“Can you be alone without being lonely? Can you spend time by yourself without craving noise or company of other people? Have you discovered the glory of quiet time spent alone, time spent listening to your soul? Solitude brings with it gifts that come from nowhere else.” PeopleSoulCompanyListeningSolitudeQuietGloryLonelyNoiseYour SoulEnd TimesCravingSpend TimeBeing LonelyTime SpentAlone TimeQuiet Time Author:Steve Goodier
“Eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help. Whether it's going to be a consortium or one entity remains to be seen. I could be wrong. I could be one of the old fogies! Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing. It happens. A company has to be willing to bear the risk of its rocket failing. It's a very large capital investment.” PeopleWayHelpingHappensAbleCompanyFailingRiskWillingBearsToughRemainsInvestmentEnterpriseSuspectsEntityRocketsNasaOrbitPrivate EnterpriseRocket ScienceCapital Investment Author:Sally Ride
“You can picture pretty easily if there were a paying passenger aboard a rocket that failed, like Challenger failed. Certainly it would be a tragedy, and a tragedy for the company. They would have a hard time recovering from it.” IfsHardWould BeCompanyTragedyHard TimesRocketsPassengersRecovering Author:Sally Ride
“What I'd like to see is a private [healthcare] system without the artificial lines around every state. I have a big company with thousands and thousands of employees. And if I'm negotiating in New York or in New Jersey or in California, I have like one bidder. Nobody can bid.Because the insurance companies are making a fortune because they have control of the politicians.” IfsStatesBigsLinesCompanyNew YorkPoliticianFortuneCaliforniaEmployeeHealthcareArtificialJerseyNew JerseyNegotiatingInsurance CompaniesBig Companies Author:Donald Trump
“We're at risk of losing this iconic species for all time. Once it's stripped of its natural instincts, it's no longer a tiger. But there's a lot of species like that. The more intriguing thing, throughout Asia, a lot of these countries are selling off their jungle-and-forest rights for oil and for paper-and-pulp companies.” CountryNaturalCompanyRightsRiskPaperLosingInstinctSpeciesOilForestsSellingAll TimeTigersAsiaJungleIntriguingIconicPulpNatural Instinct Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“You're creating music to pull people into a world, whether it be a visual medium where music is just one element, or a purely musical medium. Either way, you're trying to transport people and to create a connection. I've always felt that the best films and the best albums can be the best company. If people feel a little bit less alone because of something I had a hand in creating than I feel like I'm contributing to the world in a positive way.” PeopleIfsWorldWayFeelsTryingLittlesHandsFilmFeltBitsCompanyElementsCreatingLittle BitMusic IsConnectionsMusicalAlbumsMediumsVisualsJust OneBeing The BestTransportContributingBest FilmCreating MusicBest Company Author:Andrew Hollander
“If you're very serious about writing it's helpful to find an agent. It's becoming more and more competitive to have your manuscript even looked at by an editor. Many companies don't accept unsolicited manuscripts anymore, so they'll pay more attention to something that comes in through an agent.” IfsWritingPayAttentionCompanyAcceptingSeriousBecomingAgentsHelpfulEditorsBecoming MoreManuscripts Author:Ann M. Martin
“I'm excited that more people, especially men, are understanding that equality is good for them. I don't want men to want equality for women because they're being nice to their colleagues and daughters. I want men to want it because it's better for their companies and their lives.” PeopleMenWantUnderstandingCompanyNiceDaughterExcitedWant MeBeing NiceColleaguesWomen Equality Author:Sheryl Sandberg
“I can be reasonably funny and light-hearted when I'm in the company of good friends, but I'm not a jokesmith. I tend to be quite serious.” I CanLightCompanySeriousGood FriendHeartedLight Hearted Author:Rowan Atkinson
“This is a world that's big enough for everyone. I like that message in that comes out of John Lasseter, and it comes out Pixar, it comes out of the Apple, Google, the Ben and Jerry's thing. These are American companies that send that message around that is good, that is healthy. And everyone goes, "That's the America I always believed in before Watergate."” WorldEnoughBigsAmericaCompanyHealthyMessagesApplesGoogleAlways BelieveJerryWatergatePixar Author:Eddie Izzard
“Rock 'n' roll started to make so much money and generated so much income for the record companies that suddenly it was no longer evil.” EvilCompanyRecordsRocksIncomeRock N RollRecord Companies Author:John Landis
“My brand is good storytelling. I really want [my company] Hillman Grad Productions to be associated with great stories, interesting characters; things that are three-dimensional and feel honest.” WantFeelsCharacterStoriesThreeInterestingCompanyHonestProductionsStorytellingBrandsInteresting CharactersGradGood Storytelling Author:Lena Waithe
“Companies watch what consumers are doing like a hawk. Just as one letter to a politician can signal an insipient problem, for companies, a trend where people are beginning to switch away from one of their key products to a rival offering on the basis of either claims or real improvements on performance, that's significant.” PeopleRealProblemCompanyWatchesProductsKeysPoliticianLettersPerformancesBasesClaimsImprovementSignificantConsumersTrendsOfferingSignalsRivalsHawks Author:John Elkington
“All the things I used to count on to get my music out there - record companies, they're all gone. And radio stations, they're gone - they're completely controlled by the government. If they're not controlled by the government, they're controlled by a programmer who's controlled by the government. Mainstream radio is suspect. You can't trust it.” IfsGovernmentUsedCompanyGoneRecordsRadioStationsSuspectsControlledMainstreamProgrammersRecord CompaniesRadio Stations Author:Neil Young
“There is a business here first of all, as a company and secondly, the ability to make films that audiences want to see and wouldn't get the opportunity to see. It's exciting. That's where our whole thought process originated from.” WantFirstsWholeFilmOpportunityProcessAbilityCompanyAudienceExcitingThought Process Author:Courtney Solomon
“Oil companies have gas stations. There's this whole huge structure that is about finding a new liquid for the tank. And the idea that maybe there shouldn't be a liquid, that maybe the best is an electrical grid, a sustainably powered electrical grid that we all plug into, that doesn't sit well with oil companies.” WellsIdeasWholeCompanyHugeFindingsStructureOilBeing The BestGasStationsTanksLiquidElectricalPlugsGridsOil CompaniesGas Stations Author:Michael Pollan
“Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in this country that supposedly you can't sit down and have dinner and enjoy another person's company if you don't have the same beliefs. It's ridiculous.” IfsPersonsDifferentCountryPoliticalBeliefEnjoyCompanyMy FriendsDown AndDinnerRidiculousFunny ThingsPolitical Beliefs Author:Patricia Heaton
“Writing can be a lonely business. But gradually your characters, or the scenes and peopl from your past, begin to rise up around you, and you find yourself writing your way out of loneliness, writing into your own company.” WayWritingCharacterPastCompanyLonelinessSceneLonelyFinding YourselfOur PastYour Past Book:A Year of Writing Dangerously: 365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement Source: A Year of Writing Dangerously: 365 Days of Inspiration and Encouragement
“The more successful the unit, the more difficult it is to make sure that the large company doesn't put the same expectations on it as it does for the rest of the company. When it's a new venture, whether it's outside or inside the business, it's a child. And you don't put a 40-pound pack on a 6-year-old's back when you take her hiking.” YearsChildrenDoeDifficultCompanySuccessfulExpectationsPoundsHikingPacksVentureUnitsBack WhenLarge CompaniesNew Ventures Author:Peter Drucker
“There are companies that are good at improving what they're already doing. There are companies that are good at extending what they're doing. And finally there are companies that are good at innovation. Every large company has to be able to do all three - improve, extend, and innovate - simultaneously.” AbleThreeCompanyInnovationImprovingExtendingLarge Companies Author:Peter Drucker
“Home life is best for me. But I do enjoy the company of good friends whether from long ago or newer friends who only know me as George, not the ex-Beatle.” KnowsLongHomeLife IsEnjoyCompanyLong AgoKnow MeGood FriendExesHome Life Author:George Harrison
“It was months later when I was sitting at the board in my studio and my wife would stick her head in and say, "What if you did Pooh and...oh, we don't do that anymore." I do have my soapbox and will go to my grave being a Disney company man.” IfsMenCompanyWifeMonthsSittingSticksStudiosMy WifeGravesBoardsWhat IfDisney CompanySoapbox Author:Mike Royer
“In most companies, the corporate mentality is if you're over 30, you're on the downhill side, and if you're over 40, you're brain dead. Or, if you're over 30 or 40 and you've been doing it for a while, you've got experience and you want to be paid for that experience.” IfsWantSidesBrainCompanyPaidCorporateMentalityBrain Dead Author:Mike Royer
“It doesn't look nearly as big as it did the first time I saw one. Mickey McGuire and I used to sit hour after hour in the cockpit of the one that American used for training, at the company school in Chicago, saying to each other, 'My God, do you think we'll ever learn to fly anything this big?'” ThinkingFirstsLooksBigsSchoolUsedHoursCompanySawsTrainingFirst TimeFlightAviationChicagoMickeyAfter HoursCockpitLearn To Fly Author:Ernest K. Gann
“The corporations have taken over. Even in the recording studio. Actually, the corporate companies have taken over American life most everywhere. Go coast to coast and you will see people wearing the same clothes, thinking the same thoughts, eating the same food. Everything is processed.” PeopleThinkingCompanyTakenEatingClothesStudiosCorporateCorporationsCoastAmerican LifeRecording StudioThinking The Same Author:Bob Dylan
“Women age more in company because they have more relationships. Men have buddies. They have acquaintances, they have comrades. Friends as women have, the friends that of the soul that you share everything, that you witness each other's lives, that you talk their, your, heart out, that you cry with, that you ask money when you need, that.” MenNeedsHeartSoulAgeAsksCompanyShareCryWitnessAcquaintanceBuddyComrade Author:Isabel Allende
“Fans decide what pop culture is. We can define ourselves. Music and the presentation of art nowadays is totally in our control, with the Internet specifically. You no longer need record labels. You no longer need movie distribution companies. You can just make it and put it online, and it will distribute itself to millions of people. The borders and everything have been broken down. It really is in the hands of the people.” PeopleNeedsHas BeensArtHandsCultureCompanyMillionsRecordsFansBrokenInternetPopsLabelsBordersOnlineDistributionPop CulturePresentationRecord LabelsBroken Down Author:Laura Jane Grace
“I had an idea for a medical conspiracy thriller. Since it was non-horror, I didn't want the publishers and editors bringing a lot of baggage - my history as a genre writer in the SF and horror fields, for instance - to the novel when they read it. I wanted them to consider the book solely on its own merits. So I called myself Colin Andrews. I was tired of seeing my books at floor level. Not that Herman Wouk and Phyllis Whitney and William Wharton are bad company, but I wanted to be up at eye level for a change, where people with bad backs could get a chance to see my books.” PeopleWantBookIdeasEyeWantedChanceLevelsCompanyNovelSeeingFieldsHorrorTiredMedicalInstanceGenreMeritEditorsConspiracyPublishersThrillersBaggageAndrewWhitneyBad Company Author:F. Paul Wilson
“I pick my feature film battles very carefully. They're going to be personal and they're going to take a lot of my energy. I'm not going to be some big production company and be Jerry Bruckheimer or something like that. It doesn't interest me.” BigsFilmEnergyInterestCompanyBattlePicksProductionsFeaturesJerry Author:James Cameron
“I love being in space. I love being challenged by great roles that a company like Marvel creates amazing movies that no only give audiences an adventure but also give us as artists an opportunity for us to be challenged to embody amazing, multilayered characters.” GivingCharacterArtistOpportunitySpaceLove IsCompanyRolesAudienceAdventure Author:Zoe Saldana
“People often say to me, "How come you don't want to be CEO of a company?" And I tell them, "I don't want to." I know I can do it, but I don't enjoy it. Why does that have to be the definition of success?” PeopleKnowsWantDoeI CanEnjoyCan DoCompanyDefinitionsCeoI Can Do ItDefinition Of Success Author:Charlene Li
“We get too caught up in the moneymaking part of life. My own biggest concerns are to stay healthy and happy. I think the business will take care of itself and, when I put that thought out into the world, it happens. My company is absolutely growing and growing and growing.” ThinkingWorldHappensCareMy OwnCompanyGrowingHealthyConcernCaughtTake CareCaught UpParts Of LifeHealthy And Happy Author:Louise Hay
“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
“People get famous now for I-don't-know-what. People have reality shows because they're a Hollywood socialite, and these things become very successful and they generate a shitload of money for the company. And it's multiplying, to where you're literally looking into your next door neighbor's bathroom with reckless abandon. It is like watching a fire. You can't take your eyes off of it.” PeopleKnowsShowsRealityEyeNextCompanySuccessfulFireDoorsHollywoodNeighborAbandonBathroomRecklessReality ShowsMultiplyingNext Door NeighborsSocialitesReckless Abandon Author:Johnny Depp
“Most companies, 97 percent or more, put all their focus on clever advertising and clever taglines to get people to buy average or mediocre products. You need to back off and offer a really good product or service.” PeopleNeedsCompanyFocusProductsOffersPercentAverageCleverAdvertisingMediocreTaglines Author:Brian Tracy
“The insurance companies do not refer to the key policy rate when they send their statements. We can only control that rate. Long-term interest rates are determined largely by global financial markets.” LongTermInterestCompanyPolicyKeysRateFinancialDeterminedStatementsLong TermInterest RateInsurance CompaniesFinancial Markets Author:Mario Draghi
“Imagine the disincentive to software development if after months of work another company could come along and copy your work and market it under its own name...without legal restraints to such copying, companies like Apple could not afford to advance the state of the art.” IfsArtStatesNamesCompanyImagineMonthsDevelopmentComputerApplesCopiesSoftwareRestraintCopyingSoftware Development Author:Bill Gates
“No company in the world would be satisfied with less sales, less customers or less jobs just because it's supposed to be good for the environment.” WorldWould BeJobsCompanyEnvironmentCustomersBe GoodSatisfiedSupposed To Be Author:Karl-Johan Persson
“We [H&M] believe that growth, profit and sustainability are not contradictory. Our ambition is to be a fair and profitable company, because otherwise we couldn't open any new stores, we couldn't produce new designs and no new jobs would be created. H&M would soon cease to exist.” BelieveWould BeJobsGrowthCompanyDesignProduceAmbitionFairsProfitStoresCeaseSustainabilityProfitableContradictoryNew Job Author:Karl-Johan Persson
“The climate, financial and national security crises are all connected. They share the same cause: Our [the USA's] absurd dependency on foreign oil. As long as we need to spend billions of dollars each year to buy foreign oil from state-run oil companies in the Persian Gulf, our problems of a trade deficit, a budget deficit and a climate crisis will persist.” NeedsYearsLongStatesProblemRunningCausesCompanyShareSecurityCrisisTradeDollarsClimateFinancialConnectedOilBillionsAbsurdBudgetsUsaPersistNational SecurityDeficitDependencyPersianOil CompaniesForeign OilBudget DeficitPersian Gulf Author:Al Gore
“It's no longer terribly sexy to own shares in certain companies; it used to be that being a shareholder in a corporation would connect you with it. The result is that people really want to invest in valuable things, and contemporary art has become a very stable material value with great growth potential.” PeopleWantArtUsedCertainValuesGrowthResultsCompanyShareMaterialsValuableSexyContemporaryUsed To BeCorporationsStableShareholdersContemporary ArtValuable Things Author:Thomas Koerfer
“When the trust is high, you get the trust dividend. Investors invest in brands people trust. Consumers buy more from companies they trust, they spend more with companies they trust, they recommend companies they trust, and they give companies they trust the benefit of the doubt when things go wrong.” PeopleGivingCompanyDoubtBenefitsBrandsConsumersInvestorsDividendsWhen Things Go WrongBenefit Of The Doubt Author:Stephen Covey
“Trust is a competency. It's something you can get good at. It's a strength you personally, and your team and your company can master. Being good at it will elevate every other strength you have.” CompanyTeamMastersBe GoodCompetencies Author:Stephen Covey
“My company is called Talking Monkey, Inc. It's because that's what I think all people are: talking monkeys.” PeopleThinkingCompanyTalkingMonkeys Author:Joe Rogan
“I'd like to work with some of the videogame companies for the simple fact that they obviously need some sort of writer's help. I play videogames, and lately it's hard for me to enjoy them because I'm spending all my time cringing at the corny dialogue, thin characters, and glaring plot holes.” NeedsHardPlayCharacterFactsHelpingEnjoySimpleCompanySpendingHolesDialogueMy TimePlotCornyVideogame Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“It seems like every time I agree to work with a video game company they go out of business. I stopped because I was starting to feel guilty.” FeelsSeemsGamesCompanyAgreeStartingVideoGuilty Author:Neil Gaiman
“Leadership is a choice. It's not a rank, it's a choice. I know many people who are at the top of their organization who have authority. We have to do what they say because they have authority over us. But they're not leaders. We wouldn't follow them. They may be at the top of the company but they're not leaders.” PeopleKnowsMayChoicesCompanyLeaderAuthorityOrganization Author:Simon Sinek
“All these companies that grew to any sizable proportions were all founded with a belief or a cause bigger than their products or services. It was their products or services that helped them bring that cause to life.” BeliefCausesCompanyProductsGrewBiggerProportion Author:Simon Sinek
“Part of the talent of any company is to surround yourself with people who have good spirit and help you do more and more things.” PeopleHelpingSpiritCompanyTalentSurroundSurround YourselfSurround Yourself With People Author:Marc Jacobs
“You will not get to steal quietly into heaven, into Christ's company, without a conflict and a cross. I find crosses to be Christ's carved work that he marks out for us and that with crosses he portraits us to his own image, cutting away pieces of our ill and corruption. Lord cut - Lord carve - Lord wound - Lord do anything that may perfect thy Father's image in us and make us ready for glory.” MaySufferingFatherHeavenChristPerfectCompanyLordPiecesCuttingReadyConflictGloryCrossesMarkIllCorruptionWoundsStealingPortraitsAffliction Author:Samuel Rutherford