Company Quotes

"It's funny, when I'm not on the road or doing stuff with Bad Company - or whatever- I've always written songs galore... a lot of stuff people don't even hear"

Mick Ralphs, Musician

"For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country"

Charles Erwin Wilson, Businessman

"There's timing. And then there's also certain people at the record company who worked incredibly hard and were incredibly enthusiastic about what I was doing"

Mary Chapin Carpenter, Musician

"Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood"

Saint Aurelius Augustine

"Alan's publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where all the songwriters hung out because that's where all the publishers were"

Johnny Rivers, Musician

"It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company"

Jack Kilby, Scientist

"The irony of our social group is that so often everyone feels this, but there's no company whatsoever in that feeling. Think of Pound's great emphasis, the way out is via the door"

Robert Creeley, Poet

"Being a starving company isn't fun for anyone. Most that go away need to go away... but certainly not all"

Mike Wilson

"This kid's excited because he's with Bad Company and I'm excited because I'm with Chuck Berrys' son"

Mick Ralphs, Musician

"To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants"

Peter Stuyvesant, Public Servant

"Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly"

Ellsworth Huntington, Educator

"There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing"

Elliott Smith, Musician

"I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either"

Gary Bauer, Public Servant

"Our company is built on people - those who work for us, and those we do business with"

Harvey S. Firestone, Businessman

"Yes it was we, are a few years back parted from our record company and took the album that we were making with them and released it independently in the United States had a number one Independent debut in the United States"

Isaac Hanson, Musician

"Well we have a good working relationship with Microsoft at the development level. But let's not kid ourselves, this is a company with enormous resources and talented people, and there is a certain pride that comes along with that for them and for us"

John W. Thompson, Businessman

"But once you buy a company, you are married. You are married to that company"

Henry Kravis, Businessman

"It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before"

Jackson Browne, Musician

"Good taste is as tiring as good company"

Francis Picabia, Artist

"As a small company our fastest way to market was going to be by working with other retailers that were known for pioneering new technologies and categories"

David Rose, Musician

"I could never live a nonproductive life and I feel that I have lived a productive life as far as I want to in terms of this company that I have for so many years"

Katherine Dunham, Dancer

"If you really hate George Bush, you don't want to read about his hobbies or that he's nice to his friends or that he's good company at dinner"

Daniel Okrent, Editor

"It's the company itself, but most of these mutual fund companies, the guy who runs the company is just a fact totem and the guy who runs the money is the power. But we really don't know who they are"

Jim Cramer, Businessman

"I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished"

Christiane Amanpour, Journalist

"Every time I release an album my old record company releases another one"

Bonnie Tyler, Musician

"In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color"

Catharine MacKinnon, Activist

"There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don't like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don't spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities"

Michael Dell, Businessman

"What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry"

Ian Jackson, Scientist

"Indeed, the whole company, although thin in flesh, and generally of slight forms, and limbs, especially, are as good looking and intelligent a body of men as we usually meet with"

Lewis Tappan, Businessman

"So I decided to form a production company with my wife and our partner Diane"

Ray Liotta, Actor

"When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn't win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, I'm proud to be in this company that way"

Eddie Murray, Athlete

"The world doesn't need another clothing company. But it does need a certain funk"

Andre Benjamin, Musician

"Dan Curtis, our producer, has the idea that people like to see a stock company of actors"

Thayer David, Actor

"Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company"

Samuel Pepys, Writer

"I was looking to become more proactive with my career because I wasn't crazy with some of the scripts I was getting - this was before Blow and Hannibal - so I decided to start my own production company"

Ray Liotta, Actor

"A lot of the people who have come to know the company in the last few years will not have seen this piece"

Matthew Bourne, Dancer

"A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult"

John B. S. Haldane, Scientist

"The partnership over the 28 years we had the company afforded him the opportunity to experiment and live his life as an artist and a label honcho and do what he wanted to do. It afforded me the same opportunity"

Jerry Moss, Businessman

"My company is known for being funny as well as moving. You get a bit of everything in these shows. I think people know they're going to have a surprising experience"

Matthew Bourne, Dancer

"A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires"

Hedy Lamarr, Actress

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