Company Quotes - Page 22

• 56,000 companies have already benefited from the schemes that we have brought in. If we have taken the advice of the Conservative Party, no money would have been used. As Barack Obama said only yesterday, doing nothing is not an option.

  Gordon Brown

  Party, Taken, Yesterday

  "PMQs February 11 2008 Did the Torys change Wikipedia's entry on Titian? (Prime Minister's Questions 8:44)". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. February 11, 2008.

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• One of the problems is that the notion of cancer has been so normalized. You hear about it so often, and it's not ok... it's not ok to normalize this disease. And with all of the pinkwashing that goes on where companies are selling products based on breast cancer month it's a lovely gesture, but consumers get so used to it that it becomes more normal.

  Jennifer Beals

  Cancer, Selling Products, Lovely

  "Jennifer Beals Speaks Out Against 'Pinkwashing'". www.nbcwashington.com. November 01, 2011.

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• I nationalize strategic companies and get criticized, but when Bush does it, it's OK. ... Bush is turning socialist. How are you, comrade Bush?

  Hugo Chavez

  Doe, Socialist, Comrade

  Statement of 21 September 2008, as quoted in "Credit Crisis Fools Latin America's Leaders: Alexandre Marinis" at Bloomberg.com, October 21, 2008.

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• It is not the government's purpose to make a profit the way a company does, because a company doesn't have to give a damn about the unemployed poor or provide services that are non-commercial by definition.

  Jean Chretien

  Government, Giving, Doe

  "Straight From The Heart". Book by Jean Chretien, Chapter Five: A Balancing Act (p. 111-112), 1985.

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• Leadership development is about helping people grow, and if I can get people as individuals growing, then I've got a company that grows.

  James McNerney

  People, Development, Growing

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• Will it be a great source of comfort to certain Canadian boys to know that the bullet that maimed them for life was made from Canadian nickel sold by the International Nickel Company?

  Tommy Douglas

  Boys, Comfort, Bullets

  Tommy Douglas' remarks during a debate at the House of Commons in Ottawa, Ontario, April 3, 1939.

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• These two entities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are not facing any kind of financial crisis. The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.

  Barney Frank

  Two, People, Affordable Housing

  The New York Times, September 11, 2003.

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• I don't like the definition 'war correspondent'. It is history, not journalism, that has condemned the Middle East to war. I think 'war correspondent' smells a bit, reeks of false romanticism: it has too much of the whiff of Victorian reporters who would view battles from hilltops in the company of ladies, immune to suffering, only occasionally glancing towards the distant pop-pop of cannon fire.

  Robert Fisk

  War, Thinking, Views

  "The Great War for Civilization". Book by Robert Fisk, 2005.

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• In nine companies out of ten the factor of fluctuation has been a more dominant and important consideration in the matter of investment than has the factor of long-term growth or decline

  Benjamin Graham

  Long, Growth, Important

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• A price decline is of no real importance to the bona fide investor unless it is either very substantial say, more than a third from cost or unless it reflects a known deterioration of consequence in the company's position. In a well-defined bear market many sound common stocks sell temporarily at extraordinary low prices. It is possible that the investor may then have a paper loss of fully 50 per cent on some of his holdings, without any convincing indication that the underlying values have been permanently affected.

  Benjamin Graham

  Real, Loss, Sound

  "The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing". Book by Benjamin Graham, Chapter II, The Investor and Stock-Market Fluctuations, p. 25, 1949.

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• Unusually rapid growth cannot keep up forever; when a company has already registered a brilliant expansion, its very increase in size makes a repetition of its achievement more difficult.

  Benjamin Graham

  Achievement, Forever, Growth

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• The whole time I was a union leader, we had to put up with John Howard and Tony Abbott attacking workers' conditions. I'm proud of being a moderate trade union official, working co-operatively between employees and employers. I'm interested in better wages for workers, better safety, job security, and, profitable companies, because I understand that if you get co-operation in the workplace, everyone wins.

  Bill Shorten

  Jobs, Winning, Safety

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• What really matters in a workplace, what helps an employer if you've got a unionised workforce is if your shop stewards know the rules of the game, if your safety reps are taught to be able to examine situations to make sure the workplace is more safety. Better informed delegates, better workplace safety saves companies money. Unions are very good at safety. We are good at teaching delegates how to resolve disputes.

  Bill Shorten

  Teaching, Games, Safety

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I've had a chance to really stretch and do a lot of different genres. When I started acting, my whole focus and intention was to work as a stage actor in a company where you're asked to different roles - do a comedy, do a tragedy, etc. I haven't had any reservations about jumping from one type of genre to another.

  Kyle MacLachlan

  Jumping, Focus, Acting

  "Same Vest? Q&A: Kyle MacLachlan on 'Portlandia'". Interview with Paul Schrodt, www.esquire.com. January 4, 2013.

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• When we think about immigration, we have to understand there are folks all around the world who still see America as the land of promise. And they provide us energy, and they provide us innovation. And they start companies like Intel and Google, and we want to encourage that.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, America, Land

  The second presidential debate at Hofstra University, www.democracynow.org. October 17, 2012.

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• I think the celebrity author trend reflects, at least in part, the growing influence of marketing departments at publishing companies. The emphasis becomes on the easy sell, as opposed to finding the best quality and writing and illustrating. There are exceptions (I like John Lithgow's stuff, for example), but a lot of it is putrid, and the best of it is often ghostwritten. Save the ink. Save the trees. Save our brain cells.

  Jabari Asim

  Writing, Thinking, Cells

  "Book World Live: Kid's Books". Online dicuss, www.washingtonpost.com. December 13, 2005.

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• Without investments in research and science that will create the next Apple, create the next new innovation that will sell products around the world, we will lose. If we're not training engineers to make sure that they are equipped here in this country, then companies won't come here. Those investments are what's going to help to make sure that we continue to lead this world economy not just next year, but 10 years from now, 50 years from now, a hundred years from now.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Years, Apples

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• Someone in the society has to deal with the reality that there are finite resources and we're making trade-offs, and be explicit about that. When the car companies were found to have a memo that actually said, "This safety feature costs X and saved Y lives," the very existence of that memo was considered damning. Or when you made it reimbursable for a doctor to ask, "Do you want heroic care at the end-of-life," that was a death panel. No, it wasn't a death panel! It was asking somebody to make a decision.

  Bill Gates

  Reality, Doctors, Safety

  "Bill Gates: ‘Death is something we really understand extremely well’". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. May 17, 2013.

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• Leading by fear is a lot of companies' approach, and a horrible way for people to exist in their lives, when most of your life is spent at work.

  Richard Branson

  People, Way, Life Is

  "Richard Branson: Interview With ORIGIN Magazine" by Maranda Pleasant and Gina G. Murdock, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2012.

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• I think bands will actually make more money without record companies; a much bigger share of the money will go to the bands. You won't have record shops taking 40 percent of the money. You won't have record labels taking 40 percent of the money. So they don't have to sell as many albums as they used to in the past. So it's not necessarily a bad thing if record companies disappear.

  Richard Branson

  Past, Thinking, Albums

  "Living Fully and Doing Business Differently With Richard Branson". Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 25, 2014.

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• Management of an industrial company must be giving targets to the engineers constantly; that may be the most important job management has in dealing with its engineers.

  Akio Morita

  Jobs, Giving, Important

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 168), 1986.

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• Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.

  Akio Morita

  Leadership, Quality, Way

  "The millionaire's book of quotations" by Mark Fisher, (p. 80), 1991.

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• We want to keep the company healthy and its employees happy, and we want to keep them on the job and productive.

  Akio Morita

  Jobs, Healthy, Want

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 144), 1986.

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• I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.

  Akio Morita

  Trying, Made, Employee

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 148), 1986.

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• The "patron saint" of Japanese quality control, ironically, is an American named W. Edwards Deming, who was virtually unknown in his own country until his ideas of quality control began to make such a big impact on Japanese companies.

  Akio Morita

  Country, Impact, Ideas

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 165), 1986.

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