Company Quotes

The plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company.

I think Fast Company has a tremendously smart focus and execution.

Dan Curtis, our producer, has the idea that people like to see a stock company of actors.

I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.

We were a fast-growing company, and I was a demanding boss.

Our investments in data, Internet and international have been particularly timely and have positioned the company to post industry-leading incremental revenue gains.

I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.

If the U.S. Government was a company, the deficit would be $5 trillion because they would have to account by general accepted accounting principles. But actually they encourage government spending, reckless government spending, because the government can issue Treasury bills at extremely low interest rates.

Bananarama were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press.

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.

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

Better be alone than in bad company.

We are all going to Heaven, and Vandyke is of the company.

I like the opportunity to travel the world and work in close company with other people.

A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.

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.

The opportunity for an entrepreneur to start a company from scratch today is abysmal.

Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?

HAG Records, is a company that I've owned. I've had a couple of gospel releases on it. We developed a pretty good distribution setup there and we do have something to use in case they don't want to sign us.

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.

It doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is - what matters is its relative 'share of customer value' in the final product or solution, and its cost of producing that value.

To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.

You don't have to invent the wheel, but you might want to be the company that invents the rims.

I had worked at Disney since they bought the company that I had worked for, ABC in the mid-90s.

If we give people the ability to buy a lot more because they can store a lot more, for a company that creates TV shows and movies, that's fantastic.

Are there challenges? Absolutely. But in aggregate, this is a very strong and valuable company.

We like the size of the company today given the environment and have no plans to split it up and make it smaller.

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

If there's one thing I really want for my birthday, that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy's reserve.

It's difficult to do something radically new, unless you are at the heart of a company.

I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost.

Apple Computer would not have reached its current peak of success if it had feared to roll the dice and launch products that didn't always hit the mark. In the mid-1990s, the company was considered washed up, Steve Jobs had departed, and a string of lackluster product launches unrelated to the company's core business.

Go where your customers take you! For example, did you know that Sony's first product was a rice cooker? Since abandoning the rice cooker, it has merely managed to become the world's biggest consumer electronics company.

It's really easy to create a $1 billion company - you just have to solve a $10 billion problem.

I have been with the record company and Tommy was there doing records with other people.

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

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

It's not about charisma and personality, it's about results and products and those very bedrock things that are why people at Apple and outside of Apple are getting more excited about the company and what Apple stands for and what its potential is to contribute to the industry.

The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only company that has everything under one roof.

Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.

The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

I am very proud to follow the rules of our company.

DC used to print up all of their pages, they were the only company that did it.

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

Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.

When we give a subsidy, the benefits to the public ought to exceed the benefits to the company. When it doesn't, that's our definition of corporate welfare.

A company like DreamWorks, all we do is make product. That's all we do. We don't own distribution. We are purely in the creation of content.

I hated being a public company CEO.

A 50-year-old company can innovate as well as two guys/gals in a garage.

I would love to play Lee in 'True West' and Bobby in 'Company.'

I believe the director's primary role is to create an atmosphere where his company can be created.

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

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

When I was about seven, I started touring the globe as part of New York's La MaMa theater company - without my parents!

I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

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

Misery loves company. This is a Hollywood soap opera, and I'm not going to be a star in another Bryant soap opera.

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

People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.

You have to want to be in the company of those you're making films about.

I'm pushing ahead on my own - you no longer need a large record company to make you a star.

If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.

I think that Subway has shown their own personal commitment as a company and how they believe in healthy choices.

And at NYU, I went to the Atlantic Theater Company, and they have two main points. One of them is to always be active in something instead of just feeling it. And the other is figuring out your character.

If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

Any company has got to reinvent itself again and again.

I'm a hard-nosed businessman, that if a company is paying its way, increasing profits for thirty-odd consecutive years, you don't put it into receivership.

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

This kid's excited because he's with Bad Company and I'm excited because I'm with Chuck Berrys' son.

If a company is second rate, the logo will eventually be perceived as second rate. It is foolhardy to believe that a logo will do its job immediately, before an audience has been properly conditioned.

Essentially, you have to be aware of a crisis happening: 'Can the company go on if I get hit by a bus?' That's, I think, how you build a great company and something that can scale.

Misery loves company.

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

It's my company and I believe in the company that's why I started it.