault
#77. Surprisingly, it was not an American but a British company that opened an amusement park in 2007 called Dickens World, located in the English county of Kent, complete with an Ebenezer Scrooge Haunted House, a Great Expectations Boat Ride and the as-advertised 'costumed Dickensian characters.'
Matthew Pearl
#78. Great leadership does not mean running away from reality. Sometimes the hard truths might just demoralize the company, but at other times sharing difficulties can inspire people to take action that will make the situation better.
John P. Kotter
#79. Why can't it be awesome to work for a food company? Why can't we create an environment where people are trying to push each other to do great things, and we're not trying to steal from anybody - we're trying to be good to our farmers and run an honorable business, if there is such a thing anymore?
David Chang
#80. - As the poet Hebbel noted, "Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion." Executives know their development teams need to be passionate about their projects; otherwise, the projects and the company will remain mediocre.
Anonymous
#81. To have the universe bear one company, would be a great consolation in death.
Publilius Syrus
#82. When I'm traveling on tour, one of my favorite things to do is to throw a baseball cap on and go to a Target. The company has always been good to me. They've got such a great creative team.
Christina Aguilera
#83. I have great expectations for our company; pretzels were just the beginning.
Nell Newman
#84. In order to build a great technology company, you have to hire lots of incredibly smart people. It's a total waste to have lots of big brains but not let them work on your biggest problems.
Ben Horowitz
#85. Here is a dirty little secret: Stock-picking is wildly overrated. Sure, it makes for great cocktail party chatter, and what is more fun than delving into a company's new products? But the truth is that individual stocks are riskier than broad indices.
Barry Ritholtz
#86. A very good senior programmer (who might get paid $200,000) gets paid about the same as a great programmer, who delivers $5 million worth of value for the same price. That's enough of a difference to build an entire company's profit around. Do it with ten programmers and you're rich.
Seth Godin
#87. The effect of reading literary non-fiction that matters most to me is when the coin drops, and this happens in the company of the great, mercuric, encyclopedic minds: Empson, Kenneth Burke, Northrop Frye.
Paul Fry
#88. I have great respect for Jaypee Greens as a company that has produced a truly world class, 24-carat, championship golf course. I am happy to be associated with a company with such outstanding qualities.
Kapil Dev
#89. The main point is first get the right people on the bus (and wrong people off the bus) before you figure out where to drive it. The second key point is the degree of sheer rigor in people decisions in order to take a company from Good to Great.
James C. Collins
#90. It's difficult for a company to be anywhere interesting in a world that is so dominated by prototypes and great and bright ideas.
Marcel Wanders
#91. 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
#92. The root of great companies is make meaning vs. make money.
Guy Kawasaki
#93. Create the kind of workplace and company culture that will attract great talent. If you hire brilliant people, they will make work feel more like play.
Richard Branson
#94. You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems.
Walt Disney Company
#96. The great correspondent of the seventeenth century Madame de Sevigne counseled, "Take chocolate in order that even the most tireome company seem acceptable to you," which is also sound advice today!
Barrie Kerper
#98. I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
Henry David Thoreau
#99. We come into this world alone. You're going to die alone. That's the way it is.
I think a really great interpretation of love is: feeling alone with someone else.
The times in my life, if you want to qualify as "being in love", when you feel almost like being alone with company.
Chris Evans
#100. Everything I have is a private company. And even though a public company's a great thing, it's great for financing and all of the stuff you need to do. I'm not answering to anybody but my wife and my children and the people who work for me, and my partners.
Henry Blodget
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