Company Quotes · Page 130

It's like athletes: To be a great company you need great competitors...It's what keeps you alive and keeps you honest.

— Craig R. Barrett

The sports apparel industry was dominated by the big shoe companies. But there was a void in apparel and I decided to…

— Kevin Plank

My chair was nearest to the fire In every company That talked of love or politics, Ere Time transfigured me.

— William Butler Yeats

Watching a company develop is like watching a puppy grow. When you can watch something grow that you created - it's really…

— Brody Jenner

Comic book companies are like comic book villains; they keep coming back after they die.

— Jim Steranko

You can establish a presence on the internet; you can have just as much of a presence as a major company or…

— Lester Bowie

Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationships is.

— Evan Williams

The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're…

— Warren Buffett

Washington is broken. Bailing out Wall Street with no strings attached while leaving middle class Arkansas taxpayers with the bill. Protecting insurance…

— Bill Halter

Good people have always been at the heart of the Virgin business, and that's largely because we have tried to keep our…

— Richard Branson

How you feel about the modern, multitouch tablet depends a lot on what you think Steve Jobs and company set out to…

— Walt Mossberg

Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend…

— Virginia Woolf

I am not sure any of the material in Leadership BS would be helpful for small companies and certainly not their owners.…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

I think Facebook is an extraordinarily important part of the Internet ecosystem, and having a robust presence there is a critical part…

— John Battelle

There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don't like to do just the things I like to…

— Michael Dell

Energy companies, such as Chevron and Shell, and oil producing countries, such as Kuwait and Venezuela, pump crude oil from their vast…

— Gary Miller

I remember watching Swan Lake and everybody looking exactly the same, but being able to relate because they were the only company…

— Joan Chen

The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code…

— Stephen Kinzer

Bottom Line: Business is all about Building Relationships! If you want to make More Money and Enjoy More Lifestyle, You Have to…

— Harvey Mackay

to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words...the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the…

— Anonymous

I gave a talk on gender stuff at Facebook one morning and a man didn't come. It was optional; he didn't have…

— Sheryl Sandberg

Supporters of this fundamental change in immigration policy say we need to import more well-educated talent if we're to stay competitive. But…

— Ronald Reagan

We believe that there is no greater power in the world than the force of a great idea. We believe that people…

— John A. Byrne

I sound awful saying it but I think it can be like that. I see a lot of people in unstimulating relationships.…

— Laura Marling

I have also made this a point in our company: We need to stop taking baby steps and start thinking globally. It…

— Ratan Tata

HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous.

— Alice Walker

I started out here in Colorado as a geologist. During a downturn, everyone in our company got laid off.

— John Hickenlooper

Just by being private, the culture will change. We won't be forced to make decisions that are 90 days in relevance.

— Sam Zell

The companies I have traditionally seen do best over the long term had lead investors for their seed rounds

— Keith Rabois

I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I've tried to really stress…

— Larry Page

My team is the best, the platoon is good, the company is awful, and the battalion is actively trying to kill us.

— Nathaniel Fick

Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen…

— Michael Caine

I've reached the point where tedium is a person, the incarnate fiction of my own company.

— Fernando Pessoa

I believe in a company that combines service and product offerings which are a bit different from other industries.

— Borje Ekholm

I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.

— Anonymous

You want to be the last company in a category. Those are the ones that are really valuable.

— Peter Thiel

Great companies are defined by their discipline and their understanding of who they are and who they are not.

— Howard Schultz

If you were the boss of a company and some of the employees of your company were known to sexually abuse children,…

— Sinead O'Connor

I built a tremendous company and all I want to do is make America great again.

— Donald Trump

At a small company, so much of the trick is focus. Not only can you only do a finite number of things,…

— Ben Silbermann