Company Quotes - Page 37

• Record company execs eat their young, I swear to God.

  Linda Barnes

  Music, Swear To God, Records

  Linda Barnes (2015). “Steel Guitar”, p.56, Open Road Media

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• Whether you're moving to a new company or a new department within your current organization, I believe you'll end up miles ahead if you shop for a boss, not a position. You may secure the greatest job in the world, but a miserable boss will turn gold into ashes. ... In many ways, your boss may be more important than the job.

  Pat Heim

  Jobs, Work, Believe

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• A constant tension exists between an individual's interests, personal needs, and skills, and what the organization requires of her. We've all asked ourselves, How much of my own agenda should I sacrifice in order to help the rest of the staff meet the company's goals?

  Pat Heim

  Sacrifice, Skills, Organization

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• My father has a manufacturing company in Kentucky and he's an electrical engineer. A brilliant man. A brilliant businessman. So he understands the business aspects of my business very well. My dad and I always communicate when I have to negotiate a deal.

  Laura Bell Bundy

  Dad, Father, Men

  "PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER With Laura Bell Bundy". Interview with Robert Simonson, www.playbill.com. March 13, 2007.

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• I have an odd fetish with nails. I was always doing beauty blogs about nails, and it would be on Fridays called Fridays Fingertip Fetish. It became so popular that a nail polish company approached me, and Fingertip Fetish was born.

  Adrienne Bailon

  Friday, Nails, Would Be

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• Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.

  Bill McKibben

  Taken, Men, Years

  "Payola for the Most Profitable Corporations in History" by Bill McKibben, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2012.

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• At the (record company) meeting Paul just kept mithering on about what we were going to do, so in the end I just said, 'I think you're daft. I want a divorce.'

  John Lennon

  Music, Divorce, Thinking

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• I can tell you, Massachusetts, fastest growing sector of our economy is clean energy and energy efficiency companies. And they're growing faster than any other sector.

  John F. Kerry

  Politics, Energy, Massachusetts

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• No company has a permanent consumer franchise. No one has the only game in town. The never-ending cycle of destruction and change inherent in a capitalist economy always provides new opportunities for those with determination, goals and concentration.

  Harvey Mackay

  Determination, Opportunity, Service Culture

  Harvey Mackay (1996). “Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, & Outnegotiate Your Competition”, Ballantine Books

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• ... Member Countries shall take necessary action and/or shall establish negotiations, individually or in groups, with the oil companies with a view to adopting ways and means to offset any adverse effects on the per barrel real income of Member Countries resulting from the international monetary developments as of 15th August 1971.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Country, Real, Mean

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• Every person - whether Greek or Barbarian - who is in training for wisdom, leading a blameless, irreproachable life, chooses neither to commit injustice nor return it unto others, but to avoid the company of busybodies, and hold in contempt the places where they spend their time - courts, councils, marketplaces, assemblies - in short, every kind of meeting or reunion of thoughtless people. ... People such as these, who find their joy in virtue, celebrate a festival their whole life long.

  Pierre Hadot

  Long, People, Joy

  "La Philosophie comme manière de vivre: Entretiens avec Jeannie Carlier et Arnold I. Davidson" by Pierre Hadot, Jeannie Carlier, Arnold I. Davidson, Paris: Albin Michel, translated by Michael Chase, (p. 264), 2001.

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• Money has to undergo a metamorphosis again, it has to relinquish its role in the market economy and engage in an economy of capacities. Then we would be concerned with human creative productivity. And we would come full circle, since each human being can then act within his company as co-creator of the future, can - in full dignity - contribute to shaping this future.

  Joseph Beuys

  Circles, Creative, Would Be

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• I do sometimes watch 'Dr. Who' and while the stories barely make sense, if at all, the doctor is such great company I don't care.

  John Shirley

  Doctors, Drs, Watches

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• Some said he couldn't take on the insurance companies that were ripping us off. But President Obama made the tough and right call to save lives, save Medicare and ensure no one goes broke just because they get sick.

  Harry Reid

  Sick, President, Tough

  Harry Reid's speech at the Democratic National Convention, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• UPS stands as an example of a company thats already doing great things.

  Steven Horsford

  Example, Great Things

  "Nevada congressman really delivers", www.politico.com. February 23, 2014.

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• Managing brands is going to be more and more about trying to manage everything that your company does.

  Lee Clow

  Trying, Doe, Brands

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• Almost any mistake you can make in running a company, I've probably made

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Running, Mistake, Made

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  I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine.

  Dylan Thomas

  Feelings, Enemy, Needs

  Dylan Thomas (1995). “Dylan Thomas, the complete screenplays”

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• Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.

  Satya Nadella

  Clouds, Microsoft, World

  "Microsoft Needs a Real Plan, Not a Memo" by Mat Honan, www.wired.com. July 11, 2014.

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• The only big companies that succeed will be those that obsolete their own products before somebody else does.

  Bill Gates

  Doe, Succeed, Obsolete

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• Like people including Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have predicted, I agree that the future is scary and very bad for people. If we build these devices to take care of everything for us, eventually they'll think faster than us and they'll get rid of the slow humans to run companies more efficiently.

  Steve Wozniak

  Running, Thinking, People

  "Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak on the Apple Watch, electric cars and the surpassing of humanity". Interview with Paul Smith, www.afr.com. March 23, 2015.

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• How exciting is it to come to work if the best you can do is trounce some other company that does roughly the same thing?

  Larry Page

  Doe, Exciting, Can Do

  "Google’s Larry Page on Why Moon Shots Matter". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. January 17, 20113.

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• The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsofts business practices.

  Orrin Hatch

  Doors, Practice, Microsoft

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• In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.

  Kage Baker

  Waiting, Corporations, Film

  Kage Baker (2012). “Ancient Rockets: Treasures and Train Wrecks of the Silent Screen”, p.29, Tachyon Publications

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• My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.

  Rachel Zoe

  Dad, Father, Successful

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