Company Quotes - Page 40

• Were the only major company in the U.S. that is solely in the professional beauty industry. We promised hairdressers when we started that we would stay with them. If I went retail tomorrow then we would be four times our size overnight, but Im going to be the one guy who kept his word.

  John Paul DeJoria

  Guy, Would Be, Retail

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• When a company creates a product that directly or indirectly adversely impacts the health of people, that product must be regulated. The process by which its created must be regulated. No company has the right to injure people. No company.

  Kenneth C. Griffin

  Impact, People, Process

  "HEDGE-FUND GOD KEN GRIFFIN: Our Government Is Ruining Our Country--That's Why I'm Giving Millions To Mitt Romney And The Koch Brothers" by Melissa Harris, www.businessinsider.com. March 10, 2012.

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• Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders.

  Bill Gross

  Return, Equity, Expenses

  "In His Best Letter In A Long Time, Bill Gross Explains Why Stocks Are Going To Be Horrible Investments" by Joe Weisenthal, www.businessinsider.com. July 31, 2012.

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• To operate a company of the size of Sears Holdings or Wal-Mart or Target or Home Depot or Lowes, you need a combination of skills, and each of those skills needs to be sufficiently strong.

  Edward Lampert

  Strong, Home, Skills

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• When companies fail, or fail to grow, it's almost always because they don't invest in the people, the systems, and the processes they need.

  Howard Schultz

  People, Needs, Failing

  Howard Schultz, Dori Jones Yang (1997). “Pour your heart into it: how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time”

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• One of the myths about the Internet of Things is that companies have all the data they need, but their real challenge is making sense of it. In reality, the cost of collecting some kinds of data remains too high, the quality of the data isn't always good enough, and it remains difficult to integrate multiple data sources.

  Chris Murphy

  Real, Data, Challenges

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• I adore the company of other writers because they are so often lively minds and, frequently, blazingly funny. And of course, we get each other in a unique way.

  Scott Turow

  Unique, Mind, Way

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• Learning how to interact with customers is something that anyone starting any business must master. It's an amazing opportunity to be able to learn the ropes at an established company and then employ your expertise at your own company.

  Marc Benioff

  Opportunity, Amazing Opportunities, Rope

  "Salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff: ‘Many CEOs are afraid to get too personal’". Interview with Antony Ha, venturebeat.com. October 30, 2009.

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• I would love to travel around the world working for a travel company taking students abroad on cultural immersion trips.

  Karen Russell

  World, Students, Immersion

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• I learned my first lesson at the Walt Disney Company about not being able to trust my associates.

  Michael Ovitz

  Lessons, Able, Firsts

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• The rates of soda consumption in our poorest communities cannot be explained by individual consumer preferences alone, but rather are linked to broader issues of access and affordability of healthy foods in low-income neighborhoods, and to the marketing efforts of soda companies themselves.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Issues, Effort, Community

  "NYC’s SNAP Sugary Beverage Ban Is the Right Idea" by Geoffrey Canada, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2011.

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• Being part of a team helped me so much. I know the fact that there was a man in the room with me all those years made the medicine go down. I had made the companies money. I didn't have to start, like a lot of women, from ground zero. My path was not the same as a woman starting out by herself.

  Nancy Meyers

  Zero, Team, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.

  Nancy Meyers

  Struggle, Philadelphia, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The key to making money in angel investing is saying no. You meet with 100 companies and say no to 99 of them.

  Kevin Rose

  Angel, Keys, Investing

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• Italy is famous for fashion, food, Ferrari, and furniture - furniture was a segment where the companies in the high end are all small.

  Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

  Fashion, Ferrari, Furniture

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• Whether you're an entrepreneur, a small business, or a Fortune 500 company, great marketing is all about telling your story in such a way that it compels people to buy what you are selling. That's a constant. What's always in flux, especially in this noisy, mobile world, is how, when, and where the story gets told, and even who gets to tell all of it.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  People, Entrepreneur, Marketing

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• While companies were getting comfy cozy with the idea of being on social media platforms, social media transcended those platforms, and few businesses have followed.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Media, Ideas, Cozy

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• No matter who you are or what kind of company or organization you work for, your number-one job is to tell your story to the consumer wherever they are, and preferably at the moment they are deciding to make a purchase.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Jobs, Organization, Numbers

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• All things being equal, I think people would still prefer to do business with their hometown companies. That's true in America, that's true in China, that's true in Germany.

  Bill Ford

  Thinking, America, People

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• The United States lived on borrowed money for too long, inflating its financial sector unnecessarily and neglecting its small and mid-sized industrial companies.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Long, United States, Financial

  "Interview With German Finance Minister Schauble: 'The US Has Lived on Borrowed Money for Too Long'". Interview with Michael Sauga and Peter Muller, www.spiegel.de. November 8, 2010.

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• Marketing automation is the technology that propels your business into a new era of relationship based marketing with quantifiable results. When powerful technology meets effective implementation and internal process management, your company will soon find itself on a journey that leads to new heights of business success.

  Jon Miller

  Powerful, Technology, Journey

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• I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.

  Irene Rosenfeld

  Hate, Opportunity, People

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• This group came on stage, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and this whirling dervish, this electrifying white soul singer was so riveting. And I'm seeing this and I said, 'My God, this is a musical revolution.'

  Clive Davis

  Brother, White, Soul

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• Im lucky that its about fashion and perfume and cosmetics. If my father had owned a tire company, I dont know what I would have done.

  Delphine Arnault

  Fashion, Father, Cosmetics

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• Uniqlo as a company has always developed new fabrics and is always trying to be innovative. The design is simple, so the fabric is important.

  Nicola Formichetti

  Simple, Always Trying, Design

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