Company Quotes

"Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company"

"Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information"

Scott Adams, Cartoonist

"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

"The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal"

David Geffen, Businessman

"I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company"

Charles Schumer, Politician

"To become a classical ballerina, you have to move to New York when you're 12 or 11 and that becomes your life. I just wanted to be good in my company in Charleston and I wanted it to always be part of my life"

Jennifer Garner, Actress

"Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for"

Wole Soyinka, Dramatist

"I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company"

Don Henley, Musician

"I can imagine wanting to work with this ensemble and this company always"

James Levine, Musician

"The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me"

Patrick Stewart, Actor

"If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company"

Sela Ward, Actress

"But I really am very active in the choice of the line producer with the producer of record and the distributing company, because I've had some terrible, terrible experiences with some line producers, particularly in cable"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise"

Patrick Stewart, Actor

"Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren't able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans"

Joan Jett, Musician

"First of all, every new company today is being built in the face of massive economic headwinds, making the challenge far greater than it was in the relatively benign '90s"

Marc Andreessen, Businessman

"Over two billion people now use the broadband Internet, up from perhaps 50 million a decade ago, when I was at Netscape, the company I co-founded"

Marc Andreessen, Businessman

"No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult"

Marc Andreessen, Businessman

"In 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the cost of a customer running a basic Internet application was approximately $150,000 a month"

Marc Andreessen, Businessman

"Even President Bush has cited the need to outlaw the practice of corporations making loans to their officers. Strangely enough, when the President was a corporate officer, he took out several loans from the company"

Bennie Thompson, Politician

"We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want"

Adam Jones, Musician

"I have a record company starting. It's called Flesh Records and I'm putting together music for porno movies"

Adam Jones, Musician

"The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!"

Earl Nightingale, Writer

"A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine"

John Gay, Poet

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

Saul Bellow, Novelist

"We were building a - what I thought was a fantastic company. We had great people. We were changing - we were changing the way the marketplace operated. We were creating a market for natural gas and electricity that had never existed before"

Jeffrey Skilling, Criminal

"But I can't take responsibility for criminal conduct of somebody inside the company"

Kenneth Lay, Businessman

"I'm supposed to be the director of a television company, but I've only ever seen that company as a vehicle for making the kind of programmes we wanted to make, getting our ideas on the screen"

Rory Bremner, Comedian

"I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then - because they got fired - the record company wouldn't do anything for me"

Ornette Coleman, Musician

"Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock"

Paul Getty, Businessman

"Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company"

Ornette Coleman, Musician

"It's my company and I believe in the company that's why I started it"

Eriq La Salle, Actor

"The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring"

Milton Berle, Comedian

"I suspect that we might actually start selling some records with these artists in about 10 years. Some the people who invested, they're a little tight-because it's a lot of money to start up a company"

Branford Marsalis, Musician

"I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company"

Jay-Z, Musician

"Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make"

Dick Wolf, Producer

"We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires"

Dave Barry, Author

"Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before"

Michael Pollan, Educator

"The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit"

Samuel Gompers, Activist

"It's not like it used to be where everybody has a record company to belong to"

Edwin Starr, Musician

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