Top 100 Quotes About A Company
#1. Whenever I call a company and get put on hold, I never really feel like I'm being held.
Randy Glasbergen
#2. Every time you start a company - and I've started five or six - you have the opportunity to screw up in whole new ways.
Evan Williams
#3. Our A Company landed at 9:03 with 250 officers and men. By 2:00 o'clock that afternoon, we were down to 75.
Gail Chatfield
#4. When you have a company name that is to descriptive about what you do, you don't stand out.
Philip J. Kaplan
#5. Investments - particularly those that involve the change of control of a company - only work when they work well for all parties involved.
Dan Quayle
#6. If you have a chance of working for a healthy company or a sick one, choose the sick one. The sickest ones need the best doctors and it's a lot easier to stand out in a company that needs help.
Greg Brenneman
#7. The hardest thing about starting a company and running a company is, there's just so many expectations on you, and there are so many people who have things that they want you to do. It's a lot like life about that.
Ben Horowitz
#8. My first writing job was with a company called TheatreworksUSA.
Robert Lopez
#9. When I was 24, I co-founded a company called Athenahealth which built the first Web-based software and back-office service suite for doctors' offices.
Todd Park
#10. I can pretty much call anyone, whether at the White House, in a company or in the media. I have access, because of the silliness of the entertainment world and how people react to it. It gave me an enormous opportunity to do anything I really want to.
Andrew Shue
#11. There's only one thing that regularly keeps me up at night. Working with the greatest people in the world and knowing that they are counting on me to build a company that endures - a company where they can grow professionally. A company where they can build world-class products and be proud to work.
David Ulevitch
#12. Profit for a company is like oxygen for a person. If you don't have enough of it, you're out of the game. But if you think your life is about breathing, you're really missing something.
Peter Drucker
#13. We have done some of these in Bangladesh. Whenever I see a problem, I immediately go and create a company. That's what I did all my life.
Muhammad Yunus
#14. The company I invested in is probably a leader in that area. They're a company called Second Spectrum, which happens to be based in LA but was started by two USC computer-science professors. It's filled with guys who love sports, who played sports, but really look like programmers.
Steve Ballmer
#15. A diplomatic mission, like a company, is comprised of multiple departments, all of which must be relied upon to move business forward.
James Costos
#16. The promoted tweet is a real tweet that a company may have sent out that they want more distribution for. They will buy key words for it. If people are looking for something related, it will show up.
Evan Williams
#17. I just think that it's maybe fashionable today to try to take individual actions and individual failures and take the broadest possible brush and try to paint a company.
Lee Scott
#18. Schools while their dads are on company assignments, and then have to catch up with their Japanese grade level when their dads get transferred back. Only my dad wasn't on a company assignment, and he wasn't getting transferred
Ruth Ozeki
#19. I studied to be an architect. And I find tremendous similarities between building a company and the design process. Businesses have to do their planning on the fly in a fashion similar to an architect sketching.
John Katzman
#20. I have a company in the U.K., a performance-capture studio. We're looking to push the boundaries of performance-capture technology in film and video games, but also in live theater, using real-time performance capture with actors onstage, and combining that with holographic imagery.
Andy Serkis
#21. I've started a company, called Tall Girl Productions, and we've got our first project that is purely producing, not writing, with a writer named Evan Daugherty. It's for NBC, it's called 'Afterthought,' and it's science fiction-ish. That's fun.
Melissa Rosenberg
#22. Innovation is the fuel for growth. When a company runs out of innovation, it runs out of growth.
Gary Hamel
#23. If you've got a company that has a mentality inside that is filled with searching for a better idea every day, not just as a slogan but as a real concept, you will have innovation around you all the time.
Jack Welch
#24. The social network will be the new production line in a company,
Ginni Rometty
#25. A company invites their employees to sign up for a plan where every time they get a raise, some part of that raise goes to increasing their contribution rate to the 401k plan. In the first company we convinced to adopt this plan, saving rates tripled.
Richard Thaler
#26. I suspect that we might actually start selling some records with these artists in about 10 years. Some the people who invested, they're a little tight-because it's a lot of money to start up a company.
Branford Marsalis
#27. To capture the enemy's entire army is better than to destroy it; to take intact a regiment, a company, or a squad is better than to destroy them. For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the supreme of excellence. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the supreme excellence.
Sun Tzu
#28. When you're running a company, creating jobs is the last thing you want to. When you're running a company you want to employ as few people as possible, and yet you inadvertently create jobs.
Robert Metcalfe
#29. I prefer to invest in a company that's going after a small but rapidly growing market than a big but slow growing one.
Sam Altman
#30. What made me this way was watching my father go through bad employment experiences. When I was 17, and he was 65, I saw him go through the experiences working for a boss that was rude and obnoxious. I swore if I was ever had the capacity to run a company that I would do it in a different way.
Tom Golisano
#31. The challenge is not just to build a company that can endure; but to build one that is worthy of enduring.
James C. Collins
#32. You know what they say, Two pairs a company, cheese a croud
Annoying Orange
#33. No, you're going in vain," she mentally addressed a company in a coach-and-four who were evidently going out of town for some merriment. "And the dog you're taking with you won't help you. You won't get away from yourselves.
Leo Tolstoy
#34. For us, we are moving a company that has been around for 137 years to the next level so that we can be there for the next 137 years.
Hans Vestberg
#35. A Company should be viewed as an unfolding movie, not as a still photograph
Warren Buffett
#36. Collider is a company that I formed with a movie producer, Alisa Tager, and we just wanted to create a place where writers could come and develop their ideas without a regard to limitations of form.
Marc Guggenheim
#37. Well, you know, News Corp is the only real media global - that has a global presence that's involved in TV production, in movies, in publishing, in newspapers, digital media, et cetera. So for a company like that to function, clearly it does not depend only on Rupert Murdoch or James Murdoch.
Al-Waleed Bin Talal
#38. The hi-tech industry is not a monolithic thing. If you look on a timeline of a company, you see that in the beginning, you have to come up with an idea and to be willing to take risk. You have to grow fast, you have to think fast, and you have to do this usually in small teams.
Yossi Vardi
#39. A company that insures cellphones and other tech devices is expected to announce plans to open a service call center in Las Vegas that would provide up to 800 jobs within five years.
Anonymous
#40. I discovered that the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize a company. The whole notion of how you build a company is fascinating. Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
#41. A company's best advantage should be a quality product offered at the right price. That fair competition is what drives innovation.
Chellie Pingree
#42. Almost any mistake you can make in running a company, I've probably made
Mark Zuckerberg
#43. Watching a company develop is like watching a puppy grow. When you can watch something grow that you created - it's really an amazing feeling.
Brody Jenner
#44. Never work for a company that says people are its most important asset. If you wanted to get a mortgage and you said that your only asset was people you would end up living in a tent.
Guy Browning
#45. I would never suggest anyone to stay at a company more than six or seven years. We grow as individuals and the world is moving so fast. Typically, I'll always sell a piece of each of my companies along the way.
J. Christopher Burch
#46. Offer someone the opportunity to rebuild a company or reinvent an industry as the primary incentive, and it will attract those drawn to the challenge first and the money second.
Simon Sinek
#47. I think in general, people who aren't themselves entrepreneurs are often more risk averse. And I think you see this dynamic a lot with entrepreneurial people who lead a company, which is that they hire people who complement them.
Leila Janah
#48. 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
#49. It's fantastic to be known as a company that responds quickly to users, shares great resources and friendly banter with them over Twitter, and forges relationships on Pinterest, Facebook, and every other social media site out there.
Kathryn Minshew
#50. When you found a company, you have the original vision, you make all the original decisions, you know every employee, you kind of know every aspect of the product architecture and its limitations.
Ben Horowitz
#51. Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor of the store or the factory is insignificant.
James Sinegal
#52. For 'Power of 10,' you can look at the methodology at CBS, it's a company called Rasmussen Reports. We poll thousands and thousands of people for each question, a real cross section of the United States.
Drew Carey
#53. I believe that in any initiative, you can't have a flavor of the month. When you believe something is profound in a company, you can not be a logical leader. You have to go to the lunatic fringe. There is no way that logic is what you need to change people.
Jack Welch
#54. I begin by looking for megatrends, changes in the world that will create major new demands. My goal is to create a company that can be there to meet those demands.
Rodney Brooks
#55. Behind every stock is a company. Find out what it's doing.
Peter Lynch
#56. 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
#58. 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
#59. It is a company's customers who effectively control what it can and cannot do.
Clayton Christensen
#60. 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
#61. We pretty much won't fund a company now where the founders don't have vested equity because it's just that hard to do.
Sam Altman
#62. When a company goes bankrupt, you as a company have absolutely no say whatsoever as to what happens.
Thomas G. Stemberg
#63. 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
#64. Designers need to be more than ambassadors, they need to be fully functioning and fully aware members of strategic decision-making teams in a company.
Nathan Shedroff
#65. When you start a company, it's a singular focus. You have the wind at your back.
Howard Schultz
#66. In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?'
No,'" I answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes.
Stephen E. Ambrose
#67. I have a deal with a company that's going to do cards without the gum. I don't like sugarless gum, and I don't think it's much better for you.
Paul Reubens
#68. You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.
Steve Ross
#69. One of the nice things about being a private company is operating without the intensity of public glare. It's hard to grow a company under a microscope of constant second guessing.
Sarah Lacy
#70. Instead of being a teacher, I got a job with a company called Bain & Co., consulting firm, and they taught me how to build businesses.
Stephen Pagliuca
#71. We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want.
Adam Jones
#72. Industry is far more efficient than the university in making use of scientific developments for the public good.
Reported in 1981, as a co-founder of Genentech, Inc., a company to offer gene-splicing products.
Herbert Boyer
#73. What's the point in having a company of secretaries?
Bob Geldof
#74. Standing safely on the opposite bank with her dry maid, her dry escort, and a company of streaming horsemen, Philippa said scathingly, 'That's men for you. Cover the lady's retreat, the book says. A hundred years ago, maybe. And what stopped you from coming with me just now? I can swim, you know.
Dorothy Dunnett
#75. I think you're defined as a company by what you choose to do and what you choose not to do.
Mark Pincus
#76. A company can seize extra-ordinary opportunities only if it is very good at the ordinary operations.
Marcel Herrmann Telles
#77. That just seems like a tough thing to do ... just work in the middle of a company for your entire life. You just do the same thing out of college until you're 60, and then you retire.
Luke Wilson
#78. 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
#79. When I was younger and first started thinking about my future, I decided to either become a professor or start a company.
Anonymous
#80. If you're prepared to invest in a company, then you ought to be able to explain why in simple language that a fifth grader could understand, and quickly enough so the fifth grader won't get bored.
Peter Lynch
#81. Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
Nathan Myhrvold
#82. What does the name Virgin mean? We are a company that likes to take on the giants. In too many businesses, these giants have had things their own way. We are going to have fun competing with them.
Richard Branson
#83. A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.
Bill Gates
#84. 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
#85. There's a tendency to make jazzy educational software that's very uniform and therefore just like school. I'd like to see a company develop software for rebellious kids who don't want to go to school.
Seymour Papert
#86. In the beginning of a company, there is no management and this actually works really well.
Sam Altman
#87. My advice to fledgling entrepreneurs is always the same: build a company that you plan to be with for the next 10 years - that is the best way to increase your chances of success.
Vivek Wadhwa
#88. No financial man will ever understand business because financial people think a company makes money. A company makes shoes, and no financial man understands that. They think money is real. Shoes are real.
Peter Drucker
#89. I am not a retailer - I have never run a store; I have never understood the full details of how you can make a consumer satisfied. To build a company, to do deals, to motivate people: this is what I am able to do.
Stefano Pessina
#90. 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
#91. Building a company is basically taking all the irrational people you know ... Putting them in one building and then living with them 12 hrs a day at least.
Keith Rabois
#92. The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5.
Mark Zuckerberg
#93. One of the challenges associated with a company becoming large is that companies become hierarchical. They become bureaucratic. They become slow. They become risk averse.
Kenneth C. Frazier
#94. Don't start a company unless it's an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it's not an obsession.
Mark Cuban
#95. Keep asking yourself, 'What kind of a company would my company be if everyone in it was just like me?'
Brian Tracy
#96. 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
#97. We have a company, Geometric Software, which is into engineering services software. We have a company called Nature's Basket, which is into gourmet retailing. Both are specialized companies.
Adi Godrej
#98. I'm 40 now, but I want this to be a company that lives way beyond me, and I believe that customers are more important to making that happen than press. When I'm dead, hopefully this house will still be going. On a spaceship. Hopping up and down above earth.
Alexander McQueen
#99. When I first got into making makeup, I didn't necessarily want to start a company. I just wanted to make a lipstick that looked like lips, only better.
Bobbi Brown
#100. Jesus is not a candle. A company in South Dakota is selling candles with the scent of Jesus. You light one and your friends says, Christ, what's that smell?
Bill Maher
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