Company Quotes · Page 89

In financing growing companies, we always looked for human value that didn't appear on the balance sheet.

— Michael Milken

You have to have the courage to pull the company up and force them to change and move.

— Andy Jassy

The company will never go to the market. We want to keep strict self-financing.

— Ingvar Kamprad

But I can't take responsibility for criminal conduct of somebody inside the company.

— Kenneth Lay

When I was 19 or 20 I was an accountant earning 5 a week for a company called Ridley & Co.

— Touker Suleyman

The most important thing I've learned since becoming CEO is context. It's how your company fits in with the world and how…

— Jeffrey R. Immelt

I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record…

— Don Henley

I could never have done what I did without being involved with Lindsay Kemp's company.

— David Bowie

I want to send a very clear message to the men and women who are wearing - or who have worn -…

— Michelle Obama

While there are differences, there are similarities in terms of cost-cutting and many other things, but you also have to be talking…

— Donald Trump

By incentivizing Wall Street players to sniff out inefficient or corrupt companies and bet against them, short-selling acts as a sort of…

— Matt Taibbi

Hardware: where the people in your company's software section will tell you the problem is. Software: where the people in your company's…

— Dave Barry

If Americans could legally access prescription drugs outside the United States, then drug companies would be forced to re-evaluate their pricing strategy.

— Chuck Grassley

I think my mother was like a small company which, because things are not ship-shape, keeps two sets of books, one for…

— Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Employees are given the chance to help shape their company by participating in a company-wide communications program making suggestions on waste reduction,…

— Stephen Covey

There are many individuals, companies and even countries operating in what I call a 'me first' mentality, which is effectively a purely…

— Simon Mainwaring

I think that intelligent forecasting (company revenues, earnings, etc.) should not seek to predict what will in fact happen in the future.…

— Peter Cundill

I don't think our fiduciary duty is to put shareholders first. I say the opposite. What we firmly believe is that if…

— Paul Polman

The challenge CEOs will face three to five years from now is the same one that they face today. That is engagement.…

— Don Yaeger

My goal is to get another 30 years out of this business. So I need to figure out the fuel to do…

— Jason Bateman

That is what diminishes the artist and his song. The artist is now hermetically sealed. The publishing company got him his deal…

— Michael Kosser

[Slave] trade ... is the most shocking violation of the law of nature, has a direct tendency to diminish ... liberty, and…

— James Otis

Well, there was stuff going on, heroic events. One was what used to be, and probably still is, the largest moving project…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Soon, everything else would come rushing at him. Like the ground to a falling man, it would come rushing up and hit…

— Laini Taylor

Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change.

— Bill Gates

If anything, Calvin Klein is the iconic company in terms of fashion. They do have iconic images for their campaigns.

— Djimon Hounsou

At the end of almost every video in my YouTube catalog since Patreon's launch, I talk about my work at the company.

— Jack Conte

The best companies are able to realize earnings in cash, not through calculations that belong in fantasyland.

— David Hawkins

We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell.

— Barry White

The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.

— Paul Simon

I think big data companies only like good news. So I think they're just hoping that they don't get sued, essentially.

— Cathy O'Neil

People don't do good work when they feel like losers and are second-class citizens within their own company.

— Jonah Peretti

Every action in company ought to be with some sign of respect to those present.

— George Washington

I mean, you don't get a chance to buy a company like Gateway, you know, at or near book value very often.

— Ted Waitt

There are no experts in the company of Jesus. We are all beginners, necessarily followers, because we don’t know where we are…

— Eugene H. Peterson

A teacher who is only interested in great talents is like a man who only seeks the company of rich people.

— Carl Flesch

Rex Tillerson does massive deals in Russia. He does massive deals for the company, not for himself, for the company.

— Donald Trump

Navient's actions have led to student borrowers needlessly carrying billions of dollars in debt, and the company must be held accountable.

— Lisa Madigan

Companies that change best over time know first and foremost what should not change.

— James C. Collins

Taking the time to identify and infuse values certainly does affect outcomes and is one of the most important things to get…

— Jennifer Hyman