Company Quotes - Page 13

• [Tyler Perry] has the luxury of not doing the political stuff, which is really where I want to be as a company.

  Glenn Beck

  Luxury, Political, Want

  "Glenn Beck's New Hero Is... Tyler Perry?". April 9, 2010.

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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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• 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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• I think everyone should sell whatever product they want to sell for whatever price they want to sell it for, but ultimately the market will dictate what it is and people will have to charge less money for everything. Record companies have been overcharging people for way too long and now this is the trouble that they're in.

  Black Francis

  Thinking, Long, People

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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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• 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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• I always want to have more dancers in my company.

  Alvin Ailey

  Dance, Dancer, Want

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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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• 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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• Is there any fairness in a system where a group of people can borrow a bunch of money to buy a company and pay themselves millions of dollars in dividends and fees, while the company itself ends up bankrupt and its employees lose their jobs, health insurance and pensions?

  William D. Cohan

  Jobs, People, Pay

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• No other content company has Sony's intuitive grasp of technology and no other company has Sony's intimate understanding of the demands of content.

  Howard Stringer

  Technology, Understanding, Contentment

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• It's funny, when I'm not on the road or doing stuff with Bad Company - or whatever- I've always written songs galore... a lot of stuff people don't even hear.

  Mick Ralphs

  Song, People, Stuff

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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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• This alliance with Honeywell is a significant step in our strategy to provide remanufacturing services to other companies. We are pleased to build on our relationship with Honeywell through our world-class remanufacturing capabilities.

  Steve Fisher

  Our World, Class, Alliances

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• Another view is Western companies chartered in societies that believe in this kind of censorship shouldn't be carrying water for societies that do.

  Jonathan Zittrain

  Believe, Views, Water

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• In developing countries the situation could be even worse because developing countries do not have to count their emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. Private companies from industrialized nations will seek cheap carbon credits for their country in the developing world.

  Jennifer Morgan

  Country, Kyoto Protocol, Credit

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• If anything is going to halt necessary investments in next generation networks it will be Congress dictating business models to companies.

  Claudia Jones

  Generations, Next, Investment

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• Ultimately, growth is essential for increasing a company's value.

  Stuart Rose

  Growth, Essentials, Values

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• I was actually a fruitarian at that point in time. I ate only fruit. Now I'm a garbage can like everyone else. And we were about three months late in filing a fictitious business name so I threatened to call the company Apple Computer unless someone suggested a more interesting name by five o'clock that day. Hoping to stimulate creativity. And it stuck. And that's why we're called Apple.

  Steve Jobs

  Business, Creativity, Garbage Cans

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• For there is one thing I can safely say: that those bound by love must obey each other if they are to keep company long. Love will not be constrained by mastery; when mastery comes, the God of love at once beats his wings, and farewell he is gone. Love is a thing as free as any spirit; women naturally desire liberty, and not to be constrained like slaves; and so do men, if I shall tell the truth.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Love, Farewell, Men

  Geoffrey Chaucer (2006). “The Canterbury Tales”, p.451, Bantam Classics

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• I vote Democrat because I believe oil companies profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but the government taxing the same gallon at 15% isn't.

  David Letterman

  Believe, Government, Oil

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• No temple made with hands can compare with Yosemite. Every rock in its walls seems to glow with life...Awful in stern, immovable majesty, how softly these rocks are adorned, and how fine and reassuring the company they keep: Their feet among beautiful groves and meadows, their brows in the sky, a thousand flowers leaning confidingly against their feet, bathed in floods of water, floods of light.

  John Muir

  Beautiful, Wall, Flower

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• If I knew in 1986 how much it was going to cost to keep Pixar going, I doubt if I would have bought the company.

  Steve Jobs

  Best Job, Doubt, Cost

  Fortune, September 18, 1995.

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• The problem with the Internet startup craze isn’t that too many people are starting companies; it’s that too many people aren’t sticking with it.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, People, Problem

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.69, Prabhat Prakashan

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