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“Companies that hire employees..that are deeply passionate create companies that customers are really really passionate about, and those are the companies that have strong brands.”

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Author:Brian Chesky

“It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.”

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Author:Vagit Alekperov

“I would never suggest anyone to stay at a company more than six or seven years. We grow as individuals and the world is moving so fast. Typically, I'll always sell a piece of each of my companies along the way.”

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Author:J. Christopher Burch

“Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise.”

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Author:Peter Bergen

“I'm no fan of what I've seen health insurance companies do.”

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Author:Elizabeth Emken

“Companies shouldn't use the law to prevent consumers from doing something legal.”

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Author:Jon Lech Johansen

“I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.”

Firsts School Actors Company Needed Theater Expanding New Company

Author:Charles Kimbrough

“I don't have an office. I sit in a cubicle with everybody else. That's partly so no one can ask for an office, which in a fast-growing company isn't practical. But it's also so I can keep my finger on the pulse of how people are feeling.”

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Author:Kevin P. Ryan

“I basically see two reasons for a going public: Glencore gets access to more money. It is a way of funding your business and to finance growth. Plus: You have more liquid shares. It is easier to leave the company and redeem your shares. The 'going public' may also be an exit strategy for the top management.”

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Author:Marc Rich

“It is much more convenient not to be a public company. As a private company you don't have to give information to the public. Secrecy is an important factor of success in the commodity business.”

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Author:Marc Rich

“Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.”

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Author:J. Irwin Miller

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

Matter Bigs Company Believer

Author:Matthew Vaughn

“I came of age at the end of the 1960s, just when video was also coming into the world. Companies such as Sony and Panasonic were starting to market it and we artists immediately knew how it could be used.”

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Author:Bill Viola

“It would be nice to make a movie that other people want to make, because every one of these movies, I basically have to find the only company in the world that's willing to make it, and it's always a big challenge. I end up spending a tremendous amount of energy and time trying to get money to make these movies and it's exhausting.”

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Author:Darren Aronofsky

“In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they only do things together.”

People Together Social Company Talking Social Life Get Together Evasion

Author:Louis Kronenberger

“Every entrepreneur faces trade-offs when founding and growing their company. As we discovered at YouTube, those early decisions have far-reaching impacts and lead to unforeseen pitfalls down the road. Noam Wasserman uses vivid anecdotes and deep research to expertly outline the key early choices that define a startup, making The Founder's Dilemmas an invaluable alternative to real-world trial and error.”

“The sales department isn’t the whole company, but the whole company better be the sales department.”

Whole Company Department

Book:Marketing Insights from A to Z: 80 Concepts Every Manager Needs to Know

Source: Marketing Insights from A to Z: 80 Concepts Every Manager Needs to Know

“The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.”

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Author:Zac Hanson

“I studied to be an architect. And I find tremendous similarities between building a company and the design process. Businesses have to do their planning on the fly in a fashion similar to an architect sketching.”

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Author:John Katzman

“I hated being a public company CEO.”

Company Hated Ceo

Author:John Katzman

“The question was, in a sense, at Princeton Review, how much value was I adding as a public company CEO. I was adding less than other people might've... I think you want to move on when you've given your best work and then feel that you're not going to add as much value moving forward.”

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Author:John Katzman

“I'm going to start a lot of companies. These are not sham companies. These are great businesses.”

Company Great Business

Author:Eric Lefkofsky

“I've been part of founding three companies that have gone public. It doesn't seem like a big number, but it's actually a lot.”

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Author:Eric Lefkofsky

“Think about the way most companies currently hire. You post a job and then get blind resumes in response. This should be a social experience.”

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Author:Eric Lefkofsky

“I think there are four or five interesting pockets where a lot of cool technology companies are getting started. Chicago is one of them. New York is certainly another. Silicon Valley really dominates. And you're seeing some stuff out of Boston and Seattle and down South.”

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Author:Eric Lefkofsky

“I think my mother was like a small company which, because things are not ship-shape, keeps two sets of books, one for the auditors and then there's the other one.”

Thinking Two Book Mother Company Shapes Ships Auditors

Book:Luck and Circumstance: A Coming of Age in Hollywood, New York, and Points Beyond

Source: Luck and Circumstance: A Coming of Age in Hollywood, New York, and Points Beyond

“I always say this to people: 'If Shaq can be in the NBA for 19 years and dominate for 19 years using his body, why can't I be in the music industry for 50 years using my brain when my brain is way stronger than anyone's body?' I have to have a successful record company, more hit records. I want to dominate the game.”

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Author:Rico Love

“It took us 200 years to elect the first Democratic woman to the Senate in her own right, and that's Barbara Mikulski. Six years later, we had a grand slam: We elected four new Democratic women to the Senate. Sen. Mikulski now has some company.”

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Author:Ellen Malcolm

“One of the marked characteristics of the U.K. security industry as compared with defence is the lack of company scale. This can put our firms at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to big contracts.”

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Author:Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

“I have my own production company called Urban Dreams.”

Dream My Own Company Productions Urban

Author:Chaske Spencer

“E.Biscom is an Internet company that is diversified, not a diversified company that is trying out the Internet.”

Trying Company Internet

Author:Silvio Scaglia

“I don't want to be known as a serial entrepreneur. I like doing one thing at a time and making sure that gets my full attention until it's well established. I enjoy the initial years of a company because they are the most dynamic, and that is when I can give the best of myself.”

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Author:Silvio Scaglia

“I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company.”

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Author:David Friedman

“I have my own publishing company called 'I Am McLovin Publishing.”

My Own Company Publishing

Author:Teyana

“I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.”

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Author:Yul Vazquez

“I'm really not for famous people who design a line for a company, when you know it's not really them creating it but a team of designers, especially when there are so many talented people who've taken the time to go and study fashion.”

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Author:Bonnie Wright

“First, the oil and gas business pays its fair share of taxes. Despite the current debate on energy taxes, few businesses pay more in taxes than oil and gas companies. The worldwide effective tax rate for our industry in 2010 was 40 percent. That's higher than the U.S. statutory rate of 35 percent and the rate for manufacturers of 26.5 percent.”

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Author:John S. Watson

“I consistently run into young adults who have quickly turned away from traditional jobs at great companies to try their hand at a start-up. I believe that some of this stems from the desire to strike it big like Mark Zuckerberg, but I also believe it is because starting a company has become far cooler than working in one.”

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Author:Maynard Webb

“I remember when being a 'a company man' was a badge of honor; today in Silicon Valley it may brand you a loser or, in the best case scenario, someone afraid to take risks. Ten years ago, if you saw a resume that had multiple jobs in ten years, you would be worried about the capability of the individual. Not so now.”

“In talking to founder after founder; I've heard almost visceral reactions to working for companies, even very cool ones with great things to work on and lots of opportunity, like Facebook, Google, or consulting firms.”

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Author:Maynard Webb

“The most direct path to achievement whether you're an entrepreneur, a company executive, or a pro soccer player is to be a great performer and a great team member. This is also the secret to a meaningful career and self-fulfillment.”

“Fashion people think that the careful Nice companies are boring beyond measure. (Nice people think fashionistas look silly and should Get A Life).”

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Author:Peter York

“The White Company offers its loyalists an altogether better, whiter world. The White people have edited out any colours that aren't white, off-white, milk chocolate, grey, taupe or black. They can't be doing with Johnnie Boden's cheery Sloane jokes, his spots and stripes, his occasional 'if it's me, it's U' loud colours.”

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Author:Peter York

“When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things. They haven't been around enough - novelists never go anywhere. Once I discovered true books about real things - books like 'How To Run a Company' - I stopped reading novels.”

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Author:Peter York

“From coast to coast, the FBI and Securities and Exchange Commission have ensnared people not only at hedge funds, but at technology and pharmaceutical companies, consulting and law firms, government agencies, and even a major stock exchange.”

“Insider trading tells everybody at precisely the wrong time that everything is rigged, and only people who have a billion dollars and have access to and are best friends with people who are on boards of directors of major companies - they're the only ones who can make a true buck.”

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Author:Preet Bharara

“Significant officials at publicly traded companies are casually and cavalierly engaged in insider trading. Because insider trading has as one of its elements communication, it doesn't take rocket science to realize it's nice to have the communication on tape.”

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Author:Preet Bharara

“We have witnessed the most educated, successful, and monied professionals in the country put their companies - not to mention their own liberty - at risk by engaging in flagrant and foolhardy illegal conduct.”

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Author:Preet Bharara

“Supermarket companies are big logistics companies, and one of the ways we've increased profitability in the past is by re-evaluating how they do logistics.”

Way Bigs Past Company Supermarkets Profitability Logistics

Author:Ronald Burkle

“I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because you want to get along with whatever record company you're dealing with. I don't want to be flaky. I don't want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.”

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Author:Black Francis

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