Company Quotes - Page 28

• Wherever you may seek solitude, men will ferret you out and compel you to belong to their desperate company of oddfellows.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Solitude, Ferrets

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• Contrary to vulgar legend the lives of great ballerinas are not entirely given up to a few minutes of graceful movement every night followed by champagne drunk out of their toeshoes till dawn, in the company of financiers ... no, most of their time is spent in filthy rehearsal halls, inhaling dust, or else in class, daily, year in year out, practicing, practicing even after they are already prima ballerinas.

  Gore Vidal

  Night, Dust, Years

  Gore Vidal (2011). “Death in the Fifth Position”, p.77, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• The aggregate capital appears as the capital stock of all individual capitalists combined. This joint stock company has in common with many other stock companies that everyone knows what he puts in, but not what he will get out of it.

  Karl Marx

  Joints, Common, Individual

  Karl Marx, Samuel Moore, Edward Bibbins Aveling, Friedrich Engels (1961). “Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production”

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• Ideas are somewhat like babies - they are born small, immature, and shapeless. They are promise rather than fulfillment. In the innovative company executives do not say, "This is a damn-fool idea." Instead they ask, "What would be needed to make this embryonic, half-baked, foolish idea into something that makes sense, that is an opportunity for us?"

  Peter Drucker

  Baby, Opportunity, Ideas

  "The Frontiers of Management". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1986.

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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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• So I just always drew. But never took that as a career path. I ended up in the computer business, and found myself as the vice president of sales and marketing for a computer accessories company.

  Dan Povenmire

  Careers, Marketing, President

  Source: www.slate.com

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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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• The company is not and must never claim to be home, family, religion, life or fate for the individual. It must never interfere in his private life or his citizenship. He is tied to the company through a voluntary and cancellable employment contract, not through some mystical or indissoluble bond.

  Peter Drucker

  Home, Fate, Employment

  Peter Drucker (2012). “The Practice of Management”, p.336, Routledge

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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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• Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?

  Margaret Atwood

  Loneliness, Islands, Water

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• I think of the company advertising "Thought Processors" or the college pretending that learning BASIC suffices or at least helps, whereas the teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offence: it mutilates the mind beyond recovery.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Teaching, Recovery, College

  "The threats to computing science". Edsger Dijkstra remarks at ACM South Central Regional Conference, www.cs.utexas.edu. November 16-18, 1984.

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• I actually made a website called Y2 Combinator, which was the Y Combinator that starts Y Combinator clones. There's a very clear difference in the quality between the companies that come from YC and the companies that don't.

  Patrick Collison

  Differences, Quality, Made

  "For Stripe Cofounders, Y Combinator Supplies Far More Than Mentoring". Interview with Austin Carr, www.fastcompany.com. August 22, 2012.

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• We want the accursed foreclosure system wiped out.... We will stand by our homes and stay by our firesides by force if necessary, and we will not pay our debts to the loan-shark companies until the government pays its debts to us.

  Mary Elizabeth Lease

  Home, Government, Sharks

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• Companies must have a noble cause, and it's the leaders job to transform that noble cause into such an inspiring vision, that it will attract the most talented people in the world to want to join it.

  Steve Jobs

  Jobs, People, Leader

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• We are always in our own company.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honour. Those same men, when by base subjection and constraint they are brought under and kept down, turn aside from that noble disposition, by which they formerly were inclined to virtue, to shake off and break that bond of servitude, wherein they are so tyrannously enslaved; for it is agreeable with the nature of man to long after things forbidden, and to desire what is denied us.

  Francois Rabelais

  Men, Long, Honor

  "Gargantua (The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel, Book II)". Book by Francois Rabelais, 1534.

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• The problem with the Internet startup craze isn’t that too many people are starting companies; it’s that too many people aren’t sticking with it.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, People, Problem

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.69, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Who can object to a monopoly when any new company, if it is built around a scientific nucleus, can create a new monopoly of its own by creating a wholly new field?

  Edwin Land

  Creating, Nucleus, Fields

  "The Future of Industrial Research : Papers and Discussion" edited by Thomas Midgley, 1945.

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• But maybe because the dot-com world gives people positions at a younger age, and many women are prominent in this business, it will help change the view about who can run big companies.

  Christie Hefner

  Running, Views, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.

  Ed Miliband

  Owners, Workers, Customers

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• There are various methods by which you may achieve ignominy and shame. By murdering a large and respected family in cold blood and afterward depositing their bodies in the water companies' reservoir, you will gain much unpopularity in the neighborhood of your crime, and even robbing a church will get you cordially disliked, especially by the vicar. But if you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human creature can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Mother, Baby, Blood

  Jerome K. Jerome (2015). “Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.71, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I'm very happy that I have an Italian version, a French version, and then I have my own company, but I'm not obsessed by my name. Some people are, "Oh, my name," but I couldn't care less about my name. What I like is the job. The ego trip of that comes later.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Jobs, Italian, Names

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

  Peter Diamandis

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• When someone is made the head of an office in the Ogilvy & Mather chain, I send him a Matrioshka doll from Gorky. If he has the curiosity to open it, and keep opening it until he comes to the inside of the smallest doll, he finds this message: If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

  David Ogilvy

  Office, People, Curiosity

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• I hated the company of other children. I wanted to be a grownup person, to be taken seriously. I hated the idea of childhood; I thought it was a moment of endless stupidity.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Children, Taken, Ideas

  "In the Now". Interview with John Colapinto, www.newyorker.com. March 19, 2007.

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