Company Quotes - Page 39

• I want to do more drama. Comedy is the path of least resistance for my company. People know we can do them. People know they get a good response. People want to make them. Who am I to push up against that?

  Ice Cube

  Drama, People, Want

  Source: movieweb.com

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• A lot of people are listening and most people believe global warming is a problem and they'd like to see it addressed. But governments and the biggest companies in the world don't want to deal with it like they didn't want to deal with the fact that tobacco causes cancer.

  John H Richardson

  Cancer, Believe, Government

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Every now and then I love to invest in a company that may not set the world on fire, but has the chance to establish itself, create jobs and have a positive impact.

  Mark Cuban

  Jobs, Fire, Impact

  Interview with Maria Bartiromo, www.usatoday.com. November 16, 2013.

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• Like IBM, the company [Microsoft] seems to have been spooked by the federal antitrust action against it and became increasingly sclerotic and less inventive.

  Stephen Manes

  Microsoft, Action, Ibm

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Microsoft is no longer thought of as the company where the smartest people want to work.

  Stephen Manes

  People, Want, Microsoft

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• We always say about Hollywood that it's a company town and it's sort of is. It's like in Washington, they say, you know, the company is the government.

  Murray Horwitz

  Government, Hollywood, Towns

  "The 'Next Big Thing' at the Box Office". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 2, 2008.

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• Whether or not [the company] maximizes resources, that's the job of the leader. How do I get greater results using less resources? That requires an enormous psychology when the economy is changing, the technology is changing, and the competition is worldwide.

  Tony Robbins

  Jobs, Technology, Leader

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I think business needs to have a heart and to have a heart a company must be more than just a moneymaking machine.

  Richard Branson

  Heart, Thinking, Needs

  "Screw Business as Usual: an interview with Sir Richard Branson". Interview with Todd Miller, blog.sfgate.com. January 9, 2012.

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• As an entrepreneur, you've got to protect against the company going bust. And as an adventurer, you've got to protect against losing your life. It's even more important as an adventurer to get it right.

  Richard Branson

  Entrepreneur, Important, Losing

  "Richard Branson on Being Richard Branson". Interview with Rod Kurtz, www.entrepreneur.com. December 17, 2012.

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• Government investment unlocks a huge amount of private sector activity, but the basic research that we put into IT work that led to the Internet and lots of great companies and jobs, the basic work we put into the health care sector, where it's over $30 billion a year in R&D that led the biotech and pharma jobs. And it creates jobs and it creates new technologies that will be productized. But the government has to prime the pump here. The basic ideas, as in those other industries, start with government investment.

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, Technology, Government

  "Bill Gates On The Future Of American Energy". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. June 13, 2010.

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• A visionary company is like a great work of art. Think of Michelangelo's scenes from Genesis on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel or his statue of David. Think of a great and enduring novel like Huckleberry Finn or Crime and Punishment. Think of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony or Shakespeare's Henry V. Think of a beautifully designed building, like the masterpieces of Frank Lloyd Wright or Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. You can't point to any one single item that makes the whole thing work; it's the entire work-all the pieces working together to create an overall effect-that leads to enduring greatness.

  John C. Maxwell

  Art, Greatness, Thinking

  John C. Maxwell (2003). “Thinking for a Change: 11 Ways Highly Successful People Approach Life and Work”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• There is no body will go to hell for company.

  George Herbert

  Body, Hell, Go To Hell

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.328

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• Microsoft is already the most powerful company on earth but you ain't seen nothing yet.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Powerful, Microsoft

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• For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of keeping company with God.

  Philip Yancey

  Prayer, Shopping, Way

  FaceBook post by Philip Yancey from Dec 27, 2013

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• Some years ago one oil company bought a fertilizer company, and every other major oil company practically ran out and bought a fertilizer company. And there was no more damned reason for all these oil companies to buy fertilizer companies, but they didn't know exactly what to do, and if Exxon was doing it, it was good enough for Mobil and vice versa.

  Charlie Munger

  Years, Oil, Vices

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• In the theater, when people hear that you're writing a play, they want to know what it's all about, whether there's a role for them. You write it fairly quickly, and it becomes a group activity before you're really ready to have company.

  Marsha Norman

  Writing, Play, People

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• As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.

  Alan Kay

  Years, Apples, Different

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• If you're running an engineering or finance company, all companies depend on ideas and ingenuity. I think the principles of creative leadership apply everywhere, whether it's an advertising company or whether you're running a hospital.

  Ken Robinson

  Running, Thinking, Engineering

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• America's companies are built to destroy creativity.

  Millard Drexler

  Creativity, America, Built

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• America is an unsolvable problem: a nation divided and deeply in hate with itself. If it was a startup, wed understand how unfixable the situation is; most of us would leave for a fresh start, and the company would fall apart. America is MySpace.

  Michael Arrington

  Hate, Fall, America

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• we have complaints that institutional dominance of the stock market has put 'the small investor at a disadvantage because he can't compete with the trust companies' huge resources, etc. The facts are quite the opposite. It may be that the institutions are better equipped than the individual to speculate in the market.But I am convinced that an individual investor with sound principles, and soundly advised, can do distinctly better over the long pull than large institutions.

  Benjamin Graham

  Opposites, Long, Sound

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• Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often, innovators with good, safe, jobs are unwilling to put their family's access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance.

  Eric Ries

  Jobs, Taken, Walking Away

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• When Enron collapsed, through court processes, thousands and thousands of emails came out that were internal, and it provided a window into how the whole company was managed. It was all the little decisions that supported the flagrant violations.

  Julian Assange

  Decision, Email, Littles

  Interview with Andy Greenberg, www.forbes.com. November 29, 2010.

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• Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit, and I suppose that this is neither innocent or praiseworthy. Of that lamentable company am I. Conversation after a time bores me, games tire me and my own thoughts, which we are told are the unfailing resource of a sensible man, have a tendency to run dry. Then I fly to my book as the opium-smoker to his pipe.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Running, Book, Men

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “Collected Short Stories”, p.11, Random House

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• I did something rather innovative that my competitors didn't like: I took out a full-page advertisement in the Yellow Pages that listed an office on the east side of Cincinnati, and another office on the west side, while every other heating/air-conditioning company had only one location and one phone number. I was the citywide company. In fact, our 'westside office' was just an answering service taking telephone message. From the start we appeared to be a big company.

  Kevin Harrington

  Air, Yellow, Numbers

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