Company Quotes

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

"Getting things done in this country, if you want to build something, if you want to start a company, it's getting to be virtually impossible with all of the bureaucracy and all of the approvals"

Donald Trump, Businessman

"If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants"

David Ogilvy, Businessman

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

David Ogilvy, Businessman

"There has never been a time when a career in the Penney Company was not a challenge that brought out the best in a man"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

"No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn't"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

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

Barbara Boxer, Politician

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

George Savile, Politician

"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

"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

"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

"Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market"

E. F. Schumacher, Economist

"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

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

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

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

Michael Porter, Educator

"A company like DreamWorks, all we do is make product. That's all we do. We don't own distribution. We are purely in the creation of content"

Jeffrey Katzenberg, Producer

"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

"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

"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

"A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be"

Cesare Pavese, Poet

"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

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

Bernard Baruch, Businessman

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

Thomas Shadwell, Dramatist

"Live always in the best company when you read"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

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

Barry White, Musician

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

Phil Donahue, Entertainer

"The punishment should fit the crime and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligently to a patient they should be compensated to make them whole"

Corrine Brown, Politician

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

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"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

"Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices"

Denis Diderot, Editor

"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

"Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love"

Saul Bellow, Novelist

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

Eva Herzigova, Model

"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

"Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them"

Tom Lehrer, Musician

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