300 Quotes on Company

• We're running the company to serve more people.

  Author: Mark Zuckerberg

• When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.

  Author: Roger Zelazny

• I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.

  Author: Jay Z

• They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off.

  Author: Cole Younger

• Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.

  Author: William Wycherley

• Women serve but to keep a man from better company.

  Author: William Wycherley

• I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.

  Author: Steven Wright

• The more we thought, the more they all sounded boring compared to Apple. You didn't have to have a real specific reason for choosing a name when you were a little tiny company of two people; you choose any name you want.

  Author: Steve Wozniak

• But I know newspapers. They have the first amendment and they can tell any lie knowing it's a lie and they're protected if the person's famous or it's a company.

  Author: Steve Wozniak

• For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.

  Author: Steve Wozniak

• No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.

  Author: Mary Wortley

• There's a guy at the record company who's 30, and he says, I would not listen to these songs except in this context. Somehow the recording process, the arrangements, make it more accessible.

  Author: Tom Wopat

• Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make.

  Author: Dick Wolf

• Being a starving company isn't fun for anyone. Most that go away need to go away... but certainly not all.

  Author: Mike Wilson

• For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• That co-operation and peace rather than industrial strife and strikes will best promote the prosperity of the employees the company and all of the people and even strengthen the nation.

  Author: Charles Wilson

• I'm a partner in a company called Helicopter Services and Instruction out of New Jersey.

  Author: Treat Williams

• The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn't be bothered with looking a certain way. So I left the business. I don't regret it.

  Author: Kim Wilde

• We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell.

  Author: Barry White

• No partnership between two independent companies, no matter how well run, can match the speed, effectiveness, responsiveness and efficiency of a solely owned company.

  Author: Edward Whitacre, Jr.

• Without aggression, it becomes possible to think well, to be curious about differences, and to enjoy each other's company.

  Author: Margaret Wheatley

• It's like, it's up to the people to fall in love with the song. The record company can only do so much.

  Author: Paul Westerberg

• Can we ever really know anyone well? Let's just say we often found ourselves in each other's company and neither of us minded.

  Author: Bernard Werber

• Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.

  Author: Jack Welch

• If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.

  Author: Jack Welch

• Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

  Author: Jack Welch

• From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness.

  Author: Sanford Weill

• Our company is working with Disney to create a game for children between the ages of maybe four and 12, so we can teach them what the capitalist system is all about.

  Author: Sanford Weill

• I've been very fortunate to be able to jump around. I just did this really wonderful film called Map of the World. That was a real, amazing, dramatic story. Then I did a movie called Company Men, a little comedy about the Bay of Pigs.

  Author: Sigourney Weaver

• I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine.

  Author: Naomi Watts

• Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?

  Author: Thomas Watson, Sr.

• You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

  Author: Thomas Watson

• Time Warner has been managed for the short term. This has damaged the company's fundamental competitive position and its prospects for growth. This approach has cost shareholders a staggering $40 billion.

  Author: Bruce Wasserstein

• Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

  Author: George Washington

• It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

  Author: George Washington

• It is better to be alone than in bad company.

  Author: George Washington

• Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

  Author: Booker Washington

• We started the company out of frustration with the employer that we had because we were building great stuff and there was no way that this stuff was ever going to get into the hands of the people who could use it.

  Author: John Warnock

• If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company.

  Author: Sela Ward

• There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

  Author: Sam Walton

• Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

  Author: Izaak Walton

• I am not a sort of person who wants to run a company.

  Author: Larry Wall

• 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.

  Author: Robert Wagner

• I just try not to subscribe to the ways of celebrity. I'm not a celebrity, I'm a working actor. A lot of the events - the parties and the premieres that people go to to get noticed - I'm just not into. I'll hang out with my friends, go see punk shows, read at home. At the same time, I have a production company, which is a lot of work.

  Author: Milo Ventimiglia

• I'm a big believer that it doesn't matter what you call your company, nobody ever notices.

  Author: Matthew Vaughn

• So it takes years to make a solid company.

  Author: Ninette Valois

• It was always something I knew I was capable of and from an early age my mother was involved in the film industry. She used to work at a production company. So I was exposed to a renaissance period of films in New Zealand back in the early 80's.

  Author: Karl Urban

• Being a part of SKECHERS is exciting. It is such a hip company with a great attitude and image.

  Author: Carrie Underwood

• Every time I release an album my old record company releases another one.

  Author: Bonnie Tyler

• Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

  Author: Mark Twain

• No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

  Author: Alan Turing

• The East India Company's domination of the Indian economy was based on its private army.

  Author: Robert Trout

• The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.

  Author: Robert Trout

• Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.

  Author: Anthony Trollope

• Your company's most valuable asset is how it is known to its customers.

  Author: Brian Tracy

• We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company.

  Author: Lily Tomlin

• Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them.

  Author: Ernst Toller

• If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• So ensuring the integrity of the data and integrity and validity of the connection is a very important element in any company's strategy that is moving towards a Web service paradigm.

  Author: John Thompson

• Well we have a good working relationship with Microsoft at the development level. But let's not kid ourselves, this is a company with enormous resources and talented people, and there is a certain pride that comes along with that for them and for us.

  Author: John Thompson

• Even President Bush has cited the need to outlaw the practice of corporations making loans to their officers. Strangely enough, when the President was a corporate officer, he took out several loans from the company.

  Author: Bennie Thompson

• But a large symphony orchestra basically is a repertory company and it has a very enormous repertoire and it is important for the performers to be able to know how to shift focus so that they instantly become part of the sound world that a particular repertoire demands.

  Author: Michael Thomas

• The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

  Author: William Temple

• Indeed, the whole company, although thin in flesh, and generally of slight forms, and limbs, especially, are as good looking and intelligent a body of men as we usually meet with.

  Author: Lewis Tappan

• I love this company. I don't know how it was selected. It's a bunch of machers. They mean business.

  Author: Jeffrey Tambor

• Do I regret taking the company public? Yes and no. Yes, because it put us under enormous pressure for a young company to go public at that point in its history, something you never could have done in the old days.

  Author: David Talbot

• On the other hand, we raised $25 million by going public. It's that money that we used to build this company, to build the circulation, to build a high profile and to hire staff that made Salon what it is today.

  Author: David Talbot

• Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

  Author: Jonathan Swift

• Why should a company like Wal-Mart - who made $10 billion last year alone - be able to force taxpayers to foot the bill for their health-care costs?

  Author: John Sweeney

• To let her dail would be the greatest profit both for the company and for the merchants.

  Author: Peter Stuyvesant

• The story of my very first sale is the fact that I dreamed up a foolproof paper to cheat an insurance company out of several hundred thousand dollars.

  Author: Theodore Sturgeon

• Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year.

  Author: Howard Stringer

• I'm not fit company for man or beast.

  Author: Billy Strayhorn

• One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise.

  Author: Patrick Stewart

• The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.

  Author: Patrick Stewart

• The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies.

  Author: Fisher Stevens

• At our company, our Design and Construction Consulting Service Team not only helps eliminate the risks inherent in the construction process, they typically save our clients 5% - 10% on overall construction costs. They also help make sure projects come in on time.

  Author: Roger Staubach

• It's not like it used to be where everybody has a record company to belong to.

  Author: Edwin Starr

• It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.

  Author: Bruce Springsteen

• Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.

  Author: Wole Soyinka

• I always knew how to cook and at one point in my career where I had done nine television pilots before Three's Company and they all failed, I just got discouraged.

  Author: Suzanne Somers

• I respectfully suggest the propriety of having stationed at the arsenal a full company of U. S. troops, that they may be made available in any emergency, from fire, insurrection, or any thing else.

  Author: Thomas Smith

• Live always in the best company when you read.

  Author: Sydney Smith

• Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

  Author: Logan Smith

• We have a great time on that show, and we enjoy one another's company on stage and off. And sitcoms don't have bad schedules. We started out working five days a week, but now we're down to three.

  Author: Kurtwood Smith

• There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

  Author: Elliott Smith

• In the fall of the year 2000, there just happened to be a decision point when they asked me to become Chief Executive Officer of the company. It was a time when, as you remember, we were starting to have some real problems in the California energy markets.

  Author: Jeffrey Skilling

• We were building a - what I thought was a fantastic company. We had great people. We were changing - we were changing the way the marketplace operated. We were creating a market for natural gas and electricity that had never existed before.

  Author: Jeffrey Skilling

• I thought the stock was a great buy. I think anybody that bought the stock in 1999 was - saw over the next couple of years a strong growth. During the year of 1999, I significantly increased my ownership of shares in the company.

  Author: Jeffrey Skilling

• Are the things that now, in retrospect, with what I've seen happen to my company, would I have done some things differently? I think - I think we all would do - we would do a number of things differently.

  Author: Jeffrey Skilling

• We are a company that promotes 100% within the company.

  Author: James Sinegal

• The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.

  Author: Paul Simon

• I can pretty much call anyone, whether at the White House, in a company or in the media. I have access, because of the silliness of the entertainment world and how people react to it. It gave me an enormous opportunity to do anything I really want to.

  Author: Andrew Shue

• Everyone is really getting along with each other and we enjoy each others company and love playing live.

  Author: Billy Sherwood

• It would be great some day to have astronauts in a rover on Mars. But just about anyone except an oil company executive would say its more important to have 50 million solar powered vehicles in the United States.

  Author: Brad Sherman

• I was unaware of the dispute in Brooklyn. I would never knowingly wear any clothes or support any company who produced clothing with alleged wage and labor violations.

  Author: Shakira

• The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.

  Author: William Shakespeare

• I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water.

  Author: Thomas Shadwell

• For example, in my own State of Arizona, an Israeli scientist is working with an Arizona company on a demonstration project involving a very fast-growing algae which can be used to power a biomass energy plan.

  Author: John Shadegg

• The Hudson's Bay Company has always been the guardian angel of the north.

  Author: Ernest Seton

• The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers.

  Author: Ernest Seton

• He shall sit solitary by avoiding the company of men, he shall hold his peace by meditating upon the joys of heaven, and he has risen above his state by tasting celestial delights.

  Author: Saint Sequoyah

• The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

  Author: Lucius Seneca

• Yahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising.

  Author: Terry Semel

• I don't think that Yahoo or any other Internet company should try to become a television network. We will be nowhere if we have to create our own content.

  Author: Terry Semel

• I myself am a builder and get totally excited about building Yahoo! as a brand and building it into a bigger and better company. That's what I intend to do.

  Author: Terry Semel

• I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen.

  Author: John Sebastian

• I am looking forward to being part of the E! team. This unique opportunity allows my company to take the next step in providing multimedia content.

  Author: Ryan Seacrest

• And the greeter is what sets the tone for this company and I've been on TV a little bit this morning.

  Author: Lee Scott

• I expect that our associates will walk with a little more bounce in their step and understand that this company is behind them and has respect for them.

  Author: Lee Scott

• I just think that it's maybe fashionable today to try to take individual actions and individual failures and take the broadest possible brush and try to paint a company.

  Author: Lee Scott

• Every actor I ever meet goes, 'Ultimately I plan on having my own company and write and direct,' but yes, I too would love to write and direct a movie. I want to do a play, too. I want to do it all.

  Author: Jason Schwartzman

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

  Author: Charles Schumer

• Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.

  Author: E. Schumacher

• I never had many problems to do my music and to give it to a record company. Rarely do they try to argue with me about my music, probably because it's still too far-out.

  Author: Klaus Schulze

• The record company started as an adjunct to that, to give young composers their first recorded performances; to give young musicians their first debut on a recording. These are all things that big record companies would never touch because there is no money in it!

  Author: Gunther Schuller

• Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

  Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

• 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.

  Author: Bob Schieffer

• Sister Virginia used to say, 'You'll be known by the company you keep.'

  Author: Michael Scheuer

• I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials.

  Author: Devon Sawa

• Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.

  Author: George Savile

• If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

  Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

• So It's not like I go from being this disciplined person who has to get up and go to work to now I just lay around all day in my underwear eating Cheerios. I have this structure. I still have to do this and the difference is I'm doing this for me and my company.

  Author: Eriq Salle

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

  Author: Eriq Salle

• Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it does with pure storytelling. So that people come and say: it's not just the building, it's the only place you can hear this kind of work.

  Author: Mark Rylance

• I now work for a finance company in Luxembourg with projects in South America and the Caribbean.

  Author: Mathias Rust

• I was never a leading man. I've always been in the outer concentric circles in the company, being a character actor, which is a good place to be. It gives you that diversity.

  Author: Geoffrey Rush

• You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.

  Author: Steve Ross

• As a small company our fastest way to market was going to be by working with other retailers that were known for pioneering new technologies and categories.

  Author: David Rose

• We target people who understand that relationships are the lifeline of a small company.

  Author: David Rose

• And our size: The company this year is going to be close to $50 billion, so if that's the case and you can continue to grow that fast, I would rather put my energies to solving customer problems and growing our business than worrying about integrating and laying people off.

  Author: Kevin Rollins

• I am sure there will come a time when we are going to use AMD. The products have been getting better. The acceptance is getting better. But we have not been suffering as a company for either growth or profitability because we haven't had AMD.

  Author: Kevin Rollins

• What we learned several years ago was that one of our weaknesses would be if we didn't develop enough people with the know-how to run our company, it would come to the point where we would just stop.

  Author: Kevin Rollins

• The weakness in the company is if we fail to execute.

  Author: Kevin Rollins

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

  Author: Will Rogers

• The price of a commodity will never go to zero. When you invest in commodities futures, you're not buying a piece of paper that says you own an intangible piece of company that can go bankrupt.

  Author: Jim Rogers

• But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth.

  Author: Anita Roddick

• I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in.

  Author: Anita Roddick

• The money that we make from the company goes into The Body Shop Foundation, which isn't one of those awful tax shelters like some in America. It just functions to take the money and give it away.

  Author: Anita Roddick

• You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.

  Author: Arthur Rock

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

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

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

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• And I was asked if I would come and help with the recovery of this great British company, Cable and Wireless, and I'm delighted to become part of the new and very talented management that have been brought in to that company as well.

  Author: Lord Robertson

• When buying shares, ask yourself, would you buy the whole company?

  Author: Rene Rivkin

• Alan's publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where all the songwriters hung out because that's where all the publishers were.

  Author: Johnny Rivers

• If I found a cure for a huge disease, while I was hobbling up onstage to accept the Nobel Prize they'd be playing the theme song from 'Three's Company'.

  Author: John Ritter

• Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me.

  Author: Little Richard

• A month after the scandal broke, I tried to go back to work at the pharmaceutical company after a leave of absence. But because of all the publicity and resulting pressure and stress, I finally resigned.

  Author: Donna Rice

• In 1979 I teamed up with my friend and business partner, Bill DeWitt, and together we formed an oil and gas company that invested through limited partnerships in oil and gas exploration.

  Author: Mercer Reynolds

• During my participation in the Manhattan Project and subsequent research at Los Alamos, encompassing a period of fifteen years, I worked in the company of perhaps the greatest collection of scientific talent the world has ever known.

  Author: Frederick Reines

• It's basic due diligence to make sure that whenever a foreign entity acquires a controlling interest in a U.S. company that national security isn't threatened.

  Author: Dave Reichert

• Viacom's results for the first quarter put the company on a fast track for another record year in 2004.

  Author: Sumner Redstone

• It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.

  Author: Helen Reddy

• Misery loves company.

  Author: John Ray

• I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company.

  Author: Tony Randall

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

  Author: Mick Ralphs

• The President's announcement sounded less like a national energy plan than like a page from an election-year play book. This Administration's plan to reduce obscene oil company profits is to regulate them less.

  Author: Nick Rahall

• Misery is the company of lawsuits.

  Author: Francois Rabelais

• The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.

  Author: Charley Pride

• We don't take a macro view... We'd look at every company to figure out if trade sanctions are helpful or hurtful.

  Author: Robert Pozen

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

  Author: Michael Porter

• The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.

  Author: Michael Porter

• I used to be pretty reckless. When I was a runner for a production company, I drove a massive 16 seater van. I was only 18. I mean I look young now, but then I looked about 12.

  Author: Gail Porter

• Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.

  Author: Michael Pollan

• Good taste is as tiring as good company.

  Author: Francis Picabia

• In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.

  Author: William Phelps

• Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

  Author: William Phelps

• If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.

  Author: Tom Peters

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

  Author: Tom Peters

• The King's son, who was told that a great princess, whom nobody knew, was come, ran out to receive her. He gave her his hand as she alighted from the coach, and led her into the hall where the company were assembled.

  Author: Charles Perrault

• Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a company dealing in printing and stationary, and my mother working as a secretary and then bookkeeper in a firm of wool merchants.

  Author: Martin Perl

• Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

  Author: Samuel Pepys

• 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.

  Author: James Penney

• There has never been a time when a career in the Penney Company was not a challenge that brought out the best in a man.

  Author: James Penney

• A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

  Author: Cesare Pavese

• 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.

  Author: David Packard

• I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.

  Author: Peter O'Toole

• I think Microsoft will have to change. I think that the business of Microsoft, the company of Microsoft, is going to continue to succeed. But I think the business model of Microsoft is going to have to change.

  Author: Tim O'Reilly

• I think we have the same goals in mind. We are not planning on just all of a sudden taking a film and separating. Hopefully one day she can direct me in something, or I will direct her. Or we'll produce a movie under our company's name.

  Author: Mary-Kate Olsen

• We've played producers almost our entire lives in everything else we've created. But when working on a feature and even dealing with something like Warner Bros. or another production company, or other details that you can worry about - we definitely learned a lot.

  Author: Mary-Kate Olsen

• 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.

  Author: David Ogilvy

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

  Author: David Ogilvy

• What pisses me off is when I've got seven or eight record company fat pig men sitting there telling me what to wear.

  Author: Sinead O'Connor

• When I was 13 years old, a professional theater company in my town needed a kid actor. I auditioned, and I got the part, so for just a few weeks I became a member of the company and I met some professional actors.

  Author: Trevor Nunn

• Peter Hall was just organizing the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was going to be an ensemble, it was going to be in repertory, it was going to have a home in London as well as in the Midlands, and all of those things were happening at that time.

  Author: Trevor Nunn

• Now, therefore, the Directors of the company are hereby ordered to see that precautions are taken to make travel on said railroad perfectly safe by using a screw with at least twenty-four inches diameter.

  Author: Joshua Norton

• I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.

  Author: Oliver North

• Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

  Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

• Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.

  Author: Gavin Newsom

• We tried to set up a company that patterned ourselves after Southwest in all the fun, the spirit, the great people, the smile, the efficiency side of it, but we've added some extras that people aren't used to finding on Southwest.

  Author: David Neeleman

• A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

  Author: George Nathan

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

  Author: Ralph Nader

• Ever since I was a little kid, whenever my parents would have company over, I would put on shows, whether they would be magic shows, singing shows, dancing shows, little skits.

  Author: Ellen Muth

• When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn't win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, I'm proud to be in this company that way.

  Author: Eddie Murray

• There's a line of dancers waiting to get into Sydney Dance Company.

  Author: Graeme Murphy

• It's not a company of exponents of my style.

  Author: Graeme Murphy

• And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.

  Author: Graeme Murphy

• I actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company.

  Author: Graeme Murphy

• I really think the acoustics that Gibson's been making for the last ten years or so are as good as any the company has ever produced and that's saying a lot.

  Author: Bill Mumy

• When you make a lot of money for a record company, they don't want you to evolve. Growing older, you naturally do.

  Author: Alison Moyet

• I build duets into bigger works. I like to see people working together. What we call a giant solo in my company is about four bars long while twenty other people are doing something dynamically. I like the charge that is set up by a lot of people doing something.

  Author: Mark Morris

• Our loss was very heavy, especially in the officers. Capt. Sale, of Co. E, Duke's regt, was among the killed, making the third Capt. that has been killed in that company.

  Author: John Morgan

• It was Grant's company and he made all the decisions. And that was just fine.

  Author: Mary Moore

• If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience.

  Author: Brian Moore

• As the contest proceeded, public interest increased and the entire country watched to see which company would win the big government subsidies through the mountains.

  Author: John Moody

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

  Author: Michel Montaigne

• We are working with a biotech company, Calypte, which has designed a urine test for the HIV antibody.

  Author: Luc Montagnier

• Shareholder activism is not a privilege - it is a right and a responsibility. When we invest in a company, we own part of that company and we are partly responsible for how that company progresses. If we believe there is something going wrong with the company, then we, as shareholders, must become active and vocal.

  Author: Mark Mobius

• Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.

  Author: Addison Mizner

• I'm an expert witness in a case that's in appeal about a guy who allegedly misappropriated source code from a major, major company - he actually worked there and then apparently they found it on his laptop later.

  Author: Kevin Mitnick

• If you're part of a record company, you're a manufactured product. It doesn't mean that you're not talented.

  Author: Kylie Minogue

• The growth of a company like ours tends to be a relatively steady because, like some of the other successful mixed signal companies, we have a wide range of products servicing a wide range of end applications.

  Author: David Milne

• We have been a fabless semiconductor company for a number of years now.

  Author: David Milne

• One of the attractive things about being in Scotland is that we have a very good pipeline of new people coming into the company from the excellent universities around us.

  Author: David Milne

• There is a wide range of opportunities for us and we see a main part of our strategy as being a company that supplies products across a range of different end applications and indeed we have quite a wide product portfolio which we enhance each year.

  Author: David Milne

• Well, I think first of all, probably the most fundamental thing is that we are a mixed-signal analog semiconductor company, which, along with some of the other well-known names in the industry, enjoys very good economics.

  Author: David Milne

• It is first and foremost very hard work! But I have a wonderful part and I do have fun. The company, cast and crew of 'Passions' are wonderful to work with.

  Author: Juliet Mills

• The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc.

  Author: C. Mills

• As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions, writing reports.

  Author: Merton Miller

• Being the first to do something like this also registers a lot of attention that the line might not have gotten if all four books had just appeared from one company.

  Author: Mark Millar

• Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising.

  Author: Robert Menzies

• Socrates' fame spread all over Greece, and the most respected and educated men from all around came to him, in order to enjoy his friendly company and instruction.

  Author: Moses Mendelssohn

• A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business.

  Author: John Mellencamp

• When Jackie got his big contract at CBS and was putting together what turned out to be almost a stock company of players, he remembered Frank and said, 'Get me that kid who played the jail sketch.'

  Author: Audrey Meadows

• Cats have it all - admiration, an endless sleep, and company only when they want it.

  Author: Rod McKuen

• In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it!

  Author: Bryant McGill

• It's always push and pull with a record company.

  Author: Mike McCready

• Irishmen are not reserved, and the company appeared dying to be intimately acquainted.

  Author: William Maxwell

• I don't want a record company, but I need one, unfortunately.

  Author: Melissa Maur

• When I do an album I try to find a producer that's excited about something that they want me to sing, and I check with the record company to find out what they think they can sell - which is their No. 1 priority.

  Author: Johnny Mathis

• I suspect that we might actually start selling some records with these artists in about 10 years. Some the people who invested, they're a little tight-because it's a lot of money to start up a company.

  Author: Branford Marsalis

• I created a production company. Right now I am so happy in my work.

  Author: Marla Maples

• For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.

  Author: Thomas Mann

• And much more am I sorrier for my good knights' loss than for the loss of my fair queen; for queens I might have enough, but such a fellowship of good knights shall never be together in no company.

  Author: Thomas Malory

• In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color.

  Author: Catharine MacKinnon

• I think you have to learn that there's a company behind every stock, and that there's only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies.

  Author: Peter Lynch

• There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

  Author: Martin Luther

• When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.

  Author: Bela Lugosi

• We never let go. Ever. Even with punctuation. It's frightening. I can't see anyone from any record company ever writing an email to Neil and not getting it back, with corrections.

  Author: Chris Lowe

• I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs.

  Author: Lyle Lovett

• Eventually though, I'd like to have my own production company. Then I could create great opportunities not only for myself, but for other actors as well.

  Author: Mario Lopez

• So, I lived at the Beijing Opera, I ate there, I learned a craft. And the money we made went into the company.

  Author: John Lone

• Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

  Author: Vince Lombardi

• Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.

  Author: David Lodge

• Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

  Author: John Locke

• I was looking to become more proactive with my career because I wasn't crazy with some of the scripts I was getting - this was before Blow and Hannibal - so I decided to start my own production company.

  Author: Ray Liotta

• So I decided to form a production company with my wife and our partner Diane.

  Author: Ray Liotta

• In our society a man is known by the company he owns.

  Author: Gerald Lieberman

• Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

  Author: Georg Lichtenberg

• I believe Business Objects is on the cusp of becoming a multi-billion-dollar sales company. There is tremendous growth potential for business intelligence.

  Author: Bernard Liautaud

• I can imagine wanting to work with this ensemble and this company always.

  Author: James Levine

• I've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better looking.

  Author: Hugh Leonard

• I had always thought of starting my own record company. I haven't regretted the decision - yet!

  Author: Julian Lennon

• Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.

  Author: Tom Lehrer

• 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.

  Author: Fran Lebowitz

• Every company's greatest assets are its customers, because without customers there is no company.

  Author: Michael LeBoeuf

• But I can't take responsibility for criminal conduct of somebody inside the company.

  Author: Kenneth Lay

• We are looking for targets that have a tremendous strategic fit for the company. The colleges must have complementary education programs, have an excellent reputation, long operating history and solid regulatory compliance.

  Author: John Larson

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

  Author: Diane Lane

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

  Author: Walter Landor

• A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

  Author: Hedy Lamarr

• With In the Company of Men, the misogynist label stuck early and firmly. In the end, it probably did hurt the film a bit, because getting women into the theaters was difficult.

  Author: Neil LaBute

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

  Author: Neil LaBute

• There is nothing in the company that is either above or below me, as far as I'm concerned.

  Author: Sanjay Kumar

• Today we're focused on small acquisitions to add technology where necessary. I think it's fair to say we're not out looking for a large one, but I think it's also very fair to say that as a public company you can never say never.

  Author: Sanjay Kumar

• To me, it's really important to drive change through a team because one person, while the buck has to stop with somebody, the company is just too big for one person.

  Author: Sanjay Kumar

• Clearly, every company needs a leader. That's an important part of being the CEO of the company.

  Author: Sanjay Kumar

• Look, don't congratulate us when we buy a company, congratulate us when we sell it. Because any fool can overpay and buy a company, as long as money will last to buy it.

  Author: Henry Kravis

• But once you buy a company, you are married. You are married to that company.

  Author: Henry Kravis

• It's not just buying the company. Sure, we picked the right companies, and we picked the right management and, most importantly, we've given them the right incentive to perform.

  Author: Henry Kravis

• 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.

  Author: Henry Kravis

• When a record company looks at me I'm very hard to market, I don't really fit anywhere, It's hard to get me on the air, and I'm hard to demography, but! because of that I'm not subject to trends like you pointed out.

  Author: Leo Kottke

• During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.

  Author: Walter Kohn

• So why sign your name in blood for more? It seemed like a sensible arrangement for me. I didn't sell large numbers of records and the record company paid advances they rarely recouped.

  Author: David Knopfler

• We wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour.

  Author: Philip Knight

• Harley-Davidson is the finest company in the world.

  Author: Evel Knievel

• The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it.

  Author: Nigel Kneale

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

  Author: Calvin Klein

• No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.

  Author: Calvin Klein

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

  Author: Jack Kilby

• It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.

  Author: Jack Kilby

• It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.

  Author: Jack Kilby

• In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back.

  Author: Thomas Keneally

• A company is stronger if it is bound by love rather than by fear.

  Author: Herb Kelleher

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

  Author: Charles Keating

• 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.

  Author: Jeffrey Katzenberg

• The first syndicating I tried was when two partners and I created a production company in 1952. We wanted to syndicate famous Bible stories and sell them for $25 a show.

  Author: Casey Kasum

• 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.

  Author: John Kasich

• I've often been asked to run for office. I have no desire to do that, I would not want my time with the family or the company restricted because of the demands of an elected position.

  Author: Carl Karcher

• 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.

  Author: Mitch Kapor

• Once, he was chosen to play Ram in a small Ramleela company, but his parents were against it.

  Author: Raj Kapoor

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

  Author: Philip Kaplan

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

  Author: Gil Kane

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

  Author: Ingvar Kamprad

• I want to leave this company in the best possible shape.

  Author: Karen Kain

• Avon is a unique place to work; we've got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company; 46 percent of our officers are women.

  Author: Andrea Jung

• Every company, every boardroom in which I sit, has a plan, and they have objectives, goals, and a process. And to make it work, the pressure and incentive have to come from the top.

  Author: Vernon Jordan

• Why should a horror film be just a horror film? To me, The Company of Wolves is a fairy tale; it's got all those elements plus a lot more. And we know that fairy tales aren't innocent any more.

  Author: Neil Jordan

• Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales.

  Author: Neil Jordan

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