Company Quotes · Page 135

The ability to sign a cheque is the least reliable guide to a company's fitness.

— David Plowright

I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest.

— Grimes

A great company in the media business needs visionary leaders, not a conglomerate structure headquartered in Columbus Circle that second guesses.

— Carl Icahn

I left Iran back in 1985. I lived in Turkey for a while, then I went to Germany. I joined a theater…

— Navid Negahban

Your first company is like your first baby.You have this unconditional, irrational love.

— Julia Hartz

It turns out that doing the right thing, treating people right, is also the right thing for the company.

— James Goodnight

If you'd asked me a few years ago about debt settlement companies, I probably would have told you to avoid them.

— Jean Chatzky

The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective.

— Melissa Auf der Maur

All you need do is listen to very smart people and sift out the ideas that are unworthy or implausible, and I…

— Michael Moritz

Though the world disregard the society of God's children now, yet there is a time coming in which they would be glad…

— John Bunyan

The president of Victoria's Secret promised me a lifetime supply of Victoria's Secret products, even after I decided to leave the company.…

— Tyra Banks

When you think about the current present value of the fossil fuel reserves that are on the books, the current fossil fuel…

— Chris Hayes

Going public for the sake of going public is not really an optimal thing. You're going public because as a company you…

— Jeff Weiner

Traditional social media, in the view of our company, has become a bit repetitive. It doesn't feel very good to be marketed…

— Evan Spiegel

If companies try to leave our country to avoid paying their fair share, if they try to outsource jobs, they're going to…

— Hillary Clinton

There are so many angles to follow up: government incompetence, sophisticated charity scams, how insurance companies treat victims, construction of the levees,…

— Brian Ross

I think that's actually what's missing from government, for the most part. We've got a lot of policy people, but we have…

— Edward Snowden

What you do is ultimately pointless. You could be replaced any day of the week with the first moron who walks in…

— Corinne Maier

Most of the world's great souls have been lonely. Loneliness seems to be one price the saint must pay for his saintliness...…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Whether you're moving to a new company or a new department within your current organization, I believe you'll end up miles ahead…

— Pat Heim

In the end the privatisation of war is not acceptable. We shouldn't be issuing these sub-contracts to these contracting companies because the…

— Ken Loach

If there is a regulation that says you have to do something-whether it be putting in seat belts, catalytic converters, clean air…

— Steven Chu

Requiring the payment of higher wages will lead to a loss of some jobs and a raising of prices which drives companies…

— Philip Kotler

I figured being a bed salesman was a job of biblically bad paradox. I mean, here he was, forced to stand for…

— Rachel Cohn

Fred Astaire was retired when he worked in 'The Pleasure of His Company.' They were lucky to get him to play the…

— Debbie Reynolds

People intuitively realize that there is strength in numbers and take comfort in the company of others, especially in times of anxiety…

— Leonard Mlodinow

There was no model how to make a documentary production company work. I figured it out as I went along.

— Morgan Neville

I feel like I enjoy the company of Whoopi deeply, and my private life is my private life.

— Ted Danson

A lot of international companies invest in the U.K. as a base for doing business with the rest of the European Union.

— Tim Harford

“I said I'd go alone, but perhaps that's the point; perhaps we are always alone, no matter the company we keep.”

— Sarah Perry

Often, M.B.A.s will parachute around from one company or industry to another, without really understanding what's behind it.

— Henry Mintzberg

I'm going to go do this crazy thing. I'm going to start this company selling books online.

— Jeff Bezos

This is a commodities business, so the companies that do it best are the ones that do it more efficiently.

— Kate Warne

“History gives us the company of those who have done and suffered more than we have.”

— Timothy Snyder

I am a company in myself. My repertoire has become a bible for all mimes in the world.

— Marcel Marceau

To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater…

— Jim Parsons

There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and…

— Mark Twain

I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company.

— Harlan Coben

Many of the best YC companies have had phenomenally small number of employees for their first year, sometimes none besides the founders.

— Sam Altman

A skunk is better company than a person who prides himself on being 'frank'.

— Robert A. Heinlein