Top 83 Quotes About Running A Company

#1. Running a successful company is all about embracing the talent of the individuals you have at your disposal. if that's where your talents and your interests lie, then you structure the company to enable that ... Christian Grey

E.L. James

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#2. 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

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#3. I try to get people to see what I have ... When you run a computer company, you have to get people to buy into your dreams.

Steve Jobs

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#4. I'm not real good at the administrative part of running a company.

Jimmy Wales

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#5. As difficult as it is to build a team, it is not complicated. In fact, keeping it simple is critical, whether you run the executive staff at a multi-national company, a small department within a larger organization, or even if you are merely a member of a team that needs improvement.

Patrick Lencioni

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#6. The company should be run from a creative point of view rather than a financial point of view.

Michael Eisner

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#7. The final test of greatness in a CEO is how well he chooses a successor and whether he can step aside and let the successor run the company.

Peter Drucker

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#8. A Scotch half-breed took charge of him and his mates, and in company with a dozen other dog-teams he started back over the weary trail to Dawson. It was no light running now, nor record time, but heavy toil each day, with a heavy load behind; for this was the mail train,

Jack London

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#9. Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it's guaranteed the easiest and most fun way to quickly set up a fundraising campaign and send it around to your friends and family.

Edward Norton

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#10. As a first time director it's interesting, but not all that different from what I did before. A lot of parts of this job seem to be very similar to running a big company.

Timothy Miller

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#11. Private companies have a lot of capital. They can run things efficiently and get projects built.

Steve Martin

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#12. Playing the lead in a film where you shoot for three months away from home is not an easy thing for me when my children are in school and my husband is running a theatre company.

Cate Blanchett

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#13. To Wall Street, a firm like BP isn't just a profitable energy company with lots of assets like oil rigs and pipelines and gas stations - it's also a corporation that routinely borrows hundreds of millions of dollars to keep its business up and running.

Matt Taibbi

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#14. 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

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#15. Having a higher purpose is more than just about profits. You actually end up making more profits in the long run because employees really are a lot more engaged and customers see the higher purpose in the company.

Tony Hsieh

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#16. I'm not running a cat repair company

Fredrik Backman

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#17. In 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the cost of a customer running a basic Internet application was approximately $150,000 a month.

Marc Andreessen

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#18. If you can run the company a bit more collaboratively, you get a better result, because you have more bandwidth and checking and balancing going on.

Larry Page

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#19. Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make.

Dick Wolf

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#20. Tomorrow always arrives. It is always different. And even the mightiest company is in trouble if it has not worked on the future. Being surprised by what happens is a risk that even the largest and richest company cannot afford, and even the smallest business need not run.

Peter Drucker

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#21. 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

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#22. The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.

Marc Andreesen

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#23. I made so many mistakes in running the company so far, basically any mistake you can think of I probably made. I think, if anything, the Facebook story is a great example of how if you're building a product that people love you can make a lot of mistakes

Mark Zuckerberg

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#24. There is a continuum that runs from character to productivity. Who you are and what you believe make a difference to those who look to you for leadership. The values you live will reach the bottom line of your company.

Walter Wright

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#25. 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

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#26. 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

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#27. If tomorrow all of America were to become paternalistic, we would beat the Japanese every day of the week. I think that the concept of accusing someone of running a paternalistic company, that's not an accusation. One should compliment someone on that.

Leonard Lauder

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#28. My first job in L.A. was actually playing an employee in a Best Buy commercial, but I played a bad employee at another store. I also worked at a commercial casting company running cameras and session directing.

Timothy Simons

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#29. Most of my company is run by women. There's a certain sensitivity to what I want to express, so that's what I want around me.

Pharrell Williams

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#30. Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear-view mirror.

Anita Roddick

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#31. Show me a chief executive who's on five boards and who lends his or her name, prestige and time to 15 community activities - and I'll show you a company that's underperforming. A chief executive is paid to run the company. That's the CEO's job.

Albert J. Dunlap

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#32. I'm a chairman on the Board of Governors for the East-West Players, the longest-running Asian-American theater company in America.

George Takei

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#33. 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

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#34. I do believe that banks are special - they are very leveraged institutions by nature; therefore, it's even more critical to ensure that the governance and the process of running a banking company are well-organised, managed and regulated.

Uday Kotak

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#35. No. 1 thing is that life is just not as interrupt-driven as when you're running a company.

Steve Ballmer

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#36. I learnt earlier on that If you can run one company.You can really run any company.A company is all about finding the right people and inspiring those people,drawing out the best in people

Richard Branson

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#37. A lot of stuff happens daily when you're running a company like Subway. If you get too happy about some things or too unhappy about others, you get worn out. It's best if you can pace yourself a little bit more.

Fred DeLuca

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#38. If you had told me when I was at high school that one day I would be working for a for-profit company, let alone running one, I would have said you were crazy. But I am interested in how you can empower individuals to make change, and Causes is doing just that.

Joe Green

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#39. I've been a professional athlete, I've directed films, I've run a company with 150 employees, and nothing compares to writing a screenplay. Just the second I think I know what I'm doing, the rug gets pulled out and I have no idea what I'm doing. Because there are so many problems to solve.

Stacy Peralta

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#40. I'm not sure I was a typical head of a company. Most people that run big companies come out of sales and they come out of marketing and they're quite serious and they have MBA's from very good schools and things like that. I'm an accidental CEO, thank the Disney Company.

Michael Eisner

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#41. Women are leaders everywhere you look - from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes.

Nancy Pelosi

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#42. There is an increasing gap between academic research and business application. Sometimes the incentives for success in the academic world are not consistent with what it takes to run a company.

Dave Ulrich

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#43. Peaceful in the knowledge that a long and happy relationship negates the need for constant chatter. Zoya and I had long perfected the art of sitting silently in each other's company for hours on end, while never running out of things to say.

John Boyne

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#44. At 88 years old - with every intention of living decades longer - I'm still running a company, writing articles, launching new ventures, and fully enjoying life.

David H. Murdock

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#45. A lot of productivity is capturing ideas. I use a wiki - it's more valuable than e-mail for running a company - and I have a page for every person with whom I interact frequently.

Garrett Camp

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#46. Like isolated apartment dwellers running the TV for company, we sense a deeper isolation beneath the babble of voices, the poverty of our communications.

Mark Slouka

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#47. If I were a CEO of a company and ran it like God runs the universe, I'd be fired.

Sherwin Wine

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#48. Build a company that idiots could run because eventually they will.

Keith Rabois

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#49. If the person who runs a company has a belief system and everything he does stays fairly truly to that system, it will attract like-minded people who buy into it and then keeps selling itself in concentric circles.

Donny Deutsch

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#50. 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

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#51. 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

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#52. 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

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#53. Innovation is the fuel for growth. When a company runs out of innovation, it runs out of growth.

Gary Hamel

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#54. 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

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#55. Almost any mistake you can make in running a company, I've probably made

Mark Zuckerberg

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#56. To understand Cerutty you have to see him as a multifaceted personality. He could be both charming and very abusive. He was extremely amusing and darn good company providing you weren't quarrelling with him.

John Landy

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#57. 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

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#58. You read these management books that say, 'These are the hard things about running a company.' But those aren't really the hard things. The hard things are when you have to layoff half your company, or you have to fire your best friend. Or you have to figure out a way not to go bankrupt.

Ben Horowitz

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#59. I'm not running a Fortune 500 company here. I'm not a bank controller. I run a gym. You have to expect a certain amount of sex. We're dealing with bodies, and trainers are very into being beautiful, so you're going to have people who are attracted to each other.

Jackie Warner

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#60. The 2 hardest things you'll have to do when running a company are recruiting and talking people out of leaving.

Marc Andreessen

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#61. I always say that in investing you want to buy stock in a company that has a business that's so good that an idiot can run it, because sooner or later one will. We have a country like that.

Warren Buffett

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#62. I learned that focus is key. Not just in your running a company, but in your personal life as well.

Tim Cook

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#63. Rich dad explained to me that the hardest part of running a company is managing people.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

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#64. Any business owner or entrepreneur knows that there is no luck or good fortune about keeping a company up and running. It's nothing but hard work, consistency, determination, courage, staying focused, accepting failure, making changes, and simply keeping on with the grind.

Enaka Yembe

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#65. By late-2000 Wal-Mart's losses were running in excess of £150 million a year in Germany from its 95 stores, and the company was ranked bottom of all retailers in Germany in an annual customer satisfaction survey.

Nigel F. Piercy

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#66. Everyone wants to call wrestling 'the business.' Why don't you treat it like a business? I don't care if you're running a diner, if you're running a car wash or a wrestling company. It's all business.

Kevin Nash

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#67. I would have been fired a hundred times at a company run by M.B.A.'s. But I never went into business to make money. I went into business so that I could do interesting things that hadn't been done before.

Amar Bose

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#68. The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect.

Uell Stanley Andersen

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#69. I don't think I'd enjoy running a public company. We haven't needed to go to the market to fund expansion.

Martin Naughton

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#70. I used to wonder if running a large industrial company would really square with my values.

William Clay Ford Jr.

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#71. Running a company is pretty demanding.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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#72. If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I think the principles of creative leadership apply everywhere, whether it's an advertising company or whether you're running a hospital.

Ken Robinson

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#73. A team may have some great players, but typically, the team that works best together does the best. I look at running Broadcom in the same way. We have a culture where people have different skill sets, but they are happy to leverage their skills to help others and to help the company.

Henry Samueli

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#74. 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

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#75. You learn every single day when you're running a company. You learn as you go.

Kevin Spacey

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#76. Any company run by unknowing and mechanistic minds is in jeopardy and faces a limited life. Specifically, the pursuance of policies that focus on cost reduction and a continued optimisation of the bottom line just accelerate progress towards sudden death

Peter Cochrane

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#77. Being an entrepreneur is not about being in love with an idea, it's about being in love with running a company.

Max Levchin

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#78. The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.

Ben Horowitz

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#79. Americans are sick of the idea of the government taking over everything and trying to run it. We don't know how to run a bank, a car company.

Lamar Alexander

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#80. I can't run a company ... I can't even run my own life!

Adam Sandler

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#81. Firing people is one of the worst parts of running a company. Actually in my own experience, I think it is the worst.

Sam Altman

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#82. 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

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#83. 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

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