Company Quotes - Page 27

• I've had a terrific life, from building one company to be the second largest company in the securities industry and merging that into American Express, and becoming president of that company.

  Sanford I. Weill

  President, Becoming, Building

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• I come back to the same thing: We've got the greatest pipeline in the company's history in the next 12 months, and we've had the most amazing financial results possible over the last five years, and we're predicting being back at double-digit revenue growth in fiscal year '06.

  Steve Ballmer

  Years, Growth, Pipeline

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• I have lots of sources of information about what's going on at the company. I think I have a pretty good pulse on where we are and what people are thinking.

  Steve Ballmer

  Thinking, People, Pulse

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• Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world.

  Steve Ballmer

  Impact, People, World

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• The more we thought, the more they all sounded boring compared to Apple. You didn't have to have a real specific reason for choosing a name when you were a little tiny company of two people; you choose any name you want.

  Steve Wozniak

  Real, Names, Two

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• One of the wonderful things about the computer is that it allows us to sit at home and either write a book or a computer program. Then we can send that program or book to companies that specialize in reproducing them and distributing them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Book, Home, Writing

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• Last year, the journalist Malcolm Gladwell conducted a survey of chief executive officers of Fortune 500 companies for his book Blink. He discovered that while in the US population 14.5 per cent of all men are 6ft (1.83m) or taller, among CEOs of Fortune 500 companies the proportion is 58 per cent. And while 3.9 per cent of American adults are 6ft 2in or taller, almost a third of the CEOs were that tall.

  Daniel Finkelstein

  Book, Men, Years

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• In the space of less than seven days, I attended a track meet in Boston, flew from there to Bowling Green for the National Jaycees, then to Rochester for the blind, Buffalo for another track meet, New York to shoot a film called The Black Athlete, Miami for Ford Motor Company, back up to New York for 45 minutes to deliver a speech, then into L. A. for another the same night.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, New York, Athlete

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• I had always suspected that trying to play golf in the company of big-time pros and a gallery would be something like walking naked into choir practice.

  Dan Jenkins

  Golf, Practice, Play

  Dan Jenkins (2015). “DOGGED VICTIMS OF INEXORABLE FATE”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Since I suffered the injury on company time, why shouldn't I also be able to get surgery and do recovery on company time?

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Recovery, Lakers

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• I'm not one of those people who's saying "I'm going to set up a production company", because I like acting and not having to be a business man and do that side of things.

  Nicholas Hoult

  Men, People, Acting

  "Nicholas Hoult Talks YOUNG ONES, EQUALS, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, X-MEN: APOCALYPSE, AUTOBAHN, KILL YOUR FRIENDS, and Much More". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. October 17, 2014.

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• The subtle differences in language and humor that get lost in translation, for example, make it almost impossible for big companies to do something that will appeal at home and abroad.

  Larry Gelbart

  Home, Differences, Example

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I know one thing - very few writers in Southern California get to write what they want to write. We are more or less worker ants, working for either film companies or tv companies or Internet companies. We do a lot of assigned work. Feelings hardly ever enter into it. If they do, they tend to be on a sort of soap opera level.

  Larry Gelbart

  Writing, California, Southern

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• You can't always do that which you can do in your sleep. That doesn't fulfill an artist. You're looking for places where you can grow, in some way, whether it's a large way or a small way. I want to grow as an artist, as a person and as a woman. I want to enjoy myself and my life and the company that I'm keeping. I want to bring something to the table that's different than anything else would bring, but that has its place and value, and then keep moving.

  Angela Bassett

  Moving, Sleep, Artist

  "Angela Bassett Talks American Horror Story: Freak Show, Filming in New Orleans, Her First Reaction to Finding Out Her Character, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 13, 2014.

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• I learned a lot of things about literature talking to people at the publishing company. Did you know that about 90 percent of celebrity autobiographies are ghostwritten?

  John Cleese

  Talking, People, Literature

  "John Cleese and The Key to Comedy". Interview with Devon Ivie, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 11, 2014.

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• I never learned the rules in the first place. To change the game is at the heart of what Virgin stands for, so the company culture has always been: "Don't sweat it: rules were meant to be broken."

  Richard Branson

  Heart, Games, Sweat

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• I like to take chances on people, and whenever possible, promote from within - it sends a great message to everyone in the company when someone demonstrates a passion for the job and leadership skills at every step along the way and is rewarded with a leadership role.

  Richard Branson

  Jobs, Passion, Skills

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• The way music reflects real life, the way that painstakingly, over the years, what I have said is really a metaphor for what's happening to America. It used to be about, or tried to be at the very beginning, about what was right. It has stopped being what was right for America; it started being about what was right for companies that are in control.

  Immortal Technique

  Real, Years, America

  Source: www.gadflyonline.com

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• We just want to build a company that focuses on the love of Instagram.

  Kevin Systrom

  Want, Instagram

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Instagram is a media company. I think we're about visual media. I explain ourselves as a disruptive entertainment platform that enables communication through visual media. I don't think it's just photos. There's a reason we don't allow you to upload photos on the Web as albums. It's not about taking all these photos off your DSLR putting them into an album and sharing them with your family. It's not about that. It's about what are you up to right now out in the real world, how can you share that with everyone.

  Kevin Systrom

  Real, Communication, Thinking

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• He [Steve Jobs] had more of the future vision: We can bring this to everyone; we can start a company; we can sell it.

  Steve Wozniak

  Jobs, Vision, Sells

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I started passing out the schematics and the code listings for the computer, telling everyone here it is. It's small, it's simple, it's inexpensive: Build your own. No idea to start a company. Steve Jobs came by later and say, you know, people are interested. Why don't we start a company?

  Steve Wozniak

  Jobs, Simple, Ideas

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When you're designing and inventing the way I did, every minute of your life is put - every neuron in your brain into trying to think about the little code and how you can maybe have one less line of code and a little bit more straightforward from the beginning to the answer. And you don't have time to think about companies and products and how would I build this. So Steve Jobs and I were a very necessary pair.

  Steve Wozniak

  Jobs, Thinking, Design

  "A Chat with Computing Pioneer Steve Wozniak". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. September 29, 2006.

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• Neither one of us could be sure we'd get our money back on this investment, but we just wanted to have company of our own for once because we were best friends.

  Steve Wozniak

  Investment, Wanted

  "A Chat with Computing Pioneer Steve Wozniak". "Talk Of The Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. September 29, 2006.

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• I was kind of amazed because I first found out about blue boxes in an article in Esquire magazine labeled fiction. That article was the most truthful article I've ever read in my life... That article was so truthful, and it told about a mistake in the phone company that let you dial phone calls anywhere in the world. What an amazing thing to discover.

  Steve Wozniak

  Mistake, Phones, Blue

  "A Chat with Computing Pioneer Steve Wozniak". "Talk of the Nation" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. September 29, 2006.

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