The Company Quotes

#1. The missionary is building the product and building the service because they love the customer, because they love the product, because they love the service. The mercenary is building the product or service so that they can flip the company and make money.

Jeff Bezos

#2. You don't have to invent the wheel, but you might want to be the company that invents the rims.

MC Hammer

#3. Believing everything your child does wrong is entirely down to the company he or she keeps.

Paulo Coelho

#4. Reflect on the company you keep. Are these the kind of people who leadyou towards or away from Allah (swt)?

Mohamed Hag Magid

#5. I advise all my novel students to write in the company of 'Veronica Mars.'

Andrea Seigel

#6. We always talk about how you have to build a brand from the inside out, not the outside in. Brands are not wrappers. Brands are based on the values of the founders, and then they spread to the people who work for the company, and then that psychological contract is spread to the customer.

Dan Levitan

#7. Your inner joy will journey alongside you - supported within the company of your Soul.

Eleesha

#8. A lot of the people who have come to know the company in the last few years will not have seen this piece.

Matthew Bourne

#9. I have been given permission to announce that I and others from 'All My Children' have been approached by the company Prospect Park, who bought 'AMC,' with the intention to move it online.

Cameron Mathison

#10. America is an unsolvable problem: a nation divided and deeply in hate with itself. If it was a startup, we'd understand how unfixable the situation is; most of us would leave for a fresh start, and the company would fall apart. America is MySpace.

Michael Arrington

#11. 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

#12. Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.

Jack Welch

#13. If I ran the whole place like it was my way or the highway, we would not be as good a company. I'm going to have mistakes - they'll be made on my watch and will embarrass me. But I'll also make sure the company learns from them so it can become a better company.

Jamie Dimon

#14. A congressman actually apologized to BP's CEO for the way the company has been treated. How stupid are you when the CEO of BP is in the room and people think you're the moron?

Jay Leno

#15. Standing alone, photographs promise an understanding they cannot deliver. In the company of words, they take on meaning, but they slough off one meaning and take on another with alarming ease.

Susan Sontag

#16. I don't need company in the company of you. And I don't need love, 'Cause your love will do. And I've got you. And you've got me. And that's all we need.

Tegan Quin

#17. The single word that matters most I think to keep the company productive as it grows is alignment.

Sam Altman

#18. Managers are important: they are leading the company and guiding and have to provide vision and manage the daily business.

Hasso Plattner

#19. There's a good argument to be made that companies that are private, where they're run by partnerships, where everybody has true stake in them and they're not playing with other people's money, that by default it's a safer system, because you really have skin in the game. You really own the company.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

#20. Facebook is at the forefront. It's the company that can fundamentally change the way information is being exchanged and processed. It can be the basis for artificial intelligence to develop over time.

Yuri Milner

#21. When you lose your freedom, you lose, first and foremost, the opportunity to choose the company you keep.

Masha Gessen

#22. I had written hundreds of memos during my 26 years at the company, and all had shared a common thread. They were about self-examination in the pursuit of excellence, and a willingness not to embrace the status quo. This is a cornerstone of my leadership philosophy.

Howard Schultz

#23. at Pixar, Steve couldn't shape the culture. He wasn't the founder, and even as owner, he could not change the company to reflect his image and sensibilities. It already had a culture. It already had a leader. Its cohesive and collaborative team knew exactly what it wanted to do.

Brent Schlender

#24. The best source by far for hiring is people that you already know and people that other employees in the company already know.

Sam Altman

#25. Any man in the company of two woman is outnumbered four to one however amiable they may be. By definition."
'So when its just you and me I outnumber you two to one, is that right?'
"Affirmative.

Kingsley Amis

#26. As growth-minded leaders, they start with a belief in human potential and development - both their own and other people's. Instead of using the company as a vehicle for their greatness, they use it as an engine of growth - for themselves, the employees, and the company as a whole.

Carol S. Dweck

#27. A show can be artistically successful; a show can be financially successful; a show can be successful by the transformative experience the audience is having; a show can be successful from the point of view of what is experienced by the cast and the company on a daily basis.

David Binder

#28. Why movie and dance critics are taking 'The Company' seriously, I can't imagine. Are they impressed by Altman's reputation and naive sincerity? By the fluid semi-documentary approach?

Robert Gottlieb

#29. When I was president of the company, I said, 'Okay, I can do this - piece of cake.' Then when you are the CEO, the responsibilities multiply enormously because you worry about everything.

Indra Nooyi

#30. The company's stock dropped like seagull turds on a car hood, panties on prom night, celebrity names during red-carpet coverage.

Dennis Vickers

#31. Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information.

Scott Adams

#32. It's necessary, sometimes, for women to embrace the company of other women even more than might seem normal. But there is no normal in this world. Radical change is necessary to counterbalance what has occurred.

Frederick Lenz

#33. 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

#34. We need to be responsible for ourselves; we must create our own republics. Today we hand over our responsibility to the boss, to the company, to government, and then blame them when everything goes wrong.

Tom Hodgkinson

#35. If we are to find our way across troubled waters, we are better served by the company of those who have built bridges, who have moved beyond despair and inertia.

Marilyn Ferguson

#36. You have to want to be in the company of those you're making films about.

Mira Nair

#37. Grove continued to act on the conviction that good strategic thinking requires different points of view and clarifying those different points of view requires intensive, ongoing debate involving the executive team and domain experts inside and outside the company.

David B. Yoffie

#38. Pardon? Why, sir, I beg your pardon, for if that was pardon, then fists are love and nooses are kisses. You speak of duty? Duty is the rope that strangles me. Piety is a bed of broken glass. And family is the company of hateful demons.

Rachel Caine

#39. The company wants to sell you more shampoo, your friend doesn't, so she gets more trust points.

Chip Heath

#40. Should two founders split the company right down the middle? Answer you're looking for: No, you should allocate 25 percent to future employees and 35 percent to the first two rounds of investments. That leaves 40 percent for the founders to split among themselves.

Guy Kawasaki

#41. To operate based on conviction and belief requires an acceptance that your actions could get you fired. This is different from pig-headed bravado, and it is different from putting the company at risk.

Simon Sinek

#42. It's a real gift to have a husband and wife in the company that love each other and that work together. They check on each other emotionally and physically. That's beautiful to me.

Judith Jamison

#43. Stand often in the company of dreamers: they tickle your common sense & believe you can achieve things which are impossible.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#44. Sea. I was even glad of what I had learned in the afternoon at the office of the company - that at the eleventh

Henry James

#45. The chief executive officer is also the chief sales officer. He or she is responsible for the success of the company and making a profit. The closer the CEO is to the everyday selling process, bringing in business, the more successful the company will become.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#46. One of the perks of being the founder is that you get to build the company in your image.

Mitch Kapor

#47. It's truth to say in all save solitude - and in some sad cases, even then - you can always count on the company of fools.

Jay Kristoff

#48. We've got some real greedy hogs who own no interest in the company they're running, whose sole interest is in whatever it takes to be able to get to the point to fly out on their golden parachute and milk the shareholder and take risks that they shouldn't take.

Joe Jamail

#49. I might have enjoyed the company of a woman or two ... Or three but that had never
stopped me from loving you.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#50. Designing a product and understanding how it filters through into the market and into the rest of the company is very important to me.

Alexander Wang

#51. No one says: when my family treated me as a stranger, I preferred the company of strangers, and I walked among strangers and what did I find but God in every one of their faces.

Joanna Brooks

#52. A boss should be respectful of everybody. He should still make sure everybody knows that he is the boss, without having to say it 24/7, but by him approaching you in a way that led you to know that you mean something to the company.

Kevin Clash

#53. If anyone had asked him there and then if it was worth it, he would have whispered: "I don't know." Sometimes life doesn't let you choose your battles. Just the company you keep. He

Fredrik Backman

#54. The point I'm trying to make is that we as a family have bent over backward not to take advantage of Wal-Mart, not to press our ownership position unfairly, and everybody in the company knows it. Alice

Sam Walton

#55. But I can't take responsibility for criminal conduct of somebody inside the company.

Kenneth Lay

#56. 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

#57. Our vision, which has not changed since the day the company was founded.

Bill Gates

#58. The weakness in the company is if we fail to execute.

Kevin Rollins

#59. If you go through some big corporate change, it's just not going to be the same. If we sold to Yahoo, they would have done something different; if you want to continue your vision of the company, then don't sell because there's inevitably going to be some change.

Mark Zuckerberg

#60. The easiest and shortest way to God -realization is through the contact of a Sadguru , which means keeping the company or sahavas of such a Master, obeying him and serving him. This remedy is like a special express train which carries you straight to your destination.

Meher Baba

#61. 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

#62. It is only after years of struggle and deprivation that the young artist should touch color - and then only in the company of his betters.

El Greco

#63. When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief: offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord's devotees.

Chanakya

#64. Avoid people who say they know the answer. Keep the company of people who are trying to understand the question.

Billy Connolly

#65. We are very fortunate to have Matt Carter join the Apollo board. Matt brings deep management, operations, marketing and international business expertise to the company, along with a track record of growing and strengthening well-known consumer brands.

Peter Sperling

#66. IBM's long-standing mantra is 'Think.' What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place for me, is the passion of the company, and its people, to apply technology and scientific thinking to major societal issues.

Ginni Rometty

#67. People who keep dogs live longer on average than those who do not. This is not some kind of pro-canine campaigning fantasy. It is a simple medical fact that the calming influence of the company of a friendly pet animal reduces blood pressure and therefore
the risk of heart attack.

Desmond Morris

#68. I suppose I felt guilty not to be doing something more important, more political. So in a way I am trying to use the company for these other activities.

Miuccia Prada

#69. Time spent in the company of remarkable men is time well spent.

Ian McDonald

#70. Customers don't distinguish between you and the company you work for. To the customer's way of thinking, you are the company.

Ron Zemke

#71. As the owner of the company, I'm always focusing on how my company can do more for less. And it's one of the principles of the world.

Robert Kiyosaki

#72. I'm often in the company of adults, so it's nice to meet girls my age or younger.

Malala Yousafzai

#73. When we first started Glitch, there were four co-founders of the company. We built Flickr and worked together at Yahoo and then started Tiny Speck. We were split in Vancouver, New York, and San Francisco. So we used an old chat technology called IRC. Almost nothing went through email.

Stewart Butterfield

#74. Today, I think a CFO needs to be more of an operating CFO: someone who's using the financial data and the data of the company to help drive strategy, the allocation of capital, and the management of risks.

Anthony Noto

#75. And our size: The company this year is going to be close to $50 billion, so if that's the case and you can continue to grow that fast, I would rather put my energies to solving customer problems and growing our business than worrying about integrating and laying people off.

Kevin Rollins

#76. The health establishment is a blood brotherhood known by the company it keeps, and these moguls need no oath or ritual as they work hand in glove with and for each other - if medicine benefits in the process, all to the good.

Edgar Berman

#77. The world crashed on me. I smiled like an idiot as I stood up and rushed away hoping he'd forget we had ever spoken. I walked away from the Company and Sonia, but mostly from Giovanni. I had finally met an awesome guy who did not look like a thug and he was four years older than me?

Gaia B. Amman

#78. I was not allowed to date wrestlers, or anyone else in the company, across the board.

Stephanie McMahon

#79. There were about ten different areas I needed to improve and gradually I improved them all and sold the company a year later. EXPAND THE

James Altucher

#80. The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them.

John Desmond Bernal

#81. The company later went broke, and of course all blame was directed at the lawyers. Not once did I hear any talk that maybe a trace of mismanagement could in any way have contributed to the bankruptcy.

John Grisham

#82. Good manners are cost effective. They not only increase the quality of life in the workplace, they contribute to employee morale, embellish the company image, and play a major role in generating profit.

Letitia Baldrige

#83. It is very rewarding when you see your employees happy and excited about the success of the company. When you introduce something new, a product in the world that gets really high marks and everyone loves using it and raves about it. You will feel very good about it.

Anousheh Ansari

#84. It's OK to sit in the Golden Globe room and look around and think, 'Oh, Helen Mirren's a loser tonight, so is Nicole Kidman. Meryl Streep lost tonight. Jessica Lange didn't win.' If you're gonna be in the company of losers, that's the company to be in.

Sarah Paulson

#85. There are just a number of documents within the company and the industry that clearly indicate that secondhand smoke is just as dangerous, if not more dangerous, than mainstream smoke
and the documents date back into the 70s.

Jeffrey Wigand

#86. Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals.

David Ogilvy

#87. For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.

Steve Wozniak

#88. We do not view the company itself as the ultimate owner of our business assets but instead view the company as a conduit through which our shareholders own assets.

Warren Buffett

#89. Odessa sighed. 'When I said you were one of the smartest people in the company, I was referring solely to your technical abilities. Now get to work.

A. Ashley Straker

#90. I've got an Avalon guitar - that's the company that used to be Lowden. They come out of Ireland, and they're like these folk kind of guitars. You can pick 'em, you can strum 'em - they're quite good.

James Vincent McMorrow

#91. Your company is the company it keeps.

Jeff Jarvis

#92. We are a company that promotes 100% within the company.

James Sinegal

#93. I've always said I'm not the kind of designer who likes to lock himself away in a studio and let the rest of the company deal with it. I work very closely with everyone on the team.

Alexander Wang

#94. I describe the CEO job as knowing what to do and getting the company to do what you want. Designing

Ben Horowitz

#95. Keeping people fired up starts with having a really clear vision for what the company is aiming to do.

Nick Woodman

#96. If you woo the company of the angels in your waking hours, they will be sure to come to you in your sleep.

George D. Prentice

#97. I cannot stand the company of men. They flatter or they judge. I can stand neither of the two.

Albert Camus

#98. Your father calls you to his court. You need not pack. You go garbed in glorious raiment. He waits eagerly by his palace doors to welcome you, and has prepared a place at the high table, by his side, in the company of the great-souled, honored, and best-beloved.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#99. Harmony with nature will bring you a happiness known to few city dwellers. In the company of other truth seekers it will be easier for you to meditate and think of God.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#100. 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