Company Quotes - Page 20

• I'd say we [Apple Inc.] are the most creative of the technology companies and definitely the most artist-friendly. Almost everyone in the music business uses a Mac and everyone has an iPod.

  Steve Jobs

  Artist, Technology, Apples

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• It is only after years of struggle and deprivation that the young artist should touch color - and then only in the company of his betters.

  El Greco

  Struggle, Artist, Color

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• The IRS says it wants to make sure companies can give their employees a choice between a new cash balance plan and the traditional defined benefit plan. The real question here is whether companies should be required to give their workers that choice.

  Bernie Sanders

  Real, Giving, Choices

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• When you think about the current present value of the fossil fuel reserves that are on the books, the current fossil fuel companies, the last time that that much wealth was at stake was when the South fought the Civil War.

  Chris Hayes

  War, Book, Thinking

  "Chris Hayes Compares Climate Change To The Struggle To End Slavery". Now with Alex Wagner, www.newsbusters.org. October 19, 2012.

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• You either disrupt your own company or someone else will.

  Peter Diamandis

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• I don't think there's anything wrong with being paternalistic as a company.

  Leonard Lauder

  Bisexual, Thinking, Gender And Sexuality

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• For me, exploration was a personal venture. I did not go to the Arabian desert to collect plants nor to make a map; such things were incidental. At heart I knew that to write or even to talk of my travels was to tarnish the achievement. I went there to find peace in the hardship of desert travel and the company of desert peoples. I set myself a goal on these journeys, and, although the goal itself was unimportant, its attainment had to be worth every effort and sacrifice... No, it is not the goal but the way there that matters, and the harder the way the more worth while the journey.

  Wilfred Thesiger

  Writing, Heart, Sacrifice

  Wilfred Thesiger (2008). “Arabian Sands”, p.236, Penguin

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• Mom-and-pop businesses have the same issues as the Fortune 500. The difference is that big companies spend millions on consultants to fix them.

  Christopher Myers

  Mom, Issues, Differences

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• Customer-centricity should be about delivering value for customers that will eventually create value for the company.

  Robert G. Thompson

  Should, Customers, Delivering

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• Running a successful, growing company in Silicon Valley can create an ironic sort of depression and delusion. The better you're doing, the higher the stakes, and higher expectations for you to win. Maybe that's why people say it's so hard. But that doesn't make it hard. That just makes it distracting.

  David Ulevitch

  Running, Successful, Winning

  "Honestly, It's Not All That Hard To Start A Company" by David Ulevitch, www.businessinsider.com. November 20, 2012.

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• Where has this book been? The Culture Engine demystifies the what and how of driving your company's culture to produce transformational business outcomes. Chris Edmonds operationalizes culture while offering practical tools necessary to align your people and gain profound competitive advantage.

  Joseph Michelli

  Book, Offering, Profound

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• I was always told that I was too strange or that I was too cheesy by different groups of people, like the record companies said I was way too weird and the indie people wouldn't even let me in their band.

  Mika

  People, Cheesy, Way

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• Bill Gore from Goretex was a very strong influence because he was one of the first larger companies to experiment with freedom in the workplace.

  Ricardo Semler

  Strong, Bills, Firsts

  "Ricardo Semler, Semco SA". Interview with CNN, www.cnn.com. October 7, 2004.

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• I myself am a builder and get totally excited about building Yahoo! as a brand and building it into a bigger and better company. That's what I intend to do.

  Terry Semel

  Bigger And Better, Excited, Building

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• El pan comido y la compan?  |a deshecha. With the bread eaten, the company breaks up.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Bread, Break

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• Certainly, to have a woman who waits at home for you, who will sleep with you, gives a warm feeling like having something you must say; it makes you glow, keeps you company, helps you to live.

  Cesare Pavese

  Home, Sleep, Giving

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.270, Transaction Publishers

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• Men who have a tempestuous inner life and do not seek to give vent to it by talking or writing are simply men who have no tempestuous inner life. Give company to a lonely man and he will talk more than anyone.

  Cesare Pavese

  Lonely, Writing, Men

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.101, Transaction Publishers

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• Oh, poverty parts good company.

  Walter Scott

  Poverty, Good Company

  Walter Scott (2016). “The Abbot, Complete: Scott's Works Vol.19”, p.59, VM eBooks

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• A man's got to keep company a long time, and come early and stay late and sit close, before he can get a girl or a job worth having.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Girl, Jobs, Men

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.27, Lulu.com

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• Misery loves company, particularly when she is herself the hostess, and can give generously of her stores to others.

  John Kendrick Bangs

  Giving, Misery, Stores

  John Kendrick Bangs (2015). “The Water Ghost and Others: Bangs Classic Collection”, p.11, 谷月社

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• It is hard to think that a $2 billion company with 4,300-plus people couldn't compete with six people in blue jeans.

  Steve Jobs

  Thinking, Blue, Jeans

  Newsweek, September 30, 1985.

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• My opinion is that the only two computer companies that are software-driven are Apple and NeXT, and I wonder about Apple.

  Steve Jobs

  Two, Apples, Next

  Fortune Magazine, August 26, 1991.

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• A gentleman does not appear to know more or to be more than those with whom he is thrown into company.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Gentleman, Doe, Thrown

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• For example: (1) As if governed by Newton's First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction; (2) Just as work expands to fill available time, corporate projects or acquisitions will materialize to soak up available funds; (3) Any business craving of the leader, however foolish, will be quickly supported by detailed rate-of-return and strategic studies prepared by his troops; and (4) The behavior of peer companies, whether they are expanding, acquiring, setting executive compensation or whatever, will be mindlessly imitated.

  Warren Buffett

  Law, Leader, Peers

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.151, John Wiley & Sons

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• There are advantages to being the chairman. One of my favorite perks was picking out an issue and doing what I called a "deep dive." It's spotting a challenge where you think you can make a difference - one that looks like it would be fun - and then throwing the weight of your position behind it. Some might justifiably call it "meddling." I've often done this just about everywhere in the company.

  Jack Welch

  Fun, Thinking, Differences

  "Jack: Straight from the Gut". Book by Jack Welch, 2001.

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