Company Quotes - Page 31

• People who get higher pay are more willing to relocate--especially to undesirable locations at the company's behest... A corporate secretary may change companies in the same town; a corporate executive is more likely to change towns with the same company. A talented corporate secretary sees an invitation to relocate as an invitation; a future corporate executive sees an invitation to relocate as an opportunity--and an obligation.

  Warren Farrell

  Opportunity, People, Getting High

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• By giving women training to sue a company for a 'hostile environment' if someone tells a dirty joke, we are training women to run to the Government as Substitute Husband (or Father). This gets companies to fear women, but not to respect women. The best preparation we can give women to succeed in the workplace is the preparation to overcome barriers rather than to sue: successful people don't sue, they succeed.

  Warren Farrell

  Running, Husband, Father

  Warren Farrell (1993). “The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex”

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• Excessively precise economic analysis can lead to assessing everything in terms of its easily measurable melt value - the value that thieves get from stealing copper wiring from isolated houses, that vandals got from tearing down Greek temples for the lead joints holding the marble blocks together, that shortsighted timber companies get from liquidating their forests. The standard to insist on is live value. What is something worth when it's working?

  Stewart Brand

  Block, House, Greek

  "Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto". Book by Stewart Brand, 2009.

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• In a democracy it is ultimately for us, the citizens, to judge where to place the balance between security and privacy, safety and liberty. It's our lives and liberties that are threatened, not only by terrorism but also by massive depredations of our privacy in the name of counter-terrorism. If those companies from which governments actually take most of our intimate details want to show that they are still on the side of the angels, they had better join this struggle for transparency too.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Struggle, Angel, Names

  "If Big Brother came back, he'd be a public-private partnership". www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2013.

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• In the United States businessmen often do not trust their colleagues. If you trust your colleague today, he may be your competitor tomorrow, because people frequently move from one company to another.

  Akio Morita

  Moving, People, May

  "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 175), 1986.

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• You don't explain to the janitorial staff how your company is a part of a sinister organization with goals of global infiltration and control. You just tell them to clean the floor.

  Jim Butcher

  Organization, Goal, Clean

  Jim Butcher (2010). “Changes: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.32, Penguin

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• The Obama administration took rapid and decisive action to restructure GM and Chrysler. Within a fairly short period of time these companies were working effectively again.

  Austin Ligon

  Administration, Action, Chrysler

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• While Mitt Romney was at Bain Capital, almost one out of every four companies they were involved with went bankrupt or went out of business.

  John Brabender

  Four, Involved, Romney

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• We see a lot of startup companies, people that have a home-based office, they've been working out of their basement for two or three years, and now their basement or kids cannot accommodate them any longer.

  Nancy Fox

  Home, Kids, Years

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• Big money seeks out the company of its own, for purposes of reproduction.

  Joe Haldeman

  Purpose, Bigs, Reproduction

  Joe Haldeman (2006). “A Separate War and Other Stories”, p.108, Penguin

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• Advertising is the best insurance that you can take out on your business. You can buy fire insurance on your stock of goods, but no company will issue a policy covering your business, the good will as they sometimes call it. You must insure yourself, and the best way to do it is by advertising. Good advertising kept up for a number of years gives you something that no fire can take away.

  Frank Farrington

  Fire, Years, Numbers

  Frank Farrington (1910). “Retail Advertising: Complete”

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• I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I'm glad of. It made me perfectly happy with my own company and perhaps was good conditioning for the protracted solitude of writing books as slowly as I do.

  Alan Hollinghurst

  Children, Book, Writing

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• Strong ethics keep corporations healthy . Poor ethics make companies sick. Values are the immune system of every organisation.

  Patrick Dixon

  Strong, Sick, Healthy

  "Building a Better Business". Book by Patrick Dixon, 2005.

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