Company Quotes - Page 25

• The music is just like Detroit, a complete mistake. It's like George Clinton and Kraftwerk are stuck in an elevator with only a sequencer to keep them company.

  Derrick May

  Mistake, Detroit, Clinton

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• The social and economic impact of innovative American researchers, companies, and workers over the course of U.S. history have been enormous.

  Robert Hormats

  Impact, Economic, Social

  "The Road to an Effective Innovation Diplomacy" by Robert Hormats, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2013.

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• Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!

  Indra Nooyi

  Design, Innovation, Female

  "Sports: By Women and For Women" by Indra Nooyi, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

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• Managing a country is like managing a company in many ways. It maybe involves more complicated issues, but its the same skills.

  Mohamed ElBaradei

  Country, Skills, Issues

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• We have ripped the humanity out of our companies. It's threatening the very underpinnings of our society.

  Paul Tudor Jones

  Humanity, Our Society, Threatening

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• Innovation is not the exclusive province of New Economy companies.

  John McKinley

  Innovation, Economy, Provinces

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• What an investor needs is the ability to correctly evaluate selected businesses. Note that word “selected”: You don't have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital.

  Warren Buffett

  Circles, Knowing, Important

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• I read annual reports of the company I'm looking at and I read the annual reports of the competitors - that is the main source of material.

  Warren Buffett

  Source, Annual Reports, Annuals

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• To achieve consistently terrific customer service, you must hire wonderful people who believe in your company's goals, habitually do better than the norm and who will love their jobs; make sure that their ideas and opinions are heard and respected; then give them the freedom to help and solve problems for your customers. Rather than providing rules or scripts, you should ask them to treat the customer as they themselves would like to be treated - which is surely the highest standard.

  Richard Branson

  Jobs, Believe, Ideas

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• The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient ... But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem. It's ad hoc meetings of six people called by someone who thinks he has figured out the coolest new thing ever and who wants to know what other people think of his idea.

  Steve Jobs

  Mean, Night, Thinking

  "The Seed of Apple's Innovation". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. October 12, 2004.

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• I've been pounding the table here for a year or so saying there's no free lunch, and there is going to be a day of reckoning for every company that thinks they are going to try and sell a free model.

  Darl McBride

  Thinking, Years, Lunch

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• The business model of Linux distribution is broken; it's like the business model of the dotcoms. Running your company on Linux is like running your company on Napster.

  Darl McBride

  Running, Broken, Napster

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• The great companies did not know that the line between hunger and anger is a thin line.

  John Steinbeck

  Lines, Hunger, Great Company

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.228, Hamilton Books

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• It's the first company to build the mental position that has the upper hand, not the first company to make the product. IBM didn't invent the computer; Sperry Rand did. But IBM was the first to build the computer position in the prospect's mind.

  Al Ries

  Hands, Mind, Upper Hand

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• About 85 percent of what you see is just because I get on the phone and [say], 'Let's go do this'. I don't do any market research or test groups or focus [groups]. I just go, 'It's my company; would I buy it, personally?'

  Todd McFarlane

  Phones, Focus, Groups

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• For a company to excel, employees must be reassured that self-interest, not the company's, is their foremost priority. We believe an employee who puts himself first will be motivated to perform.

  Ricardo Semler

  Believe, Self, Priorities

  Ricardo Semler (2004). “The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works”, p.39, Penguin

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• To survive in modern times, a company must have an organizational structure that accepts change as its basic premise, lets tribal customs thrive, and fosters a power that is derived from respect, not rules. In other words, the successful companies will be the ones that put quality of life first. Do this and the rest - quality of product, productivity of workers, profits for all - will follow.

  Ricardo Semler

  Successful, Quality, Firsts

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• I actually have a number of lovely watches from the International Watch Company.

  Kevin Spacey

  Numbers, Lovely, Watches

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• In my last two years in high school, my face was pocked with pimples, I stammered when I spoke; if I made a mistake, I blushed furiously, and when nervous, as I was in the company of girls, I perspired freely.

  Joseph L. Mankiewicz

  Life, Success, Girl

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• Almost everyone working in mainstream comics started off as a starry-eyed kid reading and loving comics. We're all fans, and that's great. But when we start working on company-owned comics professionally, we have to think like storytellers instead of fans. Editors aren't looking to hire the biggest fans of the characters. They're looking to hire the best creators with the best ideas.

  Greg Pak

  Book, Reading, Character

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• Miramar, my recording company, has decided to offer a compilation of my music for snowboarding, which will have the same cover as the book does.

  Frederick Lenz

  Book, Snowboarding, Doe

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• The Da Vinci Code may well be the only novel ever written that begins with the word 'renowned'... I think what enabled the first word to tip me off that I was about to spend a number of hours in the company of one of the worst prose stylists in the history of literature was this. Putting curriculum vitae details into complex modifiers on proper names or definite descriptions is what you do in journalistic stories about deaths; you just don't do it in describing an event in a narrative... Why did I keep reading? Because London Heathrow is a long way from San Francisco International.

  Geoffrey K. Pullum

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• What is your position at the company? Right back.

  Jason McAteer

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• What guided Chaplin was the proper protection of self-interest (or craziness). So Chapling, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mark Pickford, with DW Griffith and William S Hart, made an alliance, called United Artists, whereby they would own a distribution company that would market their pictures, allowing them a greater return than if they leased the movies to some outside distributor.

  Edward Jay Epstein

  Artist, Self, Hollywood

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• Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network... They have more companies they can get money from.

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Boys, Opportunity

  "Fool.com: TMF Interview: Billie Jean King [Special]". "The Motley Fool" David Gardner, Tom Gardner, www.fool.com. July 3, 2002.

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