Company Quotes

I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company.

No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn't.

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

The facts are the vice president's company that he was CEO of, that did business with sworn enemies of the United States, paid millions of dollars in fines for providing false financial information, it's under investigation for bribing foreign officials.

If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.

I knew that if I concentrated on AdBrite, I could probably make a big company out of it.

I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.

A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique.

One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for most of my life, is seeing how CEOs start to believe in their own infallibility. And that really scares me.

Without In The Company of Men, I could still be teaching, so who knows if this would've existed.

Yeah, I think that his great creation was not any one product but a company in which creativity was connected to great engineering. And that will survive at least while the current people who trained under Steve are there.

What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.

I am not going to be dictated to by fans, certainly. I am dictated enough to by my record company to last me a million years.

I've started a company, called Tall Girl Productions, and we've got our first project that is purely producing, not writing, with a writer named Evan Daugherty. It's for NBC, it's called 'Afterthought,' and it's science fiction-ish. That's fun.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

A lot of the people who have come to know the company in the last few years will not have seen this piece.

My greatest regret is selling my company.

Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply.

The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.

I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting.

It's a dream to be in a company of actors.

Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company.

On the 28th the ship's company received two months pay in advance, and on the following morning we worked out to St. Helen's, where we were obliged to anchor.

Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a company's existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being.

I used to get a sort of sociophobia, and I still get it sometimes these days when I'm in a confined space with too many people. It's not like I freak out or anything, it's just that I'm far more comfortable in my own company sometimes than being surrounded by one thousand strangers.

Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer.

The culmination of all of that was the decision to start a company, which became Lotus, to do a product, which became 1-2-3. By the time I reached that point it had been four years, and it felt like a lifetime, but really it was kind of evolutionary.

There's no other company that could make a MacBook Air and the reason is that not only do we control the hardware, but we control the operating system. And it is the intimate interaction between the operating system and the hardware that allows us to do that. There is no intimate interaction between Windows and a Dell notebook.

At the White House, everybody works for the same person. They're all part of the same company. But on Capitol Hill, they're all independent contractors. They all work for themselves. That's a formula for getting news.

People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.