Company Quotes
However small a company, its founders should try to expand people's opportunities and choices.
It is not for me (to decide). It is up to the company to decide whether the price is fair or not.
Because I don't see Virgin as a company but as a way of life and I fully enjoy it, I don't think I'll ever retire.
Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.
First of all, if you're setting up a new company, you want to try to find a brand that can work on a global basis.
I never learned the rules in the first place. To change the game is at the heart of what Virgin stands for, so the company culture has always been: "Don't sweat it: rules were meant to be broken."
Our company has indeed stumbled onto some of its new products. But never forget that you can only stumble if you're moving.
Usually people who are in my position, they run a company and they hire people and then they take the credit for it.
I had spent years working in radio at different stations in Toronto; I wasn't in the stage company of Second City.
If you rent a U-Haul to move your company, it costs twice as much to go from San Francisco to Austin than the other way around, because you can't find enough trucks to leave the Golden State.
Notional is a production company with the DNA of an Internet company that makes content for everything.
I don't know how this company got the name National Shakespeare Company, because it was literally like retards employing retards.
Ridley Scott's company makes great work in whatever arena, whether it's movies or commercials or television. They just do really quality stuff, so you know it's going to be quality.
Customer-centricity should be about delivering value for customers that will eventually create value for the company.
When you're running a company, creating jobs is the last thing you want to. When you're running a company you want to employ as few people as possible, and yet you inadvertently create jobs.
The normal Hollywood approach is to have a super-charged production company and then go to the studios for distribution and marketing.
Advertising is the spur on the flank that keeps modern company-helping economy out of hand till the day common sense is restored, if ever it happens.
Currently, I'm working with a company called DRL Promotions with my partners Dan Wise and Luis De Cubas. We're currently representing over 30 fighters.
Cigars should be like onions," she said, unfastening the catch and pushing back the pane. "Either the whole company does, or the whole company does not.
Do I want to start my own production company? No, I doubt it. I'm too old for that. I don't want to start anything.
I try getting in front of as many opportunities as possible, but in the late '90s, I had no idea that I'd end up being CFO of a technology company. I'd no idea what venture capital was.
Founders should think of their company as a product and build it and shape it with the same passion and care.
If you don't have trust inside your company, then you can't transfer it to your customers.
When I started Cove, I spoke to three immigration lawyers who gave me a long checklist of things to do before my company could hire immigrants.
For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values.
Climate change and energy use are global problems - News Corp is a global company. Our operations affect the environment all over the world.
Animals, children, and the working class comprise the company in which I'll feel most at ease.
The best source by far for hiring is people that you already know and people that other employees in the company already know.
Later, you should learn to hire fast and scale up the company, but in the early days the goal should be not to hire. Not to hire.
Why now, why is this the perfect time for this particular idea, and to start this particular company?
You want to think about what is the path for my first 10 or 15 employees going to be as the company grows.
You should think about for the next 10 years, you're going to be giving out 3-5% of the company every year.
We talk to a team they've gotten new things done, that's the best predictor we have that a company will be successful.
... you can think about that for everyone you hire: will I bet the future of this company on this single hire? And that's a tough bar.
You have to save the vision speeches for when the company is winning. When you're not winning, you just have to get momentum back.
You need to have a culture where people have very high quality standards in everything the company does, but still move quickly.
Most good founders that I know at any given time have a set of small overarching goals for the company that everybody in the company knows.
Another way of looking at this, is that the best companies are almost always mission oriented.
Whatever the founder cares about, whatever the founders think are the key goals, that's going to be what the whole company focusses on.
... if you talk to say any of the first 40 or 50 employees, they all feel like they were a part of the founding of the company.
There are exceptions of course, but most companies start with a great idea - not a pivot.
We pretty much won't fund a company now where the founders don't have vested equity because it's just that hard to do.