Company Quotes - Page 36

• I'm really inspired to build a billion-dollar company. The hardest part is building the vehicle to get you there.

  Robert Herjavec

  Dollars, Inspired, Building

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• I never dreamed I could build a $100 million company. I just happened to build a $1 million company that became a $5 million company, and so on.

  Robert Herjavec

  Happened, Millions

  "Shark Tank's Accidental Entrepreneur: Robert Herjavec". Interview with Christine Lagorio-Chafkin, www.inc.com. June 11, 2012.

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• Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when he hears so many new tones, all musical, sees in each person original manners, which have a proper and peculiar charm, and reads new expressions of face. He perceives that nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building, if the soul will build thereon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Expression, Soul, Individuality

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2447, Delphi Classics

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• Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best know how to prize them the most. But no company is far preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Society, Vices, Disease

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.128

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• To make HP a great company once again, we need more than competitive costs and operational efficiency. We're in the process of assessing and refining our growth strategy, and the same concepts that were behind our operational changes will be at work here: simplicity, focus, alignment, and execution.

  Bill Vaughan

  Focus, Simplicity, Growth

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• He that dies without the company of good men puts not himselfe into a good way.

  George Herbert

  Men, Good Man, Way

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.364

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• Keep not ill men company, lest you increase the number.

  George Herbert

  Men, Numbers, Increase

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.301

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• Assume the worst. About everybody. But don't let this poisoned outlook affect your job performance. Let it all roll off your back. Ignore it. Be amused by what you see and suspect. Just because someone you work with is a miserable, treacherous, self-serving, capricious and corrupt asshole shouldn't prevent you from enjoying their company, working with them or finding them entertaining.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Jobs, Self, Assuming

  Anthony Bourdain (2011). “Tony Bourdain boxset: Kitchen Confidential & Medium Raw”, p.276, A&C Black

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• My mother was a secretary that elevated herself to having her own international company, my father elevated himself to an NBA player and perennial all-star. So I learned from my parents that it's about hard work, about both of them getting their education, putting people first and leading a life of integrity.

  Brian J. White

  Mother, Stars, Father

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• When I was 18 years old I went to Shakespeare Company, the school, and I wrote a poem about my leaves - I felt like a tree that had no leaves. That is the life at 18.

  Alicia Silverstone

  School, Years, Tree

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• Pro wrestling was there, and I was good at it, thank God. I started getting a lot of offers, but unfortunately, at WWE I was under a tight leash. I think it had a lot to do with The Rock making the transition, and me possibly being the next guy - you know, the company didnt want to lose another top performer.

  Kurt Angle

  Wrestling, Thinking, Wwe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a romantic and will only marry for love where there's respect and compatibility. I'd like to be with someone if the right person came along. I really like male company. I like the male mind.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Mind, Males, Persons

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• I did my first show when I was five and I was the King of the Oompa Loompas in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The kids theater company, I was the youngest one, so there wasnt a part for me, so they made me the king of the Oompa Loompas.

  Max Schneider

  Kings, Kids, Chocolate

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• I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.

  E. G. Marshall

  Watches, Silent, Used

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• Adult actors are really childish, and thats nice to be around when youre a kid. So the big reason I wanted to be an actor was I really enjoyed actors company - which probably makes me about as shallow as a puddle. But it could be worse. I could be working for a living.

  Jack Davenport

  Nice, Kids, Adults

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I hope more people will ask diamond companies to continue changing the way they do business in Africa.

  Djimon Hounsou

  People, Way, Diamond

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If anything, Calvin Klein is the iconic company in terms of fashion. They do have iconic images for their campaigns.

  Djimon Hounsou

  Fashion, Campaigns, Term

  "Djimon Hounsou ‘Never Back Down’". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. March 11, 2008.

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• I switched to painting with my left hand to be in better company.

  Helen Van Wyk

  Hands, Left Hand, Painting

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• An exercise of moral imagination helps companies further goals of its members.

  Ted Malloch

  Exercise, Imagination, Goal

  "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Ted Malloch, 2011.

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• In the new conditions created by the global economy, the information revolution and the growth of smart technologies, it is more necessary than ever for all companies to be guided by their rich spiritual inheritance, as spiritual enterprises.

  Ted Malloch

  Spiritual, Smart, Technology

  "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Ted Malloch, 2011.

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• You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself. (Especially code from companies that employ people like me.) No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.

  Kenneth P. Thompson

  People, Levels, Source

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• dealing with a counter clerk at the phone company who had all the customer service skills of a homicidal sociopath on work release.

  Jasmine Cresswell

  Phones, Skills, Clerks

  Jasmine Cresswell (2001). “The Conspiracy”, Mira Books

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• In the biggest companies, seek out the most useless positions: those in consultancy, appraisal, research, and study. The more useless your position, the less possible it will be to assess your 'contribution to the firm's assets.

  Corinne Maier

  Business, Work, Research

  Corinne Maier (2007). “Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay”, p.65, Vintage

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• What you do is ultimately pointless. You could be replaced any day of the week with the first moron who walks in the door. So work as little as possible, and spend a little time (not too much, though) 'selling yourself' and 'networking' so that you will have backup and will be untouchable (and untouched) the next time the company is restructured.

  Corinne Maier

  Business, Work, Doors

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• although the typist has disappeared, her work has not: now you do it yourself. ... Since most companies have reduced the managerial ranks, there are fewer and fewer bosses, so you become a manger, his boss, and his secretary all rolled into one.

  Corinne Maier

  Business, Work, Boss

  Corinne Maier (2007). “Bonjour Laziness: Why Hard Work Doesn't Pay”, p.57, Vintage

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