Company Quotes

"Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world"

"We were advised that nobody could stop us from pursuing our craft simply because we had honed, or even developed that craft while working at a company"

David Crane

"I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film"

Carson Daly, Entertainer

"Our co-founder and company president, Jim Levy, came from a record industry background and understood the marketing and promotion of artists as well as products. So the video game business went from absolutely zero designer credit to something approaching rock star promotion"

David Crane

"Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. She didn't say, 'This is really good, you should do this', She just encouraged us to do whatever we liked"

Dannii Minogue, Musician

"Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them"

Ernst Toller, Playwright

"The Macintosh having shipped, his next agenda was to turn the rest of Apple into the Mac group. He had perceived the rest of Apple wasn't as creative or motivated as the Mac team, and what you need to take over the company are managers, not innovators or technical people"

Andy Hertzfeld, Inventor

"I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company"

David Friedman, Musician

"Audrey was a princess, so natural, the camera really loved her... James and I kept each other company during all the rejections. We used to meet, have a cup of coffee and went from office to office to get work and never got work"

Ben Gazzara, Actor

"I am a data hound and so I usually end up working on whatever things I can find good data on. The rise of Internet commerce completely altered the amount of information you could gather on company behavior so I naturally drifted toward it"

Austan Goolsbee, Public Servant

"The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules"

Arianna Huffington, Journalist

"King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them"

Antonia Fraser, Author

"But if two's company, three's a crowd - and that demands the omniscient point of view"

Arthur Herzog, Novelist

"If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience"

Brian Moore, Novelist

"Clearly any film company that makes a film is always going to talk about sequels particularly if they see something as being successful, which Werewolf was"

Jenny Agutter, Actress

"I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind"

Etta James, Musician

"In the event of fire in any of the public buildings troops would be of vast service in the protection of public property, and should insurrection break out the protection of life and property would be more safe guarded by our company of regulars, than by the whole City"

Thomas L. Smith, Explorer

"I respectfully suggest the propriety of having stationed at the arsenal a full company of U. S. troops, that they may be made available in any emergency, from fire, insurrection, or any thing else"

Thomas L. Smith, Explorer

"When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco"

Douglass North, Economist

"My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and I am not sure that my mother completed high school"

Douglass North, Economist

"They get, you know, whatever they want from their earnings, and their earnings go into their own company"

Brian Epstein, Businessman

"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet"

Mary Wortley, Royalty

"Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants"

Martin Lewis Perl, Physicist

"I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in"

Anita Roddick, Businessman

"But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth"

Anita Roddick, Businessman

"Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter"

Izaak Walton, Writer

"Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue"

Izaak Walton, Writer

"Let's talk about the Gas Company because this is my favorite job"

Minoru Yamasaki, Architect

"The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away"

Anita Roddick, Businessman

"The King's son, who was told that a great princess, whom nobody knew, was come, ran out to receive her. He gave her his hand as she alighted from the coach, and led her into the hall where the company were assembled"

Charles Perrault, Author

"That said, there is a tendency to help the large industrial conglomerate more quickly than the small company you have never heard of. That is something in the culture we are trying to change"

Lawrence Eagleburger, Diplomat

"More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery"

Thomas Traherne, Clergyman

"I am a gambler. I decided to go in with Company E in the first wave"

Robert Capa, Photographer

"We are working with a biotech company, Calypte, which has designed a urine test for the HIV antibody"

Luc Montagnier, Scientist

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