Company Quotes - Page 34

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 don't think I was talking specifically about Steve Jobs. It was just a general philosophy about one person grows up and he's kind of managing companies and every day he's working making sure this is in place and that's in place.

  Steve Wozniak

  Jobs, Growing Up, Philosophy

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

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• Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Race, People

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.481

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• I have been given permission to announce that I and others from All My Children have been approached by the company Prospect Park, who bought AMC, with the intention to move it online.

  Cameron Mathison

  Children, Moving, Parks

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• You load 16 tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the company store.

  Merle Travis

  Soul, Debt, Another Day

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• So, it's pretty crazy. Look, we're bailing out Wall Street, we're bailing out banks, we're bailing out car companies. In fact, did you know there's a special box on your tax form this year you can check if you want a portion of your taxes to actually go to running the government?

  Jay Leno

  Running, Wall, Crazy

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• How friendly are your companies' first words? Just try this...start all conversations with customers using one of the following words or phrases: 'great!' 'no problem', 'you're in luck', 'that's my favorite problem'.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Luck, Trying, Friendly

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• The early part of my career was the 1990s, and I was living in New York working as an actor. It was the world I was in. A lot of companies had a great deal of money.

  Gaby Hoffmann

  New York, Careers, Actors

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• The best cover letters I've read are from people who have a passion for my company, and can make that passion come to life on a page. The letters that make me say, 'Yes! This person really gets it.' Because, at the end of the day, I want to hire people who already get it. Most hiring managers do.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Passion, People, The End Of The Day

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• Warren Buffett's company reportedly owes the IRS a billion dollars in back taxes. When he said he wasn't paying enough taxes, he wasn't kidding.

  Jay Leno

  Dollars, Irs, Warren Buffet

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• Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.

  Yves Behar

  Pay, Advertising

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• I would love to show my clevage and more body parts off but my record company won't let me.

  Britney Spears

  Records, Body, Let Me

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• There would have been no Beats deal without the Samsung deal. It showed the number one company the importance of connecting with culture.

  Kanye West

  Numbers, Culture, Cannes

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• When you see most companies get big, they want to shout about all they've done. But the consumer wants to know: 'What have you done for me lately?'

  Kevin Plank

  Done, Want, Bigs

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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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• There are those who build careers and companies just out of being popular on Instagram, but theres nothing behind them.

  Margot Robbie

  Careers, Instagram, Being Popular

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• I was a mime. Im not kidding. I went to Northwestern University and they have a mime company, so we did a lot of training and then a lot of mime shows around Chicago.

  Kerry Bishe

  Training, Chicago, Shows

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• Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it generally fails; it is a sort of insult on the company, and a restraint upon the speaker.

  Jonathan Swift

  Character, Support, Done

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• The raillery which is consistent with good-breeding is a gentle animadversion of some foible, which, while it raises the laugh in the rest of the company, doth not put the person rallied out of countenance, or expose him to shame or contempt. On the contrary, the jest should be so delicate that the object of it should be capable of joining in the mirth it occasions.

  Henry Fielding

  Joining In, Laughing, Mirth

  Henry Fielding, Thomas Roscoe (1851). “The Works of Henry Fielding: Complete in One Volume”, p.643

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• No matter where they are or who they're with, dogs are incapable of being anything but themselves. Show me a dog that puts on airs or laughs politely at an unfunny joke and I'll show you a human in a dog costume, possibly one owned and licensed by the Walt Disney Company.

  Meghan Daum

  Dog, Air, Laughing

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