Company Quotes

• The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

  Epictetus

  Friendship, Best Friend, Uplifting

  "The Art of Living: The Classic Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness, A New Interpretation by Sharon Lebell". Book by Epictetus, 1994.

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• The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world-not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.

  Charles Handy

  People, Giving, Work Out

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• 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

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Business

  Mary Kay Ash (1995). “Mary Kay, You Can Have it All: Lifetime Wisdom from America's Foremost Woman Entrepreneur”, Prima Lifestyles

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• My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Clever, Ideas

  Persuasion ch. 16 (1818)

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• The future lies with those companies who see the poor as their customers.

  C. K. Prahalad

  Lying, Poor, Customers

  "Integrating the Rural Poor Into Markets" by Bibek Debroy, ‎Amir Ullah Khan, (p. 17), 2004.

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• Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can't tell you whether someone will fit into a company's culture.

  Howard Schultz

  Art, Business, Technology

  "Grounds For Success". Interview with Scott S. Smith, www.entrepreneur.com. May, 1998.

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• A company's employees are its greatest asset and your people are your product

  Richard Branson

  People, Assets, Employee

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• I like the opportunity to travel the world and work in close company with other people.

  Marc Garneau

  Travel, Opportunity, People

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• Employees are your most valuable assets. They are the heart and guts of a company. This doesn't mean that from time to time, you aren't going to do what is good for the company.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Heart, Mean, Assets

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• I've actually taken companies public, I've actually busted companies, I've actually gone broke.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Taken, Gone, Broke

  Twitter post from Jan 18, 2017

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  Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

  Louisa May Alcott

  Book, Soul And Body, Good Company

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Ultimate Collection: 16 Novels & 150+ Short Stories, Plays and Poems (Illustrated): Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, Lulu's Library, The Abbot's Ghost, A Garland for Girls…”, p.2484, e-artnow

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• Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.143, University of Georgia Press

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• Be loyal to your boss, your company, your co-workers. Someone is always listening.

  Brian Tracy

  Boss, Listening, Loyal

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• An adaptable company is one that captures more than its fair share of new opportunities. It's always redefining its 'core business' in ways that open up new avenues for growth.

  Gary Hamel

  Opportunity, Growth, Way

  Gary Hamel (2012). “What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation”, p.99, John Wiley & Sons

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• Anyone who wants to be an entrepreneur like someone else is actually looking in the wrong direction. You don't look out for inspiration, you look in. You have to ask yourself how can I be better today, at solving the problem I am trying to solve for my company. I wouldn't encourage anyone to be like me. Just be like you.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Inspiration, Entrepreneur, Trying

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• The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competitors, the best way to put distance between you and the crowd is to do an outstanding job with information. How you gather, manage and use information will determine whether you win or lose.

  Bill Gates

  Meaningful, Jobs, Distance

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.12, Hachette UK

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• Find better company, find company of people better than yourself so you be surrounded with those best in character and so you may learn something.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  Character, People, May

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• If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like.

  Soichiro Honda

  People, Remember, Outstanding

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• The sales department isn’t the whole company, but the whole company better be the sales department.

  Philip Kotler

  Whole, Department

  Philip Kotler (2011). “Marketing Insights from A to Z: 80 Concepts Every Manager Needs to Know”, p.130, John Wiley & Sons

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• It doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is - what matters is its relative 'share of customer value' in the final product or solution, and its cost of producing that value.

  Gary Hamel

  Educational, Ecosystems, What Matters

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• I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven't belonged to any company or any system. It isn't easy to live like this in Japan.

  Haruki Murakami

  Independent, Japan, Easy

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• If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Cake, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.

  Elon Musk

  Car, Customers, Productions

  "Elon Musk: Refining Gas Uses More Electricity Than Electric Cars". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. October 26, 2011.

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• Harley-Davidson is the finest company in the world.

  Evel Knievel

  World, Finest, Harley

  Interview With Tony Marx, mnmotorcycle.com. June 6, 2001.

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• I started out as a receptionist. I typed, I filed, I answered the phones for a little nine-person company.

  Carly Fiorina

  Phones, Littles, Nine

  "An Interview with Future California Sen. Carly Fiorina". Interview with Larry Kudlow, www.nationalreview.com. June 10, 2010.

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