Thirty years ago, about 80% of a company's assets resided in its plant and equipment, with 20% in the knowledge of its… — Susan Rice Copy Share Image
What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an… — Ratan Tata Copy Share Image
Like IBM, the company [Microsoft] seems to have been spooked by the federal antitrust action against it and became increasingly sclerotic and… — Stephen Manes Copy Share Image
It is very rewarding when you see your employees happy and excited about the success of the company. When you introduce something… — Anousheh Ansari Copy Share Image
I remember when I was like 19 years old and I started a desk calendar company to pay for my first short… — Jason Reitman Copy Share Image
I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As ye sow, so shall ye reap. When a ballet company spends a lot of money on gimmicky pieces, it's stuck with… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
You really want to have a back-up plan, so when you don't feel like acting, or you're getting older and settling down,… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
There are certain areas where foreign investors can help the local people to generate wealth, and improve their quality of life. Some… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
The weeds of a seemingly learned and brilliant but actually trivial and empty philosophy of Nature which, after having been replaced some… — Hermann Kolbe Copy Share Image
The U.S. and, to a certain extent, countries in Europe as well, have experienced growing inequality within their population for decades -… — Nicholas Bloom Copy Share Image
We preach free enterprise capitalism. We believe in it, we give our lives in war for it, but the closest most of… — Nicholas von Hoffman Copy Share Image
I think the hallmark of a really good entrepreneur is that you're not really going to build one specific company. The goal… — Max Levchin Copy Share Image
I remember when being a 'a company man' was a badge of honor; today in Silicon Valley it may brand you a… — Maynard Webb Copy Share Image
Some people you just had to embrace, in some way or another, had to bite into the muscle, to remain sane in… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
A logo doesn't need to say what a company does. Restaurant logos don't need to show food, dentist logos don't need to… — David Airey Copy Share Image
Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking… — Tony Visconti Copy Share Image
It wasn't that we were afraid of the Church or the Vatican. The record company thought people might find the title offensive.… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
It's not about market share. If you have a successful company, you will get your market share. But to get a successful… — Gordon Bethune Copy Share Image
My company mascot is the bumblebee. Because of its tiny wings and heavy body, aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly.… — Mary Kay Ash Copy Share Image
To live a present and awakened life, simply be responsive to the moment. It is very simple. If you are hungry, eat.… — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
When you have gained a victory, do not push it too far; 'tis sufficient to let the company and your adversary see… — Eustace Budgell Copy Share Image
People want what’s best for them, and they can switch on a dime, because there’s always a new disruptor disrupting the last… — Ben Chestnut Copy Share Image
Learning to see waste and systematically eliminate it has allowed lean companies such as Toyota to dominate entire industries. Lean thinking defines… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
But of course there is always a hamartia and yours is that oh, my God, even though you HAD FREAKING CANCER you… — John Green Copy Share Image
They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off. — Cole Younger Copy Share Image
On the whole, Chaucer impresses us as greater than his reputation, and not a little like Homer and Shakespeare, for he would… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To get a big company moving fast, especially on a many-headed opportunity like the Internet, you have to have hundreds of people… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The people who run record companies now wouldn't know a song if it flew up their nose and died. They haven't a… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
When you're running a company, creating jobs is the last thing you want to. When you're running a company you want to… — Robert Metcalfe Copy Share Image
The Tea Party is protecting its millionaire and oil company friends while gutting critical services that they know protect the livelihood of… — Andre Carson Copy Share Image
But it is a worry that there have been so many delays in the reform of China's state-owned enterprises. We all know… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
For a long time, to obtain enterprise customers, I concealed the fact that I owned the company. I never lied about it,… — Rebecca Enonchong Copy Share Image
I would define independent film as a movie that is not financed by any of the smaller film companies. Because then, those… — Steven Shainberg Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal of a habit-forming product is to solve the user's pain by creating an association so that the user identifies… — Nir Eyal Copy Share Image
As an entrepreneur, I knew that if my company failed, I could always try again. So I often felt that the only… — Eric Ries Copy Share Image
By 14, I had decided on three modest goals and repeated them often to everyone. I wanted to be a world-class filmmaker,… — Sean Astin Copy Share Image
People ask my mother whether she had any idea that I'd be CEO of a company some day, and she would say,… — Anne M. Mulcahy Copy Share Image
I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
You don't want to be the only car company. When you're the only car company and there's no competition, customers may not… — Marc Benioff Copy Share Image