“When I care about something, I care about something. I think I have an obligation as an American to - and as a citizen, as - as a human being, to help others. Smoking is going to kill a billion people this century. I've put six hundred million dollars from my own money into trying to stop the tobacco companies from getting kids to smoke and convincing adults that it's not in their health.” PeopleThinkingTryingHumansHelpingCareKidsMy OwnHuman BeingsCompanyMillionsCenturyCitizensSixHundredAdultsDollarsBillionsHelping OthersObligationSmokeSmokingI CareConvincingMillion DollarsTobacco Author:Michael Bloomberg
“Does it seem all but incredible to you that intelligence should travel for two thousand miles, along those slender copper lines, far down in the all but fathomless Atlantic; never before penetrated … save when some foundering vessel has plunged with her hapless company to the eternal silence and darkness of the abyss? Does it seem … but a miracle … that the thoughts of living men … should burn over the cold, green bones of men and women, whose hearts, once as warm as ours, burst as the eternal gulfs closed and roared over them centuries ago?” MenShouldHeartDoeTwoSeemsLinesSilenceCompanyDarknessCenturyColdThousandTravelOceanEternalMen And WomenMiracleGreenIncrediblesIntelligenceWarmBonesMilesAbyssVesselSlenderShipwreckThousand MilesCopperAtlantic Ocean Author:Edward Everett
“One of the things I'm real proud of is I just made a deal with 20th Century Fox, and I've got my own production company now. I'm developing some television and movies for other people because I have a lot of fresh new ideas. To write is what I love the most.” PeopleWritingMadeIdeasRealMy OwnDealsCompanyCenturyTelevisionProudProductionsDevelopingNew IdeasFoxes20th Century Author:Dolly Parton
“Launching Collins in the U.S. fulfills the original vision of the 1989 union of Harper & Row and William Collins. Publishing has clarified the many benefits of working as a global company. I believe that a true 21st century publisher is a global publisher. Harper Collins is well on its way.” WayBelieveWellsI BelieveCompanyVisionCenturyBenefitsOriginalsUnionsPublishing21st CenturyPublishersLaunchingHarper Author:David D. Friedman
“Whenever, in any century, whether in a single heart or in a company of believers, there has been a fresh effusion of the Spirit, there has followed inevitably a fresh endeavor in the work of evangelizing the world.” WorldHeartHas BeensSpiritCompanyCenturyBelieverEndeavor Author:Adoniram Judson Gordon
“While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible. Once a company that produces a certain product goes out of business, it has no simple way to uncover how its product encoded data. The code is thus lost, and the software is inaccessible. Knowledge has been destroyed.” WayHas BeensStillsUsedCertainLostSimpleCompanyCreativeCenturyProduceProductsProgramDestroyedDataCodeSoftwareCreative WorkInaccessibleSimple Ways Author:Lawrence Lessig
“America's business problem is that it is entering the twenty-first century with companies designed during the nineteenth century to work well in the twentieth.” FirstsWellsProblemAmericaCompanyCenturyTwentiesEnteringNineteenth CenturyBusiness Problems Author:Michael Martin Hammer
“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.” WellsReasonCompanyCenturyKeysReason WhyImpressiveVisionariesCaliber Author:James C. Collins