Company Quotes - Page 3

• Your personal core values define who you are, and a company's core values ultimately define the company's character and brand. For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.

  Tony Hsieh

  Character, Destiny, Organization

  Tony Hsieh (2010). “Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose”, p.124, Hachette UK

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• Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.

  Aimee Bender

  Light, Yellow, Comfort

  Aimee Bender (2011). “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”, p.122, Random House

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• Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Love, Being Alone, Men

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 40, 1799.

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• I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already.

  Veronica Roth

  Loneliness, Lost Everything, Tobias

  "Allegiant". Book by Veronica Roth, 2013.

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• Countries with more gender equality have better economic growth. Companies with more women leaders perform better. Peace agreements that include women are more durable. Parliaments with more women enact more legislation on key social issues such as health, education, anti-discrimination and child support. The evidence is clear: equality for women means progress for all.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Country, Children, Mean

  "This #WomensEqualityDay, Remember What Your Vote Means" by Charleta B. Tavares, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2016.

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• To the economically illiterate, if some company makes a million dollars in profit, this means that their products cost a million dollars more than they would have without profits. It never occurs to such people that these products might cost several million dollars more without the incentives to be efficient created by the prospect of profits.

  Thomas Sowell

  Mean, People, Dollars

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• Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it.

  Elon Musk

  Technology, Government, Advancement

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The country that owns green, that dominates that industry, is going to have the most energy security, national security, economic security, competitive companies, healthy population and, most of all, global respect.

  Thomas Friedman

  Country, Healthy, Energy

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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.

  Steve Jobs

  Business, Mean, Technology

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

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• You can learn something about a person by the company she keeps.

  Sam Harris

  Persons

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• Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in this country that supposedly you can't sit down and have dinner and enjoy another person's company if you don't have the same beliefs. It's ridiculous.

  Patricia Heaton

  Country, Funny Things, Political

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• I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company.

  Elon Musk

  Moving, Hard Work, Technology

  "Master Of Creative Disruption". Interview with Logan Ward, www.popularmechanics.co.za. December 1, 2012.

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• The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.

  Elon Musk

  Smart, Thinking, People

  "Elon Musk’s Mission to Mars". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. October 21, 2012.

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• I can think of no one more relevant and credible in the hip-hop community to build upon Def Jam's fantastic legacy and move the company into its next groundbreaking era.

  Jay-Z

  Moving, Thinking, Hip Hop

  "Jay-Z Named President of Def Jam Records". www.foxnews.com. December 09, 2004.

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• Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.

  Paul Cezanne

  Good Company, Louvre

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• Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Intellectual, Venture, Invention

  "Trolling a 'patent troll' with ... trolls" by Helen A.S. Popkin and Helen A.S. Popkin, www.today.com. November 24, 2011.

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• You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

  Samuel Johnson

  Daughter, Mother, Done

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”, p.5

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• I think most of the dramatic new ideas come from little companies that then grow big.

  Jaron Lanier

  Thinking, Ideas, Littles

  "The Innovation Question". Interview with Margaret Warner, www.pbs.org. June 8, 2000.

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• Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Impact, Profound, Achievement

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• Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base

  Gavin Newsom

  Book, Pressure, Small Business

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• I think that maybe in every company today there is always at least one person who is going crazy slowly.

  Joseph Heller

  Business, Crazy, Work

  Joseph Heller (1974). “Something Happened”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Thinking, Ideas, Together

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.74

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• It's true, I had hacked into a lot of companies, and took copies of the source code to analyze it for security bugs. If I could locate security bugs, I could become better at hacking into their systems. It was all towards becoming a better hacker.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Hacking, Bugs, Becoming

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• I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

  Emily Bronte

  Country, Men, Solitude

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.387, Penguin

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• As an introvert, you can be your own best friend or your worst enemy. The good news is we generally like our own company, a quality that extroverts often envy. We find comfort in solitude and know how to soothe ourselves.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Worst Enemy, Envy, Solitude

  Laurie A Helgoe (2013). “Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength”, p.194, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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