Company Quotes - Page 14

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

  Stuart Rose

  Growth, Essentials, Values

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

  Alvin Ailey

  Dance, Dancer, Want

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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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• 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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• There's a lot of symbolism to your return. Is that going to be enough to reinvigorate the company with a sense of magic?

  Steve Jobs

  Business, Symbolism, Magic

  "Steve Jobs: `There's Sanity Returning'". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. May 23, 1998.

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• Apple has some tremendous assets, but I believe without some attention, the company could, could, could - I'm searching for the right word - could, could die.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Believe, Apples

  "Steve Jobs, in His Own Words", www.foxnews.com. October 5, 2011.

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• The actor must be full of passion. If he's too cool he's better off as the manager of a company, not someone who appears on the stage.

  Stella Adler

  Passion, Actors, Stage

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• Making an enduring company was both harder and more important than making a great product.

  Steve Jobs

  Leadership, Important, Endure

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• There is no excuse-and we should call a spade a spade-for chemical companies and oil refineries using our major rivers as pipelines for toxic waste. There is no excuse for communities to use other people's rivers as a dump for their raw sewage.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Oil, Rivers, Toxic Waste

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• If I could get one message to you it would be this: the future of this country and the welfare of the free world depends upon our success in space. There is no room in this country for any but a fully cooperative, urgently motivated all-out effort toward space leadership. No one person, no one company, no one government agency, has a monopoly on the competence, the missions, or the requirements for the space program.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Country, Space, Agency

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• Well, I got to have a project. I'm not a blue-sky guy at all. I'd never let anybody like me loose in a company.

  Gordon Bell

  Blue, Sky, Guy

  "Remember This?" by Alec Wilkinson, www.newyorker.com. May 28, 2007.

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• As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Beautiful, Writing, Night

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• If I have erred, I err in company with Abraham Lincoln.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Abraham, Ifs

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• It's necessary, sometimes, for women to embrace the company of other women even more than might seem normal. But there is no normal in this world. Radical change is necessary to counterbalance what has occurred.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Enlightenment, Radical Change

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• It takes a long time-many incarnations of right action, good company, help of the guru, self-awakening, wisdom, and meditation-for man to regain his soul consciousness of immortality. To reach this state of Self-realization, each man must practice meditation to transfer his consciousness from the limited body to the unlimited sphere of joy felt in meditation.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Men, Practice, Self

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• The magazine was being started by a company that had no experience in business magazine publishing. It was a little difficult to get people to sort of buy into it and to join the staff, but we did.

  James Daly

  Business, People, Magazines

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• Liberalism is wrong because it doesn't work. If a company is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

  George Will

  Political, Failing, Bigs

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• Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.

  Seneca the Younger

  Motivational, Men, Thinking

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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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• We've got a tax code that is encouraging flight of jobs and outsourcing. And that's why we've specifically recommended in this campaign that Congress change our tax code so that we stop giving tax breaks to companies that are moving to Mexico and China and other places, and start putting those tax breaks into companies that are investing here in the United States.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Moving, Giving

  Barack Obama and Alan Keyes Illinois Senate Debate hosted by Illinois Radio Network in the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois, www.keyesarchives.com. October 12, 2004.

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• The interesting thing about the China story, getting back to the macro and micro, and as dire as I think the macro story is - due to bad credit and credit extension that makes Greece and Spain and the U.S. look like child's play - when you get to the micro of individual companies, they look even worse.

  James Chanos

  Children, Thinking, Play

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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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• 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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• 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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• I was always the kid on scholarship, I was a soloist with my company, I'd been working with the symphony since I was 14.

  Summer Glau

  Kids, Symphony, Scholarship

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 24, 2008.

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