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Unusually rapid growth cannot keep up forever; when a company has already registered a brilliant expansion, its very increase in size makes… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
It's not Africa that is destroying the African rainforest, it's selling concessions to timber companies that are not African, they are from… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I did grow up in France, and even though I didn't go to the school or dance with the Paris Opera Ballet,… — Benjamin Millepied Copy Share Image
In the industrial age, the CEO sat on the top of the hierarchy and didn't have to listen to anybody ... In… — John Sculley Copy Share Image
In 1995, I founded The Molecular Sciences Institute with a gift from the Philip Morris Company where I hoped that we could… — Sydney Brenner Copy Share Image
So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies… — Thomas Dolby Copy Share Image
Many think of management as cutting deals and laying people off and hiring people and buying and selling companies. That's not management,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When mourning the loss of our departed friends, I cannot help but think that in every death there is a birth; the… — Wilford Woodruff Copy Share Image
I was an executive running a pretty substantial group before becoming CEO, and I had no idea what it was like. When… — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image
I think there's been this long cycle of the big companies making a lot of money by underestimating people's intelligence and people… — J. Robbins Copy Share Image
I'm focusing on quality versus quantity - a nicer tee-shirt with organic cotton and buying just one or two instead of five… — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
But I kept at it with the help-wanted ads. My standards were sliding swiftly. At first I had insisted I would only… — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
There are times when you need to step back and realize that movie studios today are not necessarily the same things that… — Michael Uslan Copy Share Image
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42% of our management team are women. So we've reset the goal to 50% by 2017. Because that's when Westpac becomes 200… — Gail Kelly Copy Share Image
Our managers hadn't had that kind of success - the record company hadn't, we hadn't - and the feeling was that the… — Roland Gift Copy Share Image
Anybody who is running a marathon or doing a walkathon, doing a fundraiser for their school, their company, by far it's guaranteed… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
The American people were really not 100% convinced that this idea of default was really going to occur, and I think the… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
What makes stocks valuable in the long run isn't the market. It's the profitability of the shares in the companies you own.… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think Starbucks created a platform and, ultimately, a runway for many other companies to emulate. I suspect if we had not… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
Large companies are not going to disappear. Multinational companies with tens of thousands of employees are not going to disappear. In fact,… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
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In terms of development of the company, the vast majority of our sales are in the Far East and we will expect… — David Milne Copy Share Image
Failing to warn the citizens of a looming weapon of mass destruction- and that's what global warming is- in order to protect… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
As an entrepreneur, you've got to protect against the company going bust. And as an adventurer, you've got to protect against losing… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
The future of communicating with customers rests in engaging with them through every possible channel: phone, e-mail, chat, Web, and social networks.… — Marc Benioff Copy Share Image
I was totally ignored for a while... that's a hazard of signing with a small company who say how small they are… — Phoebe Snow Copy Share Image
What an economy really wants, after all, is not more investment per se but better investment. It wants capital to flow to… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
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I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I… — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
You know Facebook has this sort of bizarre culture of like really shunning people who raise legitimate concerns about how, you know,… — Christopher Wylie Copy Share Image
This company looks cheap, that company looks cheap, but the overall economy could completely screw it up. The key is to wait.… — David Tepper Copy Share Image
If you're a wounded company, the other companies that have been around for a hundred years will smell it, and they will… — Douglas Conant Copy Share Image
Companies want to innovate. Companies that don't innovate wither on the vine. The connection between STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics)… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Most people will solve the problems they know how to solve. Roughly speaking they will solve B+ problems instead of A+ problems.… — Keith Rabois Copy Share Image
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