Company Quotes · Page 127

We're not a media company. We don't own media. We don't own music. We don't own films or television. We're not a…

— Steve Jobs

Never have I had such assistants to disrobe me, and never have I put off my clothes before such a company

— Mary, Queen of Scots

My thing is to have a good, profitable company, for it to be 100% owned independently.

— Damon Dash

There is no distinction, no echelon of actors within a company. A company is only as strong as its weakest link.

— Michael Arden

I had started at a small startup as a big-company guy. Now I was leaving a big company as a small-startup guy.

— Douglas Edwards

There's only one thing that all the successful companies in the world have in common: None was started by one person.

— Anonymous

I try to get people to see what I have. . . . When you run a computer company, you have to…

— Steve Jobs

Companies that I've been very involved with, that have had a very bad first hire in the first 3 or so employees…

— Sam Altman

I don't like stock buybacks. I think if a company has the money to buy their stock back, then they should take…

— T. Boone Pickens

It's become this really odd thing where even some of the folks who build the things that we wear for entertainment are…

— Robert Downey, Jr

Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation,…

— Ernst Toller

I have worked with Tarell Alvin McCraney, who is the play Moonlight is based on. He's a company member at Steppenwolf. I…

— Andre Holland

...heavy investments in information technology have delivered disappointing results - largely because companies tend to use technology to mechanize old ways of…

— Michael Martin Hammer

Maharashtra knows what Thackeray family is. Devendra Fadnavis has accused me of lying. Even if Amit Shah and company accuses me of…

— Uddhav Thackeray

The sad truth is as difficult as the first mile can be for entrepreneurs, it is doubly tough inside most large companies…

— Scott D. Anthony

Turner Broadcasting went from a very entrepreneurial, risk-taking company where I had a tremendous amount of freedom and autonomy to a corporate,…

— Eric Bischoff

When top executives get huge pay hikes at the same time as middle-level and hourly workers lose their jobs and retirement savings,…

— Robert Reich

For some years now I have been considering the idea of making a watch that our agents could sell at a more…

— Hans Wilsdorf

The most important thing you can learn as CEO- one of the hardest things to do is, you have to discipline yourself…

— Ben Horowitz

Having Alexei Ratmansky create a new Romeo and Juliet for The National Ballet of Canada to mark our 60th anniversary is a…

— Karen Kain

We've got a portfolio of companies that range all the way from hotels to television stations and cable TV companies, oil and…

— Henry Kravis

Innovation is not a big breakthrough invention every time. Innovation is a constant thing. But if you don't have an innovative company…

— Jack Welch

When this crisis began, crucial decisions about what would happen to some of the world's biggest companies - companies employing tens of…

— Barack Obama

He who sups with the devil had better have a long spoon. The devilry of modernity has its own magic: The [believer]…

— Peter L. Berger

I am Marc Jacobs by birth, but we are Marc Jacobs by the company that we built.

— Marc Jacobs

I think that to a great degree, reggae companies have become very corporate and so maybe some don't have that freedom to…

— Stevie Wonder

Any executive, any CEO should not have 1 management style. Your management style needs to be dictated by your employee.

— Keith Rabois

The old need the company of the young so that they renew their contact with life.

— Indira Gandhi

I plan to eliminate regulations that hinder domestic companies, particularly large conglomerates from investing in other companies.

— Lee Myung-bak

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.

— David Hume

[John F.Kennedy] liked fresh company, new people to come visit and then leave. ... I think he liked the protection of numbers…

— Chris Matthews

I want to have a really big impact on my kids, my community, and my company.

— Julie Sweet

I prefer liquor store robbers with hungry kids to companies that locate offshore to avoid U.S. taxes.

— Warren Buffett

The principle difference between heaven and hell is the company you keep there.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.

— Gary Hamel

My dad had a company, and there were various films that hadn't gone into production that I'm trying to nurture.

— Max Minghella

No government can give a selective advantage to a specific company, because that would make competition unfair.

— Margrethe Vestager

“I've known CEOs I wouldn't let borrow a pencil who thought their lives were beacons of integrity.”

— Gary Weiss

I have a stake in a company called Super Fight League, which is an MMA company in India, and we have a…

— Amir Khan

I think if the average person that uses AOL can't physically see the changes in the company, we've failed.

— Tim Armstrong