Company Quotes - Page 15

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

  Alvin Ailey

  Dance, Dancer, Want

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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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• Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.

  Leif Garrett

  Heart, Records, Record Companies

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

  Roger Zelazny

  Wombats, Dies

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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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• 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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• 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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• It's not like it used to be where everybody has a record company to belong to.

  Edwin Starr

  Records, Used, Record Companies

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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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• 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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• Fashion people think that the careful Nice companies are boring beyond measure. (Nice people think fashionistas look silly and should Get A Life).

  Peter York

  Fashion, Nice, Silly

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• E.Biscom is an Internet company that is diversified, not a diversified company that is trying out the Internet.

  Silvio Scaglia

  Trying, Internet

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• I have my own publishing company called 'I Am McLovin Publishing.

  Teyana

  Publishing, My Own

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• It's a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.

  David Hewson

  Home, Long, Sometimes

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• First, the oil and gas business pays its fair share of taxes. Despite the current debate on energy taxes, few businesses pay more in taxes than oil and gas companies. The worldwide effective tax rate for our industry in 2010 was 40 percent. That's higher than the U.S. statutory rate of 35 percent and the rate for manufacturers of 26.5 percent.

  John S. Watson

  Oil, Energy, Pay

  "CNN Newsroom" with Carol Costello, www.cnn.com. May 12, 2011.

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• I consistently run into young adults who have quickly turned away from traditional jobs at great companies to try their hand at a start-up. I believe that some of this stems from the desire to strike it big like Mark Zuckerberg, but I also believe it is because starting a company has become far cooler than working in one.

  Maynard Webb

  Running, Jobs, Believe

  "There’s Something Happening Here: Entrepreneurship and the Decline of Corporate Appeal" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 16, 2011.

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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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• In talking to founder after founder; I've heard almost visceral reactions to working for companies, even very cool ones with great things to work on and lots of opportunity, like Facebook, Google, or consulting firms.

  Maynard Webb

  Opportunity, Talking, Google

  "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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• 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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• Insider trading tells everybody at precisely the wrong time that everything is rigged, and only people who have a billion dollars and have access to and are best friends with people who are on boards of directors of major companies - they're the only ones who can make a true buck.

  Preet Bharara

  People, Directors, Dollars

  "How Prosecutor Preet Bharara Is Bringing Mob Squad Justice to Wall Street" by Massimo Calabresi, swampland.time.com. February 01, 2012.

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• Significant officials at publicly traded companies are casually and cavalierly engaged in insider trading. Because insider trading has as one of its elements communication, it doesn't take rocket science to realize it's nice to have the communication on tape.

  Preet Bharara

  Nice, Communication, Tape

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• We have witnessed the most educated, successful, and monied professionals in the country put their companies - not to mention their own liberty - at risk by engaging in flagrant and foolhardy illegal conduct.

  Preet Bharara

  Country, Successful, Risk

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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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