Company Quotes · Page 71

Empirically the way you get a product visionary as CEO is for him to found the company and not get fired.

— Paul Graham

What do oil company executives, vampires and NASA bureaucrats all have in common? They fear solar energy.

— Michio Kaku

Despite PAL's troubles in the late 1990s, we were fortunate to have steered the company to clearer skies.

— Lucio Tan

I think this is also a great time to invest in private equity, helping companies grow from the ground up.

— Jim Rogers

In the long term the most important question for a company is not what you are but what you are becoming.

— Gary Hamel

No Catalan citizen and no Catalan company will leave the E.U. That is evident, and nobody can dispute it.

— Carles Puigdemont

I think a lot of folks feel like Uber was a company they missed out on. Sequoia passed on us three times.

— Travis Kalanick

An entrepreneur is not a person who starts a company, but he is the person who actually solves a problem.

— Naveen Jain

We believe that a company's obligations extend far beyond its bottom line and its shareholders - to a wider constituency that includes…

— John A. Byrne

We have to do a much better job at keeping our jobs. And we have to do a much better job at…

— Donald Trump

There's no single company in the whole world that has a big-scale production base and at the same time has screening and…

— Wang Jianlin

Some record labels want to package you in a certain way and we didn't want that. Once the record company saw we…

— Christian Burns

In 1979 I teamed up with my friend and business partner, Bill DeWitt, and together we formed an oil and gas company…

— Mercer Reynolds

I never had a plan. I have to say, I'm very shocked when people start a company and say, 'In five years…

— Christian Louboutin

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company…

— Orison Swett Marden

Everybody can perform, there are so many outlets. Musicians are no longer limited. In the past, the record companies made most of…

— Jake Holmes

Bell Labs Cafeteria, New York, 1943: His high pitched voice already stood out above the general murmur of well-behaved junior executives grooming…

— Alan Turing

We're headed for collapse, if you want my opinion, Missy. I can see it in the fallin' off of the quality of…

— John Dos Passos

Military metaphors are rarely exact, but sending Republicans against Democrats when the issue hangs in the balance is nearly always as futile…

— Wesley Pruden

President Bush announced his new economic plan. The centerpiece was a proposed repeal of the dividend tax on stocks, a boon that…

— Jon Stewart

As financial market players know, advantage comes from reacting to news first. The same thing is true for all companies. When you…

— David Meerman Scott

The directors of such companies, however, being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be…

— Adam Smith

I think the Tata Group's greatest contribution to the growth of the Indian economy and Indian industry probably happened in the pre-independence…

— Ratan Tata

You go ask any founder of any company why he or she did it, you will never hear, "I wanted to create…

— Rush Limbaugh

ECW's legacy will be as the company who took all the mistfits that nobody else wanted, and created stars.

— Dawn Marie Psaltis

We really believe that Walt Disney is a very able company with great depth and a great set of franchises.

— Anonymous

We have ripped the humanity out of our companies. It's threatening the very underpinnings of our society.

— Paul Tudor Jones

We are always chasing after things that other companies won't touch. That is a big secret to our success.

— Norio Ohga

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

When you lose your freedom, you lose, first and foremost, the opportunity to choose the company you keep.

— Masha Gessen

Being a starving company isn't fun for anyone. Most that go away need to go away... but certainly not all.

— Mike Wilson

My goal is to change NXT. It is to change every company I've ever been to, and I've changed every company.

— Matt Riddle

I started out as a receptionist. I typed, I filed, I answered the phones for a little nine-person company.

— Carly Fiorina

The challenge is not just to build a company that can endure; but to build one that is worthy of enduring.

— James C. Collins

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

— Tim Armstrong

Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.

— Marian McPartland

The obligation of every ethical management is to make sure we optimize the long-term value of the company.

— Jeff Bewkes

When people laugh at a company or say, 'This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard,' you are listening.

— Fred Wilson

Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market

— E. F. Schumacher

It’s not about making money for themselves or the company, but making a difference in the lives of others.

— Don Yaeger