Company Quotes

God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion.

It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain.

Wherever you may seek solitude, men will ferret you out and compel you to belong to their desperate company of oddfellows.

On the whole, Chaucer impresses us as greater than his reputation, and not a little like Homer and Shakespeare, for he would haveheld up his head in their company.

A company that does not produce anything other than money is a poor business

One, I love the creativity. I love the ability to create a capital structure that is appropriate for a company, no matter what field it happens to be in.

To see change in your own area code is very powerful. There's a little orphanage down the street from my company, and we donate $1 from the sale of each CD we sell to the orphanage.

If an American company has a drop of patriotic blood coursing through its system, then surely it would set up in America and employ Americans, right?

I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.

While we are a coffee company at heart, Starbucks provides much more than the best cup of coffee—we offer a community gathering place where people come together to connect and discover new things.

When you're building a business or joining a company you have to be transparent, you can't have two sets of information for two sets of people.

The companies that are lasting are those that are authentic.

When you start a company, it's a singular focus. You have the wind at your back.

We think of Starbucks not as a coffee company but a media company.

It causes me great pain to sue the company I work for. Nevertheless, I had to do it. Suffice it to say, there's a dispute and I believe I haven't been given what is mine.

Most importantly, we want to create a company where every employee can bring their whole selves to work.

When I was president of the company, I said, 'Okay, I can do this - piece of cake.' Then when you are the CEO, the responsibilities multiply enormously because you worry about everything.

The best thing a company can do for the communities in which it operates is to have a vibrant and sustainable business.

What a test that is: more than devotion, admiration, passion. If you long and long for someone’s company you love them.

You can't be an entrepreneur and work in a public company anymore.

Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.

I have worked with several dance companies.

If you chose to serve in Congress or on a congressional staff, you should be barred for life from working for any company, organization, or association which lobbies the federal government.

If a company is distributing images and video then obviously they need bandwidth solutions. But if they are looking to the mass market then they must develop WAP sites.

I think Yahoo is a great company, with great assets.

Your goal, in other words, should be to make your bosses smarter, your team more effective, and the whole company more competitive because of your energy, creativity, and insights.

...I think that ideally that is how a company works. It becomes a place of ideas, not a place of position.

Make winners out of every business in your company. Don't carry losers.

Leading a big company means never allowing a company to take itself too seriously.

The main social responsibility for a company is to win.

A company has only so much money and managerial time. Winning leaders invest where the payback is the highest. They cut their losses everywhere else.

It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.

To have a Welch-caliber C.E.O. is impressive.To have a century of Welch-Caliber C.E.O.'s all grown from the inside - well, that is one key reason why G.E. is a visionary 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

Unions are at a disadvantage in a company vote because the employees can see that the greatest advocates of unionization are often the malcontents and marginal workers.

Companies are not ingenious, it's the people in them that are.

I am about as pro-Google a person as you're going to find in the media. I've had friends at all levels of the company since its founding, and still do now.

I like well to be in the company of explorers

Companies often become victims of their own mythologies.

Companies, like people, don't much like to change.

Our commercial bank [JPMorgan] is only in the U.S. We are serving what you call SMEs - small businesses, private companies.

In Ireland there’s no such thing as bad weather ~~~ only the wrong clothes. (In the Company of Others)

Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be where I like and with whom I like, and the devil may take the rest, say I.

I think the best evenings are when we have messages, things that make us think, but we can also laugh and enjoy each other's company.

They [the Kochs] want free trade and cheap labour. They own the second-largest private company in America, which is a huge multinational corporation. So they are on a different wavelength.

My first job was for a blue jean company as a sitting model. I posed for 15 minutes and made $50. It was 1976.

When you are living your dreams it doesn’t feel like work, but it’s important to take some time away for yourself. It’s goot to make some time for your own company.

Average people push great people out of a company.

Valentines day are coming up and a German company has made chokolate in shapes of couples making love. I don't like them... I don't want my chokolate to have more fun than me.

Warren Buffett's company reportedly owes the IRS a billion dollars in back taxes. When he said he wasn't paying enough taxes, he wasn't kidding.