Company Quotes - Page 10

• The Macau casinos have a wonderful business, it's taking in money from Chinese businessmen elsewhere who send it through junky companies to casinos to gamble. The growth continues and they have basically western managers and western accounting, so we trust the numbers a little bit more.

  James Chanos

  Numbers, Chinese, Growth

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• My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me quiet; I like to be in their company.

  Peter Zumthor

  Quiet, Plant

  "Peter Zumthor: In pursuit of perfection" by Rowan Moore, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.

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• Watching nonprogrammers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn’t know how to surf trying to surf. Even if he has great advisers standing on the shore telling him what to do, he still falls off the board again and again.

  Joel Spolsky

  Running, Fall, Trying

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• It is not for me (to decide). It is up to the company to decide whether the price is fair or not.

  Richard Branson

  Fairs

  "Branson: it's not up to me" by Steve Busfield, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2005.

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• Clearly, there aren't enough positive moments or interactions happening in the workplace. As a result, our economy suffers, companies suffer, and individual relationships suffer.

  Tom Rath

  Suffering, Workplace, Conflict

  "Be Nice: It's Good for Business". Interview with Jennifer Robison, www.gallup.com. August 12, 2004.

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• The U.S. healthcare system is probably the most interesting large group of companies that are heading for major problems that we've seen in a long, long time.

  James Chanos

  Long, Interesting, Groups

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• Of the 55 refineries closed in America in the last 10 years, they were all closed for economic reasons, mostly oil company mergers. Not a single one was closed for environmental purposes or objections.

  Peter DeFazio

  America, Years, Oil

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• The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups.

  Norman Granz

  Rocks, Groups, Records

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• Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Long, Knows

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.18

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• The problem with our churches today is that the lead pastor is some sissy boy who wears cardigan sweaters, has The Carpenters dialed in on his iPod, gets his hair cut at a salon instead of a barber shop, hasn’t been to an Ultimate Fighting match, works out on an elliptical machine instead of going to isolated regions of Russia like in Rocky IV in order to harvest lumber with his teeth, and generally swishes around like Jack from Three’s Company whenever Mr. Roper was around.

  Mark Driscoll

  Fighting, Cutting, Boys

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• The main social responsibility for a company is to win.

  Jack Welch

  Responsibility, Winning, Social

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• Somebody asked me 'what's the job of a CEO', and there's a number of things a CEO does. What you mostly do is articulate the vision, develop the strategy, and you gotta hire people to fit the culture. If you do those three things, you basically have a company. And that company will hopefully be successful, if you have the right vision, the right strategy, and good people.

  Brian Chesky

  Jobs, Successful, Numbers

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• Having a clear mission and making sure you know that mission and making sure that mission comes through the company is probably the most important thing you can do for both culture and values.

  Brian Chesky

  Important, Culture, Missions

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• Gone is the day where you work at a job for thirty years and retire. Millennials jump around and switch careers. I think it's important for CEOs to highlight career mobility within a company, so that employees don't get bored and continue to be stimulated.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Jobs, Thinking, Years

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• But I really am very active in the choice of the line producer with the producer of record and the distributing company, because I've had some terrible, terrible experiences with some line producers, particularly in cable.

  John Frankenheimer

  Choices, Records, Lines

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• But every company of the future is going to be in the business of exquisite care - which means quick turnaround time and convenience. To deliver exquisite care, you need an organization that coordinates well and listens well.

  Fernando Flores

  Mean, Organization, Needs

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• When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.

  Roger Zelazny

  Wombats, Dies

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• What's the point in having a company of secretaries?

  Bob Geldof

  Secretary

  "Simplicity is the key to creativity" by Chris Baréz-Brown, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2015.

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• Keep not money, but keep good people's company.

  Nikolai Gogol

  People, Good People

  Nikolai Gogol (2011). “Dead Souls: A Novel”, p.26, Vintage

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• I used to work for a management consulting company, so I dressed differently - business casual, probably a lot of things from Banana Republic. My wardrobe now is definitely more expensive, but I always dress for the occasion.

  John Legend

  Dresses, Republic, Bananas

  "John Legend On Fashion Trends" by Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com.

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• Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change. A company that stands still will soon be forgotten. Trying to provoke positive change is a principle we've embedded across the Virgin family for more than four decades.

  Richard Branson

  Change, Trying, Stories

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• Nearly 7 in 10 Fortune 500 companies have a corporate Facebook page, and more than that have active Twitter accounts.

  Clara Shih

  Pages, Fortune, Facebook Page

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• How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world around them.

  Van Wyck Brooks

  People, Mind, World

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• The Church must be seen as the company of pilgrims on the way to the end of the world and the ends of the earth.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Church, World, Earth

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• Companies that hire employees..that are deeply passionate create companies that customers are really really passionate about, and those are the companies that have strong brands.

  Brian Chesky

  Strong, Passionate, Employee

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