Company Quotes - Page 38

• Residents of my district continue to stress to me that they want health care decisions to be made by patients and doctors, not by the government and insurance companies.

  Tim Walberg

  Stress, Doctors, Government

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• The company-as-a-machine model fits how people think about and operate conventional companies. And, of course, it fits how people think about changing conventional companies: You have a broken company, and you need to change it, to fix it.

  Peter Senge

  Thinking, People, Broken

  "Learning for a Change". Interview with Alan M. Webber, www.fastcompany.com. April 30, 1999.

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• Innovation requires resources to invest, and you can see many companies pulling back and going into an intense protective mode in a major extended period of financial distress.

  Peter Senge

  Innovation, Financial, Intense

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• In the Machine Age, the company itself became a machine - a machine for making money.

  Peter Senge

  Age, Machines, Making Money

  "Learning for a Change". Interview with Alan M. Webber, www.fastcompany.com. April 30, 1999.

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• But of course there is always a hamartia and yours is that oh, my God, even though you HAD FREAKING CANCER you give money to a company in exchange for the chance to acquire YET MORE CANCER.

  John Green

  Cancer, Giving, Chance

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.229, Penguin

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• We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial.

  Jennifer Niven

  Mind, Fleeting, Body

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• Konosuke Matsushita was a visionary entrepreneur. He started working very young as a teenager, and he eventually created Panasonic to become a truly global company.

  Tadashi Yanai

  Teenager, Entrepreneur, Visionaries

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• Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.

  Tadashi Yanai

  Individuality, Lacking

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• I have great respect for Jaypee Greens as a company that has produced a truly world class, 24-carat, championship golf course. I am happy to be associated with a company with such outstanding qualities.

  Kapil Dev

  Golf, Class, Quality

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• My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.

  Jeff Bezos

  Views, Long, Term

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• When a warrior has put an end to his routines, when he doesn't care anymore whether he has company or is alone, because he has heard the silent whisper of the spirit; then you can say that, truly, he has died. From that point on, even the simplest things in life become extraordinary for him.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Warrior, Things In Life, Care

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• I've built companies, I've created jobs, I know the frustration of small businesses with higher taxes.

  Rick Scott

  Jobs, Frustration, Small Business

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• The company that employed me strived only to serve up the cheapest fare that the customer would tolerate, churn it out as fast as possible, and charge as much as they could get away with. If it were possible to do so, the company would sell what all businesses of its kind dream about selling, creating that which all of our efforts were tacitly supposed to achieve: the ultimate product -- Nothing. And for this product they would command the ultimate price -- Everything.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Dream, Creating, Effort

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• It seems that it is only in the United States that an almost masochistic attack on the position of its own oil companies exists.

  John J. McCloy

  Money, Oil, United States

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• Tech stocks were the cubic zirconium of the market. They looked good and were sexy, but they just were a way for the company selling them to make money. That's always going to be transient in terms of the stock market. What's real is that companies have to compete. Technology used well is a great tool to enable that if only because most companies dont use technologies well.

  Mark Cuban

  Sexy, Real, Technology

  "Online Extra: Mark Cuban: Watch Out for 'Ultrabroadband'". Interview with Peter Elstrom, www.bloomberg.com. August 25, 2003.

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• In every company, differentiation is never more important than it is in times of trouble, and that's the time when everyone tends to go to the well and equalize rather than differentiate.

  Jack Welch

  Important, Differentiation, Trouble

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• The biggest opportunity for big companies has come by far in the digitization of internal processes.

  Jack Welch

  Opportunity, Process, Bigs

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• I believe that in any initiative, you can't have a flavor of the month. When you believe something is profound in a company, you can not be a logical leader. You have to go to the lunatic fringe. There is no way that logic is what you need to change people.

  Jack Welch

  Believe, Flavor Of The Month, People

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• No one is doing something in your business - getting a sale, having a key customer, working on an R&D project - doing anything that's more important than something you say is going to change the company.

  Jack Welch

  Keys, Important, Projects

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• I gave a talk on gender stuff at Facebook one morning and a man didn't come. It was optional; he didn't have to come. But he sent a note saying, "I missed your meeting because I drove my kids to school so my wife could do something else. Thank you for making that possible." I think that employee is a loyal employee for Facebook and I think more companies should want that kind of loyalty.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Loyalty, Morning, School

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• You'd better have the technology knowledge. I really urge you not to think you can start a whole company and business with just ideas on paper, because you'll end up owning so few of those ideas.

  Steve Wozniak

  Technology, Thinking, Ideas

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• You should stay closely connected to the technology when you start your company.

  Steve Wozniak

  Technology, Should, Connected

  "How Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Gets Things Done". Interview with Kevin Purdy, lifehacker.com. April 22, 2009.

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• Apple is the only company in the world that has all of that under one roof. We can invent a complete a solution that works - and take responsibility for it.

  Steve Jobs

  Responsibility, Apples, World

  "Online Extra: Steve Jobs: 'It Feels Good'". Interview with Peter Burrows, www.bloomberg.com. February 2, 2004.

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• Most Internet business theorists are really looking at preserving the necks of giant, Fortune 500 companies, rather than promoting the digital, peer-to-peer economy that actually wants to happen.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Giants, Peers, Want

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I wouldn't mind being taller, because when I'm in the company of people who are absurdly tall, there's something about them that I can't help admiring.

  Steve Albini

  People, Mind, Helping

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, music.avclub.com. June 14, 2000.

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