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“Caregivers attract caregivers and live in a community of love. They are energized by their caring, fulfilled, and they love life. Caretakers attract caretakers and live in the company of resentful victims who see themselves as misused and are fatigued from constant giving with no return.”

Giving Community Company Return Victim Constant Caring Love Life Fulfilled Resentful Caregivers Misused Caretakers

Author:Gary Zukav

“Many people and companies only have one goal: money, money, and more money. Greed is ok when you let others profit from it, but greed for oneself is bad, it makes you ill.”

People Goal Company Greed Ill Oneself Profit More Money

Author:Dalai Lama

“The egotistical ambition to always want to earn more money harms both the company and the individual himself. That is the biggest weakness of many managers - the financial crisis has proven this.”

Want Individual Company Ambition Weakness Crisis Financial Harm Managers More Money Proven Egotistical Financial Crisis

Author:Dalai Lama

“In business, poor performance leads to bankruptcy or, at a minimum, a restructuring of the company. In American education, failure entitles the bankrupt system to even more taxpayer dollars.”

Poor Company Performances Dollars Minimum Taxpayers Bankruptcy American Education Restructuring Poor Performance

Author:Cal Thomas

“Do not ask the definition of a friend. He/She is that one without whose company death and dying set in earlier and living is made more pleasurable.”

Made Asks Company Dying Definitions Death And Dying

Book:Looking for a Friend

Source: Looking for a Friend

“There are so many opportunities to make a bad decision in building a robot company on top of all the normal ways that entrepreneurs screw up that it is incredibly difficult to truly create value because it is so cost-sensitive.”

Way Values Opportunity Difficult Decision Company Building Cost Normal Entrepreneur Sensitive Screws Robots Screw Ups Bad Decision

Author:Colin Angle

“I bought a company in the mid-90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.”

Made Games Decision Company Millions Paid Shoes Billions Dumb Zero Dumb Decisions

Author:Warren Buffett

“The credit card companies have put the loan sharks out of business.”

Company Credit Cards Loan Sharks Credit Card

Author:Elizabeth Warren

“It's like athletes: To be a great company you need great competitors...It's what keeps you alive and keeps you honest.”

Needs Company Alive Honest Athlete Competitors Great Company

Author:Craig R. Barrett

“I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.”

Wells Strong Grows Company Laughing Brother Kitchen

Author:Langston Hughes

“It is not easy to build a great brand. It takes leadership to persuade the rest of the company to follow your vision. It takes an artistic sense of proportion and timing. It takes a ruthless willingness to distinguish yourself from competing brands and, hopefully, bury them in the process.”

Easy Process Company Vision Brands Hopefully Artistic Proportion Willingness Timing Competing Ruthless

Author:David F. D'Alessandro

“A company may be the de jure owner, but customers are the de facto owers of the brand.”

May Company Customers Brands Owners

Author:David Wolfe

“Now if we can get white population, immigrants and big companies and so on moving into Africa and if we can get with that Scientology well established in Southern Africa, why we can then look forward to a salvage operation base, in case the northern hemisphere's lights go out.”

Ifs Wells Looks Bigs Light Moving White Company Cases Population Operations Immigrants Southern Hemisphere Scientology Big Companies Salvage Southern Africa

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“Now it's of peculiar interest to an Arab country that there is a company and a certain set of bankers who also finance the World Federation of Mental Health. ...and we see that although the KGB and so forth seems to be associated with the World Federation of Mental Health, their other organization in action seems to go back to Jewish Bankers.”

World Country Seems Action Certain Interest Company Organization Mental Health Finance Peculiar Bankers Federation Kgb

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“Around the late 1990s, I'd become convinced that one of the killer applications of robotics came from connecting robots to the Internet. The idea of solving generalized artificial intelligence was still far away, but heck, I could rent brains by hiring operators. iRobot was the name of the company and one of our most ambitious projects, iRobot LE.”

Stills Ideas Names Brain Company Internet Projects Late Convinced Artificial Intelligence Application Artificial Killers Ambitious Far Away Robots Connecting Hiring Robotics Operators

Author:Colin Angle

“The Fur Company may be called the exterminating medium of these wild and almost uninhabitable regions, which cupidity or the love of money alone would induce man to venture into. Where can I now go and find nature undisturbed?”

Men May Company Mediums Regions Venture Fur Love Of Money

Book:Life and Adventures of Audubon the Naturalist

Source: Life and Adventures of Audubon the Naturalist

“The company Liberated People represents just not liberation of different nations around the world; it can be special liberation days. It can be what the company represents and helps highlight someone's personal liberation date.”

People World Different Helping Nations Company Special Around The World Liberation Liberated Highlights

Author:Gbenga Akinnagbe

“My first job was working at Benihana as kitchen help. In college, I was a telemarketer for a company at the same time I was a bike messenger for this greasy fast-food place.”

Firsts Helping Jobs Company College Kitchen Bike Messengers Fast Food

Author:Steve Aoki

“If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.”

People Ifs Home Culture Company Crazy More Time

Author:Jack Welch

“One thing I've always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they'll tell you, 'We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.'”

People Needs Culture Term Walks Company One Thing Halls Frontiers Microsoft Usability

Author:Bill Gates

“I have a company that is not Microsoft, called Corbis. Corbis is the operation that merged with Bettman Archives. It has nothing to do with Microsoft. It was intentionally done outside of Microsoft because Microsoft isn't interested.”

Done Company Operations Microsoft Archives

Author:Bill Gates

“The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years.”

Years Littles Company Four Design Projects Track Four Years Typical Ibm Large Companies

Author:Bill Gates

“The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld.”

Long Ability Company Successful Products Add Functionality Successful Company

Author:Bill Gates

“In companies whose wealth is intellectual capital, networks, rather than hierarchies, are the right organizational design.”

Wealth Company Design Intellectual Hierarchy Organizational Intellectual Capital

Book:Intellectual Capital: The new wealth of organization

Source: Intellectual Capital: The new wealth of organization

“In the future the optimal form of industrial organization will be neither small companies nor large ones but network structures that share the advantages of both.”

Form Company Share Advantage Organization Structure Optimal

Book:Trust: the social virtues and the creation of prosperity

Source: Trust: the social virtues and the creation of prosperity

“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.”

Firsts Wells Problem America Company Century Twenties Entering Nineteenth Century Business Problems

Author:Michael Martin Hammer

“As I have indicated some time ago, I intend to divest my shareholding when I leave the Club. In doing so, my overriding principle is that I shall do what I believe is best for the future of Celtic. I have also indicated my intention that my shareholding will be made available to be held broadly amongst the supporters and existing shareholders of the Club. I believe that this should produce the best structure of ownership for the Club and the Company.”

Should Believe Made I Believe Company Principles Produce Structure Intention Clubs Available Ownership Supporter Shareholders Celtic

Author:Fergus McCann

“The federal government is basically an insurance company with an army.”

Government Company Army Federal Government Insurance Companies

Author:Paul Krugman

“We've been spending this kind of ramp up time from the time we started the company to now with a lot of different projects in development. What we aren't doing is saying, "We have to do this, this and this." Because the "this, this and this" might not be ready and you don't want to go and make something that's not ready.”

Want Kind Different Might Company Ready Development Projects Spending Not Ready Ramp

Author:Susan Downey

“My first time acting for camera really was for Steven Spielberg in War Horse. I was trained in theater and I was actually working in theater at the time. I had a small role with the Royal Shakespeare Company, which is a huge prestigious theater company back in England. I honestly thought that was as good as it got.”

Firsts War Acting Company Roles Huge First Time Horse England Theater Cameras Honestly Royal Prestigious Small Roles War Horse

Author:Jeremy Irvine

“Each year we go to the Cannes film festival and I tend to have all my friends pile in the back of my car and we'll drive from London. The poor production company think they're only putting me up and suddenly they've got eight people sleeping on my hotel room floor.”

People Thinking Years Film Sleep Poor Rooms Company Car My Friends Productions Eight London Hotel Festivals Hotel Rooms Film Festivals Cannes Cannes Film Festival

Author:Jeremy Irvine

“I'm doing what great artists before me did, like Judy Garland, Sammy Davis, Eddie Cantor. I'm doing what they were doing, not at their level yet, but one day I will be. I'm just happy to be in their company.”

Artist Levels Company One Day Great Art Great Artist Garlands Sammy Davis

Author:Mike Tyson

“I like the company of guys. I have a lot of good girlfriends that I really love, but you know, most of my close friends are men.”

Knows Men Guy Company Girlfriend Close Friends Good Girl Good Girlfriend

Author:Aisha Tyler

“I ended up meeting this guy Stefan Simchowitz, who produced Requiem for a Dream and also went to AFI. I randomly met him in Cannes. By September of 2000, we had made a deal with this company that he was working with. They merged with us and in January of 2001, we opened WireImage. It was pretty crazy because I only started shooting celebrity stuff in 1998 - literally two and a half years later, I'm opening this company.”

Years Made Two Dream Guy Stuff Deals Half Company Crazy Mets Meetings Opening Shooting September This Guy January Half A Year Cannes Requiem Requiem For A Dream

Author:Jeff Vespa

“I feel very lucky to be making good work still. The confidence of youth, or that sort of competitiveness you get when you're 22 or 23, the impatience - that's probably been tempered. Hopefully I'm slightly better company.”

Feels Stills Company Youth Lucky Hopefully Good Work Impatience Competitiveness

Author:Cillian Murphy

“Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly.”

Home America Science Easy Animal Company Practicals Forests Regions Nevertheless Monopoly Fur Wild Animal Evergreens Woods And Forests

Book:A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American

Source: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American

“Remember that in 1993 a company with a bad Web site needed an engineer. Today, a company with a bad Web site needs a psychiatrist.”

Needs Today Remember Company Needed Engineers Site Psychiatrist

Author:Philip Greenspun

“If companies don't know that they can run out of money, they won't be thinking of ways not to run out of money.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Running Company

Author:Bill Gross

“Isn't it ironic that pay, perks, and benefits all cost your company at the bottom line, but authentic recognition, especially when it's most unexpected, costs very little and gives the most impressive return on investment.”

Giving Littles Lines Pay Company Return Cost Benefits Investment Bottom Recognition Unexpected Ironic Impressive Bottom Line Perks Return On Investment

Author:Chip Conley

“First, only invest in companies that have the potential to return the value of the entire fund.”

Firsts Values Company Return Fund

Book:Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Source: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“AZT was never meant to treat HIV. It was meant to treat cancer and, when it was discovered to be toxic, the drug companies stopped clinic trials of the drug because it was so toxic. Is this drug really one we want to use?”

Want Use Company Drug Treats Cancer Trials Toxic Hiv Clinic Drug Companies

Author:Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

“It is a company's customers who effectively control what it can and cannot do.”

Company Customers

Book:Disruptive Innovation: The Christensen Collection (The Innovator's Dilemma, The Innovator's Solution, The Innovator's DNA, and Harvard Business Review article

Source: Disruptive Innovation: The Christensen Collection (The Innovator's Dilemma, The Innovator's Solution, The Innovator's DNA, and Harvard Business Review article

“The leader of a company needs to have a decision tree in his head - if this happens, we go this way, but if it winds up like that, then we go this other way.”

Ifs Way Needs Happens Decision Company Leader Tree Wind

Author:Sean Parker

“If you have a debt issue or credit card issue, start dealing with it. If you have a tax issue, don't just say, 'I'm not going to file.' There are ways to deal with these things, but you must communicate with your creditors, whether it's a credit card company or tax department.”

Ifs Way Deals Company Issues Taxes Communicate Credit Debt Cards Department Files Credit Card Creditors Dealing With It

Author:Hill Harper

“I trust online banking. You know why? Because if somebody hacks into my account and defrauds my credit card company, or my online bank account, guess who takes the loss? The bank, not me.”

Ifs Knows Loss Company Accounts Credit Cards Online Banking Credit Card Hacks Bank Accounts

Author:Kevin Mitnick

“I'm a highly, highly, highly creative human being. I write music all the time. I write scripts constantly. I run my own production company. I'm also a very determined businesswoman. I've a town to deal with. I've got a lot of things to do and I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.”

Writing Humans Care Running Difficult My Own Human Beings Deals Company Creative Towns Scripts Productions Determined Things To Do

Author:Kim Basinger

“Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.”

Company Solitary Incessant Confinement Solitary Confinement

Book:A Writer's Diary

Source: A Writer's Diary

“Michael Moore announced that his next documentary film will attack the health care industry in America. He's not out to get the pharmaceutical companies. He's just looking for something to relieve the redness in the center of the country.”

Country Care America Film Next Company Industry Health Care Documentaries Pharmaceutical Pharmaceutical Companies Documentary Films

Author:Argus Hamilton

“The reason people come to work for GE, they want to be apart of something bigger than themselves, they want to work for a company that makes a difference, a company that is doing great things in the world.”

People World Want Reason Differences Company Bigger Great Things Making A Difference

Author:Jeffrey R. Immelt

“The elites - or managers in companies - no longer control the conversation. This is how insurrections start.”

Company Conversation Managers Elites Insurrection

Author:Marc Benioff