Company Quotes

I've never sold my company or products.

Nobody's irreplaceable, including me. I think for too long we've had a cult of personality in this company and in this industry, and frankly, I'd like to see that diminish.

Companies that get confused, that think their goal is revenue or stock price or something. You have to focus on the things that lead to those.

If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert.

The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, is to do an outstanding job with information.

the best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize the company

Look, you need technical skills to run a company.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

I am not going to be dictated to by fans, certainly. I am dictated enough to by my record company to last me a million years.

Go where your customers take you! For example, did you know that Sony's first product was a rice cooker? Since abandoning the rice cooker, it has merely managed to become the world's biggest consumer electronics company.

I started out as a receptionist. I typed, I filed, I answered the phones for a little nine-person company.

Harley-Davidson is the finest company in the world.

Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven't belonged to any company or any system. It isn't easy to live like this in Japan.

It doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is - what matters is its relative 'share of customer value' in the final product or solution, and its cost of producing that value.

The sales department isn’t the whole company, but the whole company better be the sales department.

Find better company, find company of people better than yourself so you be surrounded with those best in character and so you may learn something.

Anyone who wants to be an entrepreneur like someone else is actually looking in the wrong direction. You don't look out for inspiration, you look in. You have to ask yourself how can I be better today, at solving the problem I am trying to solve for my company. I wouldn't encourage anyone to be like me. Just be like you.

I like the opportunity to travel the world and work in close company with other people.

Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can't tell you whether someone will fit into a company's culture.

The future lies with those companies who see the poor as their customers.

The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world-not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.

The company you keep at death is, of all things, most dependent on chance.

The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.

Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.

I never learned the rules in the first place. To change the game is at the heart of what Virgin stands for, so the company culture has always been: "Don't sweat it: rules were meant to be broken."

If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.

A company in which anyone is afraid to speak up, to differ, to be daring and original, is closing the coffin door on itself.

You can't always do that which you can do in your sleep. That doesn't fulfill an artist. You're looking for places where you can grow, in some way, whether it's a large way or a small way. I want to grow as an artist, as a person and as a woman. I want to enjoy myself and my life and the company that I'm keeping. I want to bring something to the table that's different than anything else would bring, but that has its place and value, and then keep moving.

Unusually rapid growth cannot keep up forever; when a company has already registered a brilliant expansion, its very increase in size makes a repetition of its achievement more difficult.

We are looking to the FTC to see whether companies that break their promises and collect personal information in an unfair and deceptive manner will be held accountable.

A brand is essentially a container for a customer’s complete experience with the product or company.

Every great company, brand, career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little.

Eat together and not separately, for the blessing is associated with the company.

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary.

Somebody asked me 'what's the job of a CEO', and there's a number of things a CEO does. What you mostly do is articulate the vision, develop the strategy, and you gotta hire people to fit the culture. If you do those three things, you basically have a company. And that company will hopefully be successful, if you have the right vision, the right strategy, and good people.

People invest in companies in order to get a share of the profit that company will make. If the Government increases its share of the profits, potential profits, at the expense of the owners of the company, the shareholders, then that makes investment in that company less attractive.

Now, the United States' response, the western response to this is a continuation of the appeasement that was started back in the '50s with Eisenhower when Iran seized western oil companies. The Americans, the British, and the Israelis, as I remember, launched an attack to try to reclaim it and - or at least the British and the Israelis did and Eisenhower vetoed it.

The sports apparel industry was dominated by the big shoe companies. But there was a void in apparel and I decided to fill it.

I love animals. When I was young, I had two St. Bernards, I still have a dog, I have a lot of cats in my company. My wife always says, "You spend a lot of money on animals. More than even me!"

There are so many angles to follow up: government incompetence, sophisticated charity scams, how insurance companies treat victims, construction of the levees, who will start ripping off the billions of dollars available in new contracts. Every single one of these stories is going to be a big one.

Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.

From coast to coast, the FBI and Securities and Exchange Commission have ensnared people not only at hedge funds, but at technology and pharmaceutical companies, consulting and law firms, government agencies, and even a major stock exchange.

Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it.

A real artist may create his picture in a lonely desert... gods look over his shoulder; he creates in their company. What does he care whether or not anybody admires his picture?

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

The saddest human experience is to view alone the scenes one has viewed through other eyes - to walk solitary where one has walked in company - to have its particular barbed shaft aimed at one from every stick and stone that mark familiar ways.