Company Quotes - Page 18

• The normal Hollywood approach is to have a super-charged production company and then go to the studios for distribution and marketing.

  Robert Simonds

  Marketing, Hollywood, Normal

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I see these conferences as a good way to have a break from the day-to-day, learn about some new tech, polish up on some old skills and hopefully have some fun also. They're also good as they show my company is prepared to invest in my skillset.

  Rob Mills

  Fun, Skills, Way

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• I run a multi billion dollar company

  Tito Ortiz

  Running, Dollars, Billions

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• People being forced to get health care and the insurance companies making millions.

  Lizz Winstead

  People, Care, Insurance Companies

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I am the Alexander Graham Bell of the phone company, the Christopher Columbus of America because after 'The Twist' everything changed, .. Watch the films from 1958 up to 1959, and watch American Bandstand during that time. After the song came out, everything was different.

  Chubby Checker

  Song, Phones, America

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• I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospitals in deploying a basic framework for an electronic medical records system that is affordable.

  Samuel Wilson

  Physicians, Records, Medical

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• From the industry's point of view, the problem is not that coal companies blast the top off mountains, turning the area into a moonscape and polluting the air and releasing toxic chemical into what's left of the local streams and aquifers. It's that the people who live near the mines are too cozy with their cousins.

  Jeff Goodell

  Cousin, Aquifers, Air

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• And what do automobile companies do? They see something that's taking off and they want to mimic it, don't they?

  Don Panoz

  Want, Automobile

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• Big money, big Liberal Party politics and big media are trying to get rid of us, of course, by letting Packer take over Fairfax - a media-only company. But we're hanging in there and doing the best job we can for our readers while we can.

  Margo Kingston

  Jobs, Party, Media

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• Night and day a picture of the showcase of the Lame Novelty Company and its gambling content would seem to appear before my eyes. Then I realized that I could not rest content and continue practising to become a magician until I knew what those gambling gimmicks in that showcase click.

  John Scarne

  Eye, Night, Gambling

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• We are always in our own company.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

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• I enjoyed learning the poems, but I didn't understand of what use they might possibly be. ‘They'll keep you company on the day you have no books to read,' my teacher said.

  Alberto Manguel

  Teacher, Book, Use

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• Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Solitude, Be Good, Wells

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• Think of it: the lowest common denominator in being digital is not your operating system, modem, or model of computer. It's a tiny piece of plastic, designed decades ago by Bell Labs' Charles Krumreich, Edwin Hardesty, and company, who thought they were making an inconspicuous plug for a few telephone handsets. Not in their wildest dreams was Registered Jack 11 - a modular connector more commonly known as the RJ-11 - meant to be plugged and unplugged so many times, by so many people, for so many reasons, all over the world.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Dream, Thinking, People

  "RJ-11". Nicholas Negroponte's letter to WIRED Ventures Ltd., web.media.mit.edu. April 1, 1998.

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• I build duets into bigger works. I like to see people working together. What we call a giant solo in my company is about four bars long while twenty other people are doing something dynamically. I like the charge that is set up by a lot of people doing something.

  Mark Morris

  Long, People, Working Together

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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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• Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination.

  Gore Vidal

  Lonely, Children, Book

  Gore Vidal (1994). “Screening History”

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• Solitude is very sad, Too much company twice as bad.

  William Allingham

  Solitude, Too Much, Very Sad

  William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham (1912). “Poems”

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• Creating in all employees the awareness that their best efforts are essential and that they will share in the rewards of the company's success.

  Tom Peters

  Best Effort, Creating, Essentials

  "In Search of Excellence". Book by Tom Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr., 1982.

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• Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.

  Tom Peters

  Quality, Essentials, Culture

  "In Search of Excellence". Book by Tom Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr., 1982.

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• Without commenting on the legal aspects, which I'm not capable of doing, those are lifestreams and there are other companies that have done similar things. That makes me angry personally, not because of the money, but because of the deliberate failure to acknowledge work that we would have made freely available as academics.

  David Gelernter

  Done, Aspect, Made

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• If you do or don't like something it's because of that thing and not because it has the right politics behind them or the right company or the right connections. It's really just about the thing itself.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Connections, Behinds, Like Something

  "Exclusive Interview: Joseph Gordon-Levitt on (500) DAYS OF SUMMER". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. July 16, 2009.

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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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• If I had to spend equal time doing paintings, and equal time going to galleries and doing art business, and equal time making music, and equal time going to record companies, or to the publicist or to the lawyer, forget it. It would take four times as long to do all that stuff. Unless I had a patron. That's why Leonardo da Vinci was successful. He had the Medicis, right?

  Debbie Harry

  Art, Successful, Long

  "The Survivors: Debbie Harry". GQ Interview, www.gq.com. November 4, 2011.

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• We are delighted that these regulations are now law, and we commend the provincial government for helping put the issue on the front burner. These requirements will push more companies to have the conversations they should be having around board and executive committee diversity and, hopefully, their talent development. Businesses need to tap the full pool of smart, talented people to stay competitive and strengthen our country’s economic future.

  Alex Johnston

  Country, Smart, Issues

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