Company Quotes

"Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals"

"I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult"

Fran Lebowitz, Journalist

"The company without a strategy is willing to try anything"

Michael Porter, Educator

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

Michael Porter, Educator

"Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more open and connected"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"We're running the company to serve more people"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people's perspectives... I really try and live the mission of the company and... keep everything else in my life extremely simple"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence"

David Hume, Philosopher

"Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions"

Barbara Boxer, Politician

"The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company"

Andre Gide, Novelist

"I have lots of sources of information about what's going on at the company. I think I have a pretty good pulse on where we are and what people are thinking"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"Certainly, we continue to bring in new people. We'll hire, net new, over 4,000 people this year, and attract great people into the company. I'm very bullish about the employee base and what it can accomplish"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"Yes, I was invited to make the sound environment at a booth of a huge electronic company, during the Hanover Industrial Fair in 1973. It was a job. Slightly good paid. But not as much as my producer then told the press"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell"

Barry White, Musician

"Our company has to be a company that enables its people"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"Live always in the best company when you read"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

"Never pay the slightest attention to what a company president ever says about his stock"

Bernard Baruch, Businessman

"I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother"

Phil Donahue, Entertainer

"Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in"

Mary Astell, Writer

"Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

"Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way"

George Savile, Politician

"The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar"

William F. Buckley, Jr., Journalist

"My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company"

Eva Herzigova, Model

"We took our eye off the ball as a company"

Bill Ford, Businessman

"I've had a terrific life, from building one company to be the second largest company in the securities industry and merging that into American Express, and becoming president of that company"

Sanford I. Weill, Businessman

"I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water"

Thomas Shadwell, Dramatist

"One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for most of my life, is seeing how CEOs start to believe in their own infallibility. And that really scares me"

Bill Ford, Businessman

"From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness"

Sanford I. Weill, Businessman

"The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it"

Paul Simon, Musician

"Our company is working with Disney to create a game for children between the ages of maybe four and 12, so we can teach them what the capitalist system is all about"

Sanford I. Weill, Businessman

"Every actor I ever meet goes, 'Ultimately I plan on having my own company and write and direct,' but yes, I too would love to write and direct a movie. I want to do a play, too. I want to do it all"

Jason Schwartzman, Actor

"I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot.But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans"

Barack Obama, President

"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

"No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company"

Alan Turing, Mathematician

"And I was asked if I would come and help with the recovery of this great British company, Cable and Wireless, and I'm delighted to become part of the new and very talented management that have been brought in to that company as well"

Lord Robertson, Diplomat

"It's like, it's up to the people to fall in love with the song. The record company can only do so much"

Paul Westerberg, Musician

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