Company Quotes · Page 66

Most companies are very quick to hire and slow to fire, when really it should be the other way around.

— Tony Hsieh

Managing brands is going to be more and more about trying to manage everything that your company does.

— Lee Clow

If you start a successful company in China at 11 A.M., by 2 P.M. there's three more companies like it.

— Douglas Leone

If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

— Larry Page

Keep asking yourself, 'What kind of a company would my company be if everyone in it was just like me?'

— Brian Tracy

Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.

— Haruki Murakami

Make a total commitment to your company, your job, and your career. Uncommitted people have no future.

— Brian Tracy

I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I'd touched bottom.

— Paul Theroux

That co-operation and peace rather than industrial strife and strikes will best promote the prosperity of the employees the company and all…

— Charles E. Wilson

'I need milk' and 'I need to decide whether to buy this company' both tie up space in psychic RAM. The solution…

— David Allen

My goal one day is to be in the same sentence as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall. If I can match them…

— Pete Sampras

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

I joined bit.ly as chief scientist in October of 2009. The company is a URL-shortener and content-sharing platform; we provide tools for…

— Hilary Mason

I highly recommend Aubrey Plumbing Company. I did extensive remodeling on a large, old house in the Murphy, TX. Aubrey Plumbing basically…

— Tom Brewer

Profit for a company is like oxygen for a person. If you don't have enough of it, you're out of the game.…

— Peter Drucker

This obsession with leadership... It's not neutral; it's American, this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse…

— Henry Mintzberg

I haven't seen so much tippy-toeing around since the last time I went to the ballet. When members of the arts community…

— Anna Quindlen

Like other magicians, Obama has chosen his distractions well. The insurance industry is currently his favorite distraction as scapegoats, after he has…

— Thomas Sowell

The not-quite-sort-of lie works here too - often an ad will announce that "Congressman Johnson voted for a bill that gave tax…

— James Lileks

Depression seems to be related to fear, anger and frustration. When you're in a bad mood, even if you meet with your…

— Dalai Lama

The best CEOs in our research display tremendous ambition for their company combined with the stoic will to do whatever it takes,…

— James C. Collins

New Rule: Food companies must face the facts: One container equals one serving. Look, we’re Americans, and that means once we open…

— Bill Maher

All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable…

— Philip Roth

To the best of my recollection, I became a philosopher because my parents wanted me to become a lawyer. It seems to…

— Jerry Fodor

“Remember, before they promoted to the chair of CEO, they were the best employees of their companies.”

— Amit Kalantri

You have more independent eyes scrutinizing the decision-making and financial statements of companies.

— Steve Odland

Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.

— Anonymous

“A discontent employee means not getting the results 100% and the loss of a company advocate as well.”

— Pooja Agnihotri

Viacoms results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.

— Sumner Redstone

You cannot have an agreement... that gives a tailor's cut, a perfect handiwork, to a specific company.

— Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal

I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while.

— Marissa Mayer

Most companies are busy making their products worse, not better. Updating is almost always a disaster.

— Eric Ries

The most important question venture capitalists ask is what prevents your company from growing faster.

— Glenn Kelman

“We, when invited to hang out with and by our friend, are often a Plan B, a Plan C, or even a…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

It's a very valuable skill to succeed in life whether you work for a startup or a Fortune 500 company.

— Guy Kawasaki

Starting a company is like throwing yourself off the cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.

— Reid Hoffman

Your brand is formed primarily, not by what your company says about itself, but what the company does.

— Jeff Bezos

Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves.

— Samuel Johnson

Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

— Richard Branson