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“Companies that model best practices, that model the most upstanding principles, end up as the most profitable. It's not a trade of profits versus principles.”

Ends Company Principles Practice Models Trade Profit Versus Profitable Best Practices

Author:Philip Zimbardo

“I begin by looking for megatrends, changes in the world that will create major new demands. My goal is to create a company that can be there to meet those demands.”

World Goal Company Demand Majors

Author:Rodney Brooks

“When a big company lays you off, they often give you a year's salary to 'go pursue a dream.' If you're stupid, you panic and get another job. If you're smart, you take the money and use the time to figure out what you want to do next.”

Ifs Want Giving Years Use Dream Bigs Jobs Next Company Stupid Figures Smart Lays What You Want Pursue Panic Salary Big Companies You Re Stupid

Author:Bruce Schneier

“Making media companies that you hope to sell is not a lot of fun for anyone who cares deeply about making media.”

Care Fun Company Media Sells Who Cares

Author:John Battelle

“Swiss watchmaking and Silicon Valley is a marriage of technological innovation with watchmaking credibility. Our collaboration provides a rich host of synergies, forming a win-win partnership, and the potential for our three companies is enormous.”

Three Winning Company Rich Innovation Enormous Collaboration Valleys Host Partnership Technological Credibility Silicon Silicon Valley Swiss Win Win Synergy

Author:Jean-Claude Biver

“Any bailout of a private company is a bad decision by our federal government. Private companies have the right to succeed, but they also should have the right to fail.”

Should Government Decision Company Failing Succeed Should Have Federal Government Bad Decision Bailouts

Author:Matt Salmon

“I work with companies like Audiostiles to put together mixes for my restaurants. I even created a soundtrack for my television show.”

Shows Together Company Television Restaurants Television Shows Soundtracks

Author:Jose Andres

“When President Obama passed health care reform, it was personal! And when Governor Romney says he would repeal Obamacare and put insurance companies back in charge of a woman's health, that's personal too.”

Care President Company Reform Health Care President Obama Governors Romney Obamacare Insurance Companies Health Care Reform Governor Romney Women's Health

Author:Debbie Wasserman Schultz

“The idea of investing in the positivity of employees is often low down on companies' priority lists.”

Ideas Company Lows Investing Positivity Lists Priorities Employee

Author:Shawn Achor

“Cloud computing offers individuals access to data and applications from nearly any point of access to the Internet, offers businesses a whole new way to cut costs for technical infrastructure, and offers big computer companies a potentially giant market for hardware and services.”

Way Whole Bigs Individual Company Cutting Internet Cost Offers Computer Clouds Access Data Giants Application New Ways Infrastructure Computing Hardware Cloud Computing

Author:Jamais Cascio

“All a company report and balance sheet can tell you is the past and the present. They cannot tell future.”

Past Company Balance Future Reports Sheets Past Present Future Speculators Balance Sheets

Book:How I Made $2 Million in the Stock Market: The Darvas system for stock market profits

Source: How I Made $2 Million in the Stock Market: The Darvas system for stock market profits

“Why is it that big companies fail when the technology changes? It happens in every industry, so what's the pattern? What are they all doing wrong?”

Bigs Happens Company Technology Failing Industry Patterns Big Companies

Author:Jesse Schell

“The record companies really do conspire against the artists. Especially the black artists”

Artist Black Company Records Record Companies

Author:Michael Jackson

“A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.”

Running Company Skills Construction Nails Hammers Construction Company

Author:Warren Farrell

“The company ... has no rights to survive. But value systems and philosophies survive. People take them with them”

People Philosophy Values Company Rights Value Systems

Author:Edgar Schein

“I don't think our fiduciary duty is to put shareholders first. I say the opposite. What we firmly believe is that if we focus our company on improving the lives of the world's citizens and come up with genuine sustainable solutions, we are more in synch with consumers and society and ultimately this will result in good shareholder returns.”

Ifs Thinking World Firsts Believe Results Company Focus Duty Return Citizens Solutions Opposites Come Up Genuine Consumers Improving Shareholders Fiduciary

Author:Paul Polman

“My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from the street. He was homeless, but eventually he got a car so he could sell from the boot. And by the 1980s, he was a millionaire wholesaling to companies like Topshop. So in a way, fashion put me in England.”

Way Firsts Persons Company Streets Fashion Car England Sells Brown Boots Homeless Uncles 1960s Millionaire Lanes Topshop

Author:M.I.A.

“One of the ways we'll know that Work-Out has been successful is that my style of leadership will no longer be tolerated in this company.”

Knows Way Has Beens Company Successful Style Work Out

Author:Jack Welch

“Consumers no longer want only a great product - they want to buy products from companies that align with their own character and values.”

Want Character Values Company Products Consumers

Author:Muhtar Kent

“People come to a company like Abbott sometimes and think, Its so big, I cant make a difference. I think just the opposite. I think everybody can make a difference.”

People Thinking Sometimes Bigs Differences Company Opposites Making A Difference Cant

Author:Miles D. White

“You will never ever, in any circumstance, win any struggle at any time. That being said, we have a long way to go. At the moment, the battle over network neutrality is not to completely eliminate the telephone and cable companies. We are not at that point yet. But the ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control.”

Way Long Said Moments Winning Goal Company Struggle Media Circumstances Battle Ultimate Phones Capitalist Telephones Long Way Cables Ultimate Goal Neutrality Long Way To Go

Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“But the ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control.”

Goal Company Media Ultimate Phones Capitalist Cables Ultimate Goal

Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“People do a better job if they respect the leader of the company. I learned that on my mission - the value of people and how to truly appreciate them.”

People Ifs Jobs Values Company Leader Appreciate Missions Better Jobs

Author:David Neeleman

“Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made the two companies complementary. Apple would ship the phones and computers, while Google would provide Maps, Search, YouTube, and other web tools that made the devices more useful.”

Made Two Company Design Computer Worship Tools Phones Ships Data Apples Maps Devices Google Youtube Dichotomy Complementary Google Maps

Author:Ben Parr

“At Cisco, I made every decision based on what was good for the company, and that pretty much ruined my marriage and my health.”

Made Decision Company Ruined Cisco

Author:Sandra Lerner

“When you're building a company, you need to continually strengthen every component - finance, strategic partnerships, executive team, and relationships with every last constituency.”

Needs Lasts Company Team Building Finance Executives Partnership Components Strategic

Author:Michael J. Saylor

“"Ghost of the Future," he exclaimed, "I fear you more than any spectre I have seen. But as I know your purpose is to do me good, and as I hope to live to be another man from what I was, I am prepared to bear you company, and do it with a thankful heart. Will you not speak to me?"”

Knows Men Heart Purpose Speak Company Bears Prepared Ghost Another Man Spooky Thankful Heart Christmas Carol Spectre Hope To Live

Book:A Christmas Carol

Source: A Christmas Carol

“He had a cringing manner, but a very harsh voice; and his blandest smiles were so extremely forbidding, that to have had his company under the least repulsive circumstances, one would have wished him to be out of temper that he might only scowl.”

Character Might Voice Interesting Company Circumstances Temper Harsh Interesting Characters

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)

“Recollections of the past and visions of the present come to bear me company; the meanest man to whom I have ever given alms appears, to add his mite of peace and comfort to my stock; and whenever the fire within me shall grow cold, to light my path upon this earth no more, I pray that it may be at such an hour as this, and when I love the world as well as I do now.”

Source: CHARLES DICKENS – The Complete Short Stories: 190+ Christmas Tales, Social Sketches, Tales for Children & Other Stories (Illustrated): A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, The Battle of Life, The Haunted Man, Sketches by Boz, Mudfog Papers, Reprinted Pieces, Pearl-Fishing, Christmas Stories, Child's Dream of a Star, Holiday Romance…

“In an ironic twist, I now see Good to Great not as a sequel to Built to Last, but more of a prequel. Good to Great is about how to turn a good organization into one that produces sustained great results. Built to Last is about how you take a company with great results and turn it into an enduring great company of iconic stature.”

Lasts Turns Results Company Produce Built Organization Endure Ironic Twists Iconic Stature Sequels Great Company Good To Great Great Results Good Organization

Author:James C. Collins

“An eternal marriage is eternal. Eternal implies continuing growth and improvement. It signifies that love will grow stronger with time and that it extends beyond the grave. It means that each partner will be blessed with the company of the other partner forever. Eternal signifies repentance, forgiveness, long-suffering, patience, hope, charity, love, and humility. All of these things are involved in anything that is eternal, and surely we must learn and practice them if we intend to claim an eternal marriage.”

“Success doesn't happen overnight. It's the small successes achieved day by day that build a company. So, don't be impatient or focused on immediate financial rewards.”

Happens Company Rewards Financial Focused Impatient Small Successes

Author:John Gokongwei

“The next day after I got fired, literally the next day, I started a new company.”

Next Company Next Day New Company

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“Companies and leaders are role models - not just with the business community - but in the broader world.”

World Community Company Leader Roles Models Role Models

Author:Chip Conley

“I like the company of men. I've never been welcome in those groups, but then I would no more go to a consciousness-raising group and talk about my intimate life with my husband than fly to the moon. I never understood all that.”

Men Consciousness Company Groups Moon Husband Understood Welcome Intimate My Husband

Author:Nancy Friday

“When companies try to guess what consumers want, they essentially make the choice for consumers.”

Want Trying Choices Company Consumers

Author:Sheena Iyengar

“In your company or industry, work every job in that industry. It's the only way of having a complete understanding of your people and your company.”

People Way Jobs Understanding Company Industry

Author:John Catsimatidis

“Companies don't have ideas. Only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds of loyalty and trust they develop around each other.”

People Ideas Company Loyalty Trust And Loyalty

Author:Margaret Heffernan

“We all love people who give credit to others for their success. Companies would probably do better with CEOs who didn't blow their own horn and ask for ridiculous salaries and new yachts every year.”

People Giving Years Asks Company Blow Credit Ridiculous Ceo Salary Horns Yacht

Author:Adora Svitak

“CEOs of top companies could probably use a dose of not-asking-for-raise behavior and less self-entitlement, rather than us trying to change girls in order to fit into the common mold of what we think a CEO looks like.”

Thinking Trying Looks Self Use Order Girl Common Company Fit Behavior Asking Raises Ceo Mold Entitlement Dose Trying To Change

Author:Adora Svitak

“The healthiest companies are always characterized by organic talent development.”

Company Talent Development

Author:Margaret Heffernan

“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.”

Giving Body America Company Taxes Function Foundation Awful Shops Shelter

Author:Anita Roddick

“Awareness is a way you keep yourself company. When you are aware you are being compulsive, you are no longer locked in the behavior. You have a choice to stop. That choice--and therefore awareness itself--is freedom.”

Way Choices Company Awareness Behavior Locked

Author:Geneen Roth

“I have a company that does design and animation, so obviously graffiti is definitely an intricate part of what we admire and respect in the art world.”

World Doe Art Company Design Admire Animation Intricate Art World Graffiti

Author:Mick Ebeling

“I think with every successful consumer Internet business, there will be lawyers that are interested in going after your company, especially when they think that there's a financial incentive.”

Thinking Company Successful Internet Financial Lawyer Consumers Incentives Internet Business

Author:Jeremy Stoppelman

“Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company”

People Company Microsoft Unimportant

Author:Bill Gates

“A highly worthwhile read with prescriptive examples for authentic sustainability and social justice initiatives at companies - not all about the brand, the celebrity or corporate self-interest (about the book 'Compassion, Inc.').”

Book Self Social Interest Justice Company Compassion Example Social Justice Brands Corporate Worthwhile Sustainability Initiative Self Interest

Author:Rebecca Aguilar

“A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single instrument--a piano, say, which is a little orchestra in itself. Such a man is a little world in himself; and the effect produced by various instruments together, he produces single-handed, in the unity of his own consciousness. Like the piano, he has no place in a symphony; he is a soloist and performs by himself--in soli tude, it may be; or if in the company with other instruments, only as principal; or for setting the tone, as in singing.”

Source: Counsels and Maxims

“Resolution Trust Company was set up to liquidate a bunch of assets that the government had inherited because the savings and loans went broke. So the savings and loans went broke, the government stepped in, paid off depositors, and now they're left with this mass of assets to sell. We're not talking about selling here, we're talking about buying intelligently. They were selling what they got handed to them by a bunch of savings and loan operators that had in many cases had done some very dumb thing. But their job was to liquidate it. And they liquidated.”

Done Government Jobs Left Company Talking Cases Mass Paid Sells Bunch Selling Saving Broke Dumb Buying Resolution Assets Loan Savings Not Talking Operators Paid Off Dumb Things

Author:Howard Warren Buffett

“One thing people underestimate is how markets don't allow anyone to do anything except make better and better products. There's not much leeway. The world is a lot more competitive than most people think, particularly in a high-technology area. If a company takes its eye off improving its products, if it tries to do anything that would be viewed as an exercise of power, it'll be displaced very rapidly.”

People Ifs Thinking World Trying Would Be Eye Company Technology One Thing Products Exercise Areas Improving Underestimate High Technology

Author:Bill Gates