Best Company Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I wanted to be looked at for the skateboarder that I was. I didn't want to be the 36-year-old skateboarder who's still holding on while owning a company at the same time. I wanted to make my mark and travel and accomplish a few things here and there and then get out.”

Want Years Stills Wanted Company Mark Accomplish Holding On Here And There Skateboarder

Author:Jason Lee

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

Company Right Now Productions

Author:Marla Maples

“Pond scum stinks. And so do the Obama administration's enormous, taxpayer-funded 'investments' in politically connected biofuel companies.”

Company Investment Connected Enormous Administration Taxpayers Ponds Stink Scum Biofuels

Author:Michelle Malkin

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

Company Records Record Companies

Author:Mike McCready

“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.”

Men Order Enjoy Company Fame Spread Educated Friendly Instruction Greece Educated Man

Author:Moses Mendelssohn

“Be true to yourself, and, um, don't worry about some large companies' quarterly profit index.”

Company Worry Profit Being True Be True To Yourself True To Yourself Large Companies

Author:Natalie Merchant

“The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and dozens of local economies hugging the Capital Beltway.”

Has Beens Beautiful Company Economy Defense Locals Construction Architect Dozen Hug Spy Specialists Enriching Contractor Construction Company

Book:Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power

Source: Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power

“Companies, to date, have often used the excuse that they are only beholden to their shareholders, but we need shareholders to think of themselves as stakeholders in the well being of society as well.”

Thinking Needs Wells Used Company Excuse Well Being Shareholders Stakeholder

Author:Simon Mainwaring

“I don't fret much about the natural life spans of shoe companies. If stores don't do the right things, they cease to exist, and that doesn't trouble me at all.”

Ifs Natural Company Trouble Shoes Stores Cease Right Thing Life Span Natural Life

Author:Steve Madden

“I just like to think rather than talk. But I enjoy everyone's company.”

Thinking Enjoy Company

Author:Thia Megia

“As a singer, I just want to try to honor what the writers create - and as someone who's trying to write songs, I just hope I can stand in their company and not embarrass myself.”

Want Writing Trying I Can Song Company Honor Singers

Author:David Nail

“I think innovation as a discipline needs to go back and get rethought and revived. There are so many models to talk about innovation, there are so many typologies of innovation, and you have to find a good innovation metric that truly captures the innovation performance of a company.”

Thinking Needs Company Discipline Models Performances Innovation Capture Metrics Typology

Author:Indra Nooyi

“I'm a pro! No, what I mean is I have performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company in England. I have been all over the place. I have studied theatre for seven years.”

Years Mean Has Beens Company England Seven Theatre Royal Seven Years

Author:Kunal Nayyar

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

Needs Stars My Own Company Records Pushing Record Companies

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“I left Iran back in 1985. I lived in Turkey for a while, then I went to Germany. I joined a theater company there, and we toured the country.”

Country Left Company Theater Germany Iran Turkeys

Author:Navid Negahban

“Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citizenship for citizenship in tax haven countries like Bermuda.”

Years Country Company Havens Taxes Paper Trade Corporate Dozen Citizenship Papers Bermuda

Author:Richard Neal

“When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.”

Years Film Actors Father Left Company Six Seven University Relief Waking Documentaries Seven Years Documentary Films

Author:Sam Neill

“If you want quality service, you have to pay for it. You don't buy into waste. I have great misgivings about the amount of advertising that we see in the health care field, some by hospitals, a lot by drug companies.”

Ifs Want Care Pay Quality Company Fields Amount Drug Waste Advertising Health Care Hospitals Misgivings Drug Companies Quality Service

Author:Dave Obey

“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.”

Two Character Feelings Company Theater Active Nyu

Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“If you were the boss of a company and some of the employees of your company were known to sexually abuse children, you would fire them instantly.”

Ifs Children Company Known Fire Abuse Employee Boss Sexually

Author:Sinead O'Connor

“Big food companies have their priorities, which include selling cheap, unhealthy foods at high profits.”

Bigs Company Profit Priorities Selling Unhealthy Healthy Food Unhealthy Food

Author:Jared Polis

“There are people who want the comfort and structure of a job where they're given tasks and told what to do. I think it's actually a minority of people. The majority of people don't want that, but I'd say that the companies I've built are full of people with something to prove.”

People Thinking Want Jobs Given Company Comfort Prove Built Tasks Majority Structure Minorities

Author:Mark Pincus

“Harmony with nature will bring you a happiness known to few city dwellers. In the company of other truth seekers it will be easier for you to meditate and think of God.”

Thinking God Cities Company Known Easier Harmony Seekers Dwellers Truth Seekers

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“The full history of the interlocking participation of the Imperial German Government and international finance in the destruction of the Russian Empire is not yet written...It is not a mere coincidence that at the notorious meeting held at Stockholm in 1916, between the former Russian Minister of the Interior, Protopopoff, and the German Agents, the German Foreign Office was represented by Mr. Warburg, whose two brothers were members of the international banking firm, Kuhn, Loeb and Company, of which the late Mr. Jacob Schiff was a senior member.”

“I knew Otto Kahn [According to the Figaro, Mr. Kahn on first going to America was a clerk in the firm of Speyer and Company, and married a grand-daughter of Mr. Wolf, one of the founders of Kuhn, Loeb & Company], the multi-millionaire, for many years. I knew him when he was a patriotic German. I knew him when he was a patriotic American. Naturally, when he wanted to enter the House of Commons, he joined the 'patriotic party.'”

Years Firsts Wanted America House Party Company Married Daughter Jew Firm Patriotic Founders Millionaire Clerks American Patriotic House Of Commons Grand Daughter

Author:Denis Fahey

“There's a lot of pride that business owners have. It's actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.”

Thinking Company Pride Organization Critical Driving Boat Owners Ownership Business Owners

Author:Aaron Levie

“I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that.”

Thinking May Chance Company Thousand Selling Investors Chances Are Enron

Author:Arthur Levitt Jr

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

Film Company Red

Author:Bela Lugosi

“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.”

Wells Home Company Happenings London Halls Peter Royal Ensemble

Author:Trevor Nunn

“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.”

Years Kids Actors Company Week Needed Mets Members Theater Towns

Author:Trevor Nunn

“I know I had my equivalents in Adrian Lester and Lenny James when I was at drama school. I remember David Harewood doing 'Othello' at the National, and Adrian Lester having done Cheek by Jowl's famous 'As You Like It and Company' at the Donmar. Not necessarily performances I saw, but just the fact they happened was massively encouraging.”

Knows Done Facts School Remember Company Saws Happened Drama Performances Cheeks You Like It

Author:David Oyelowo

“The labels are in a jam. For a company to do well in music now, it's got to be in all aspects of the business. And Live Nation is the risk-taker. It's leading the charge.”

Wells Nations Company Risk Aspect Labels Jam

Author:Guy Oseary

“Internet entrepreneurs are using technology at every level of their company - from a one-person agency to a small firm, the newest technological advances are interwoven throughout every aspect of Internet-based businesses.”

Persons Levels Company Technology Internet Aspect Entrepreneur Firm Agency Technological

Author:Marc Ostrofsky

“If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.”

People Ifs Thinking Care Company Painting Obligation If You Care

Author:Daniel H. Pink

“Artists, writers and people in creative fields are entrepreneurs by necessity. Nobody gives them a paycheck or picks up their medical insurance. The ones who succeed learn to think and act like 'independent operators.' I think people who are technically 'employees' have to think this way as well. The company is not looking out for you.”

People Thinking Way Giving Wells Artist Company Creative Fields Succeed Picks Independent Entrepreneur Medical Employee Paychecks Operators Medical Insurance

Author:Steven Pressfield

“I'm 64 years old and, yeah, I went through a transition in my life last year, with the death of my son, that woke me up to a lot of things. You know, I'm perfectly happy in my own little groove. Marching along, building my company, and you know, a happy person.”

Knows Years Littles Persons Lasts My Own Company Building Son Yeah My Son Transition Last Year Groove Happy Person

Author:Carl Paladino

“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.”

Hands Company Son Kings Coaches Ran Halls Princess

Book:The Tales of Mother Goose as First Collected by Charles Perrault in 1696

Source: The Tales of Mother Goose as First Collected by Charles Perrault in 1696

“I see Intershop as a leader in the E-commerce digital economy and believe the company has truly long-term potential.”

Believe Long Term Company Leader Economy Long Term Digital Commerce E Commerce

Author:Eckhard Pfeiffer

“I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.”

Can Do Company Trouble Computer

Author:Eckhard Pfeiffer

“To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being on TV.”

Mean Jobs Actors Company Tvs Theater Belonging

Author:Jim Parsons

“My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.”

Thinking Bigs Company Protect Weapons Workers Iron Working It Grandfather My Grandfather Pipe Hunk How Far We've Come

Author:Larry Page

“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.”

School Mother Father Company High School Firm Secretary Going To Work Printing Salesman Merchants Clerks Wool Stationary Bookkeepers

Author:Martin Lewis Perl

“He's a family man and a businessman. He spent his career building successful companies. Then, he saved the 2002 Olympics and brought pride to our nation. As governor, he balanced the budget, cut taxes, and created jobs. The president America needs is Mitt Romney!”

“Obama sees everything backward. Where Americans see individual achievement, he sees government's work. Where we see failing companies, he sees innovation worth subsidizing. Where we see the need for economic growth, he sees a need for higher taxes.”

Needs Government Individual Growth Company Failing Economic Higher Taxes Achievement Innovation Economic Growth Individual Achievement

Author:Reince Priebus

“There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between labels, publishing companies and artists. A lot of it has to do with older licensing schemes.”

Artist Company Labels Publishing Schemes Dissent Brewing Licensing

Author:Sean Parker

“Climate change and dependence on foreign oil are problems that won't go away on their own. Tabling plans to deal with them doesn't make it easier for companies to plan and invest; it makes it harder.”

Problem Deals Company Plans Easier Harder Climate Climate Change Oil Going Away Dependence Foreign Oil

Author:Christina Romer

“People used to think that private equity was basically just a compensation scheme, but it is much more about making companies more efficient.”

People Thinking Used Company Efficient Schemes Equity Compensation Private Equity

Author:David Rubenstein

“It's clear to me when you do private equity well, you're making companies more efficient and helping them grow and become more profitable. That success means our investors - such as public pension funds - benefit, which contributes to the economic wealth of society.”

Wells Mean Helping Grows Wealth Company Clear Economic Benefits Fund Investors Efficient Equity Profitable Pension Private Equity

Author:David Rubenstein

“I worked as a teacher in the public school system in New York City for several years, and I was a victim of the layoffs, you know, in the mid-'70s. And then I worked as a sales engineer for a company in New Jersey that was selling industrial filtration equipment.”

Knows Years School Cities Company Teacher New York Victim Selling New York City Engineers Equipment Public School Jersey New Jersey School System Layoff Filtration

Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf

“Today, our economy is divided: fifty percent is the public economy and fifty percent is the private economy that includes small companies employing from 4 to 200 workers.”

Today Company Economy Percent Workers Fifty Divided Employing

Author:Ibrahim Rugova

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