Company Quotes

"When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think my company guarantees that. There's always something new and something to excite us and surprise us, and that's why people come back, I hope"

Matthew Bourne, Dancer

"I wish people would turn off their computers, go outside, talk to people, touch people, lick people, enjoy each other's company and smell each other on the rump"

Tre Cool, Musician

"I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company"

Tony Randall, Actor

"If you were the boss of a company and some of the employees of your company were known to sexually abuse children, you would fire them instantly"

Sinead O'Connor, Musician

"I think Fast Company has a tremendously smart focus and execution"

James Daly, Actor

"It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods"

Jack Kilby, Scientist

"The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you're not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible piece of company that can go bankrupt"

Jim Rogers, Businessman

"Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company"

Jeremy Collier, Clergyman

"There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline"

Andy Grove, Businessman

"I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine"

Naomi Watts, Actress

"The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars"

Theodore Sturgeon, Writer

"And what we did with this new company in 1985 is we did start focusing on PCs instead of video game machines, because we learned the hard lesson about bringing a product to market in a consumer world where it's very expensive to build a brand and get distribution and so forth"

Steve Case, Businessman

"What pisses me off is when I've got seven or eight record company fat pig men sitting there telling me what to wear"

Sinead O'Connor, Musician

"I'm not fit company for man or beast"

Billy Strayhorn, Composer

"Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians"

Edward Hall, Lawyer

"Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company"

Roy Ayers, Musician

"You're being cast for your acting ability. It's not based on the way your body functions. If you're playing a lead in a movie, it's for that character and they'll tailor it to you. In a dance company, you have to fit in a definite mold"

Neve Campbell, Actress

"If you're in a company, you're dancing from 9 a.m. till 7 in the evening, and then you go home and get in a hot tub and get some Epsom salts and try to get your body goin' again. There's no social life, no anything"

Neve Campbell, Actress

"It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it"

Helen Reddy, Actress

"I expect that our associates will walk with a little more bounce in their step and understand that this company is behind them and has respect for them"

Lee Scott, Businessman

"I just think that it's maybe fashionable today to try to take individual actions and individual failures and take the broadest possible brush and try to paint a company"

Lee Scott, Businessman

"I continue to have a special pride and passion for AOL, and I strongly believe that AOL - once the leading Internet company in the world - can return to its past greatness"

Steve Case, Businessman

"We started the company out of frustration with the employer that we had because we were building great stuff and there was no way that this stuff was ever going to get into the hands of the people who could use it"

John Warnock, Scientist

"So it takes years to make a solid company"

Ninette de Valois, Dancer

"It was Grant's company and he made all the decisions. And that was just fine"

Mary Tyler Moore, Actress

"A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!'"

Lewis Black, Comedian

"And the greeter is what sets the tone for this company and I've been on TV a little bit this morning"

Lee Scott, Businessman

"It was a superb agreement to end a war, but a very bad agreement to make a state. From now on, we have to part company with Dayton and try to build a modern democratic state, for which I have tried to lay the foundations"

Paddy Ashdown, Politician

"I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two"

Jack Kilby, Scientist

"I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12"

Gail Porter, Celebrity

"We're building a great company, and we're very excited about the future of the company"

Jim Barksdale, Businessman

"I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again"

Oliver North, Soldier

"I created a production company. Right now I am so happy in my work"

Marla Maples, Actress

"We've played producers almost our entire lives in everything else we've created. But when working on a feature and even dealing with something like Warner Bros. or another production company, or other details that you can worry about - we definitely learned a lot"

Mary-Kate Olsen, Actress

"People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company"

Jeremy Collier, Clergyman

"Without aggression, it becomes possible to think well, to be curious about differences, and to enjoy each other's company"

Margaret J. Wheatley, Writer

"I lost a company. So what? It's just stuff. Can't take it with you"

Wally Amos, Businessman

"It was supposed to be a year or two just to refresh my batteries, but I moved to Silicon Valley in the early 90's, and one thing let to another, got very involved in high tech, and formed a company and it ended up doing pretty well"

Thomas Dolby, Musician

"A local company has more accountability"

Paul Hawken, Environmentalist

"Take our own company as an example: We're living proof, we jump with our own parachutes"

Jim Barksdale, Businessman

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