Company Quotes: Inspiring Insights for Success

"A company is only as good as the people it keeps"

Mary Kay Ash, Businesswoman

"Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

"Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it"

Russell Baker, Journalist

"If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

"Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?"

J. Paul Getty, Businessman

"If you're puzzled by what dark energy is, you're in good company"

Saul Perlmutter, Scientist

"Only as long as a company can produce a desired, worthwhile, and needed product or service, and can command the public, will it receive the public dollar and succeed"

Curtis Carlson, Businessman

"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"

Bill Ford, Businessman

"I now work for a finance company in Luxembourg with projects in South America and the Caribbean"

Mathias Rust, Aviator

"Are the things that now, in retrospect, with what I've seen happen to my company, would I have done some things differently? I think - I think we all would do - we would do a number of things differently"

Jeffrey Skilling, Criminal

"Shareholder activism is not a privilege - it is a right and a responsibility. When we invest in a company, we own part of that company and we are partly responsible for how that company progresses. If we believe there is something going wrong with the company, then we, as shareholders, must become active and vocal"

Mark Mobius, Businessman

"A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company"

Charles Evans Hughes, Judge

"I knew that if I concentrated on AdBrite, I could probably make a big company out of it"

Philip J. Kaplan, Businessman

"Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

"No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you"

Will Rogers, Actor

"Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work"

Vince Lombardi, Coach

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

John Locke, Philosopher

"The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you"

Jean de la Bruyere, Philosopher

"A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique"

Michael Porter, Educator

"Tyler Perry's brand is faith, family and this whole thing that I've built, while my company, 34th Street Films, is like Disney's Touchstone. We can do anything. People don't know what to expect from me yet"

Tyler Perry, Actor

"If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees"

Hal Borland, Author

"I never had many problems to do my music and to give it to a record company. Rarely do they try to argue with me about my music, probably because it's still too far-out"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

"In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back"

Thomas Keneally, Novelist

"I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen"

John Sebastian, Musician

"And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music"

Joan Jett, Musician

"Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things yes, I'm introducing some new music that people haven't really heard me do in quite this fashion"

Al Jarreau, Musician

"I only travel to good material, a good director and a good company. I won't work in another country for a year any longer, because I have a lovely wife and I adore her and I can't bear to be away from her"

Jim Dale, Musician

"Who's paying the million bucks? The insurance company. We've been trying for years to get the insurance industry to say to the gun industry, We won't insure you unless you have policies that will reduce the likelihood of guns falling into the wrong hands easily"

Michael D. Barnes, Politician

"I think that by October the whole company has to migrate to OpenOffice, and then I think it's by June next year we all migrate to Linux - you don't want to migrate 6,000 people both operating system and office suite in a single jump"

Miguel de Icaza, Scientist

"Women serve but to keep a man from better company"

William Wycherley, Dramatist

"Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?"

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

"I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have to change"

Tim O'Reilly

"It's not just buying the company. Sure, we picked the right companies, and we picked the right management and, most importantly, we've given them the right incentive to perform"

Henry Kravis, Businessman

"I never had the high-paying job or the company car. It took me over a decade to pay off my student loans. I never had to worry about where to dock my yacht to reduce my taxes"

Christine O'Donnell, Politician

"So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company"

John Lone, Actor

"If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on, it's been phenomenal for South Dakota"

Bill Janklow, Politician

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