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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• As an introvert, you can be your own best friend or your worst enemy. The good news is we generally like our own company, a quality that extroverts often envy. We find comfort in solitude and know how to soothe ourselves. Even our willingness to look at ourselves critically is often helpful.But, we can go too far. We can hoard responsibility and overlook the role others play. We can kick ourselves when we're down. How many times have you felt lousy about something, only to get mad at yourself for feeling lousy?

  Laurie Helgoe

  Responsibility, Worst Enemy, Play

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• Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track.

  Criss Jami

  Thinking, Train Of Thought, Track

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.22, Criss Jami

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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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• I remember when being a 'a company man' was a badge of honor; today in Silicon Valley it may brand you a loser or, in the best case scenario, someone afraid to take risks. Ten years ago, if you saw a resume that had multiple jobs in ten years, you would be worried about the capability of the individual. Not so now.

  Maynard Webb

  Jobs, Men, Years

  "There’s Something Happening Here: Entrepreneurship and the Decline of Corporate Appeal" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 26, 2011.

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• No other technology company other than Apple has successfully transitioned their platform. It's almost never done, and it's way harder than you realise. This transition is where tech companies go to die.

  Jim Balsillie

  Technology, Apples, Transition

  "RIM chiefs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie's best quotes" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• The White Company offers its loyalists an altogether better, whiter world. The White people have edited out any colours that aren't white, off-white, milk chocolate, grey, taupe or black. They can't be doing with Johnnie Boden's cheery Sloane jokes, his spots and stripes, his occasional 'if it's me, it's U' loud colours.

  Peter York

  White, People, Chocolate

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• I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because you want to get along with whatever record company you're dealing with. I don't want to be flaky. I don't want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.

  Black Francis

  Musician, Records, Want

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 23, 1998.

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• From coast to coast, the FBI and Securities and Exchange Commission have ensnared people not only at hedge funds, but at technology and pharmaceutical companies, consulting and law firms, government agencies, and even a major stock exchange.

  Preet Bharara

  Technology, Agency, Government

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• Supermarket companies are big logistics companies, and one of the ways we've increased profitability in the past is by re-evaluating how they do logistics.

  Ronald Burkle

  Past, Logistics, Way

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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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• So ensuring the integrity of the data and integrity and validity of the connection is a very important element in any company's strategy that is moving towards a Web service paradigm.

  John W. Thompson

  Integrity, Moving, Data

  "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.

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• When a manufacturing engineer is hired to create new products but insists on sharing his "wisdom" in accounting with the company controller, he is not going to last long in that company.

  Chin-Ning Chu

  Long, Lasts, New Products

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• The biggest engineering companies, like Schlumberger, Halliburton and others, have technology they spent billions of dollars developing.

  Vagit Alekperov

  Technology, Engineering, Dollars

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• The board is currently undertaking what could be its most important task, ... We are confident that we're going to make a choice that is in the best interest of the company, shareholders and others.

  George J. Mitchell

  Choices, Important, Tasks

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• Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place.

  Susan Cain

  Fashion, Creativity, School

  "The Rise of the New Groupthink". www.nytimes.com. January 13, 2012.

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• American Eagle can be a selling point for other young, cutting-edge companies to come to Pittsburgh

  Ed Rendell

  Cutting, Eagles, Pittsburgh

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• I don't think there is room for 'artistic temperament.' Professional artists understand art is a business. If businesses ran their companies like many artists do their careers, they would not stay open a year.

  Jack White

  Art, Business, Thinking

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• Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength.

  Ryan Holiday

  Weakness, Way, Individual

  Ryan Holiday (2014). “The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph”, p.10, Penguin

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• We are looking to the FTC to see whether companies that break their promises and collect personal information in an unfair and deceptive manner will be held accountable.

  Marc Rotenberg

  Promise, Information, Unfair

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• When there is some fear about accounting and growth and the economy, food stocks are a decent place to be, ... This company has been through a bit of a restructuring the last couple of years. Management is doing a great job. The company is improving and people are buying chocolate. So, what a great week to buy it.

  Liz Miller

  Jobs, Couple, Years

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