The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal. — Robert Trout Copy Share Image
Because I don't see Virgin as a company but as a way of life and I fully enjoy it, I don't think… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could. — E. G. Marshall Copy Share Image
As a company commander you have absolute definitions: the mission, the people. — Benny Gantz Copy Share Image
Irishmen are not reserved, and the company appeared dying to be intimately acquainted. — William Hamilton Maxwell Copy Share Image
E.Biscom is an Internet company that is diversified, not a diversified company that is trying out the Internet. — Silvio Scaglia Copy Share Image
The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful. — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
“Announcing the intended arrival of some people is kind of like issuing a hurricane warning. ” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
One of my favorite things is acting like a speaker or a professor or a CEO of a company and addressing the… — Reggie Watts Copy Share Image
The people at the Café Lehmitz had a presence and a sincerity that I myself lacked. It was okay to be desperate,… — Anders Petersen Copy Share Image
Anybody can build a company and sell the company the next day. That doesn't make you special, it doesn't make you unique,… — Jan Koum Copy Share Image
Buying an aggregator and calling it a content play is a little like a company's announcing plans to improve its cash position… — Bill Keller Copy Share Image
In all fairness to the auction companies ? most companies are not car experts, they are marketers. I caution buyers to make… — Mark Hyman, M.D Copy Share Image
If you are a big company, a big website, and lots of users come to your website, you will have attacks, and… — Robin Li Copy Share Image
A show can be artistically successful; a show can be financially successful; a show can be successful by the transformative experience the… — David Binder Copy Share Image
I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The problem in today’s economy is that people are typically starting a family at the very time they are also supposed to… — John Medina Copy Share Image
We're at risk of losing this iconic species for all time. Once it's stripped of its natural instincts, it's no longer a… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
Goldman Sachs was one of those companies whose illegal activity helped destroy our economy and ruin the lives of millions of Americans.… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
It's an individual morality in values that matters in these companies [like Wells Fargo]. I mean, they ought to clean house. And… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
We need a firm cap on carbon emissions from fossil fuels. No coal, oil, or gas could enter the economy until the… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
Big Pharma needs sick people to prosper. Patients, not healthy people, are their customers. If everybody was cured of a particular illness… — James Morcan Copy Share Image
...I just gave up trying to be a Christian... Let's face it, I ain't got the knack for holiness. Besides, I didn't… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Of course, the age-old tradition that a star must appear even if he or she is practically dying is an excellent one,… — Noel Coward Copy Share Image
As you get bigger, you have to learn to delegate. It's also an excellent way to get staff involved in the company's… — Azim Premji Copy Share Image
I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while. — Marissa Mayer Copy Share Image
Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick 'exit.' It is centered on long-term value creation. — Hamdi Ulukaya Copy Share Image
If there is a hell, then I'll be in good company with a lot of fighter pilots who also had to bomb… — Timothy McVeigh Copy Share Image
They say misery loves company, but so does mediocrity. Don't let the limiting beliefs of OTHERS limit what's possible for YOU. — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
No company fails in communist China, because they're all partly owned by the government. — Jim Bunning Copy Share Image
The normal Hollywood approach is to have a super-charged production company and then go to the studios for distribution and marketing. — Robert Simonds Copy Share Image
Truly visionary and successful companies have discovered that there is no conflict between the pursuit of profit and having a pursuit beyond… — David Maister Copy Share Image
Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen. — Dick Armey Copy Share Image
There has never been a time when a career in the Penney Company was not a challenge that brought out the best… — James Cash Penney Copy Share Image
New Japan is my personal favorite wrestling company, working there was my dream; it was my dream to wrestle in the Tokyo… — Montel Vontavious Porter Copy Share Image
I've been part of founding three companies that have gone public. It doesn't seem like a big number, but it's actually a… — Eric Lefkofsky Copy Share Image
Just because a company falls doesn't invalidate what we can learn by studying that company when it was at its historical best. — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
The biggest barrier to starting a company isn't ideas, funding or experiences. It's excuses. — Sarah Lacy Copy Share Image
At the core, Philips is an innovation company. And for innovation to work, you need to look for the unmet needs. — Frans van Houten Copy Share Image
We've had public companies in the past in that business and they bleed. We've got a lot more blood than they do. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image