Company Quotes - Page 5

• All companies would be better off if they stopped trying to be amazing and just focused on being useful.

  Jay Baer

  Trying, Would Be, Better Off

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• The wealthiest places in the world are not gold mines, oil fields, diamond mines or banks. The wealthiest place is the cemetery. There lies companies that were never started, masterpieces that were never painted… In the cemetery there is buried the greatest treasure of untapped potential. There is a treasure within you that must come out. Don’t go to the grave with your treasure still within YOU.

  Myles Munroe

  Lying, Greatest Treasure, Oil

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• It's far more difficult being a small-business owner starting a business than it is for me with thousands of people working for us and 400 companies. Building a business from scratch is 24 hours, 7 days a week, divorces, it's difficult to hold your family life together, it's bloody hard work and only one word really matters - and that's surviving.

  Richard Branson

  Divorce, Hard Work, People

  "Richard Branson on Being Richard Branson". Interview with Rod Kurtz, www.entrepreneur.com. December 17, 2012.

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• Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

  Bill Gates

  Leadership, Business, Motivation

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• I do think that in order for a company to be interesting to the investment community, there needs to be a plan; there needs to be a bigger retail footprint. There needs to be this idea - DNA, lifestyle, words I hate.

  Marc Jacobs

  Hate, Thinking, Order

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• The higher you go in a company, the less oxygen there is, so supporting
  intelligent life becomes difficult.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Business, Intelligent, Oxygen

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• 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

  Inspirational, Money, Intelligent

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don't like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don't spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities.

  Michael Dell

  Success, Business, Work

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• The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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• A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Money, Government

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• There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization's overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash flow...It goes without saying that no company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it.

  Jack Welch

  Running, Appreciation, Believe

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• The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Company You Keep, Differences, Heaven

  "A Civil Campaign". Book by Lois McMaster Bujold, 1999.

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• I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.

  Barbara Hambly

  Book, Shining, Retreat

  Barbara Hambly (2011). “Bride of the Rat God”, p.36, Open Road Media

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• We've reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy.

  Gary Hamel

  Creating, Innovation, Growth

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• I wake up every morning and think to myself, 'How far can I push the company forward in the next 24 hours?

  Leah Busque

  Inspiring, Morning, Thinking

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• Successful companies in social media function more like entertainment companies, publishers, or party planners than as traditional advertisers.

  Erik Qualman

  Powerful, Party, Successful

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• No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

  Alan Turing

  Powerful, Brain, President

  Quoted in Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma of Intelligence (1983)

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• As it is for a person, so it is for a company: having a sense of purpose is invigorating and motivating.

  Jon Miller

  Purpose, Persons, Invigorating

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• One company can serve some of your needs all of the time, or all of your needs some of the time, but never both.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Business, Needs

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• Individuals don't build great companies, teams do.

  Mark Suster

  Team, Individual, Great Company

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• Your brand is formed primarily, not by what your company says about itself, but what the company does.

  Jeff Bezos

  Doe, Brands

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• Joining a band of brothers together, a group with one common interest or mission, whether as a company, a team, or a motorcycle club, requires not only a commitment to loyalty but an understanding of self-preservati on as well.

  Sonny Barger

  Loyalty, Brother, Team

  FaceBook post by Sonny Barger from Jan 30, 2015

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• There is no one, right way to design or develop anything. To a large degree, it needs to reflect the culture  -  especially the innovation culture  -  of a company.

  Nathan Shedroff

  Design, Innovation, Degrees

  "Futures, experience and design". Interview with Nik Baerten, medium.com. February 15, 2016.

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• To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.

  Carly Fiorina

  Jobs, Sometimes, Ceo

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• Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.

  Alex Kapranos

  Men, Attractive, Behave

  "Bringing Sexy Back". Interview With Scott Frampton, www.marieclaire.com. January 6, 2008.

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