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“As it is for a person, so it is for a company: having a sense of purpose is invigorating and motivating.”

“There is a very strong linkage between U.S. banks and European banks. There are plenty of European employees that are employed by U.S. companies, and there are plenty of U.S. employees that are employed by European companies.”

Strong Company Plenty Employee Very Strong Employed Linkages

Author:Christine Lagarde

“I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself.”

World I Can Helping Company Illusion Fewer

Author:Noel Coward

“A committee appointed by the President of a company will report what the President wishes to hear. Would they dare report otherwise?.”

Wish President Company Dare Reports Committees

Author:W. Edwards Deming

“Ford Motor Company's sluggish and piecemeal approach to its automotive responsibilities betrays motorists' safety.”

Responsibility Company Approach Safety Betrayal Betray Motor Sluggish Ford Motor

Author:Ralph Nader

“This welfare for wealthy companies wastes taxpayer dollars, harms the environment, and makes a mockery of the recent reductions in federal social spending programs.”

Social Company Environment Waste Program Dollars Spending Harm Welfare Wealthy Taxpayers Reduction Mockery

Author:Ralph Nader

“There is a ghost That eats hankerchiefs; It keeps you company On all your travels.”

Company Travel Ghost

Author:Christian Morgenstern

“An honest heart is not to be trusted with itself in bad company.”

Heart Company Honest Temptation Trusted Bad Company

Book:Virtue rewarded: in a series of letters, from a beautiful young lady to her parents. A narrative

Source: Virtue rewarded: in a series of letters, from a beautiful young lady to her parents. A narrative

“The typical large company has a compensation committee, They don't look for Dobermans on that committee, they look for chihuahuas.”

Looks Company Typical Committees Compensation Chihuahua Large Companies Dobermans

Author:Warren Buffett

“Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings? Ah, who is this lady fine? The Vine, boys, the Vine! The mother of the mighty Wine, A roamer is she O'er wall and tree And sometimes very good company.”

Sometimes Mother Company Boys Tree Wall Fine Hundred Wine Very Good Rings Vines Good Company

Author:Bryan Procter

“The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.”

People May Certain Company Envy Generosity Sensitivity Competitiveness

Author:Alain de Botton

“Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.”

World Friendship Company Fit Travel Expectations Response Curiosity Temper Traveling Alone Company We Keep

Author:Alain de Botton

“Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.”

Shows Company Painting Architecture Noses

Author:J. M. W. Turner

“Music - so different from painting - is the art which we enjoy most in company with others. A symphony, presented in a room with one other listener, would please him but little.”

Littles Art Different Enjoy Rooms Company Painting Please Listeners Symphony

Book:On Music and Musicians

Source: On Music and Musicians

“But when you look at the rubbish who are getting these awards and the absolute non-service they have given to the nation other than financing or working for political parties, you say, 'What company am I in?'”

Looks Political Given Nations Party Company Absolutes Awards Political Parties Rubbish Financing

Author:Michael Winner

“When a manufacturing engineer is hired to create new products but insists on sharing his "wisdom" in accounting with the company controller, he is not going to last long in that company.”

Long Lasts Company Products Engineers Manufacturing Accounting New Products Controllers

Author:Chin-Ning Chu

“Never work for a company that says people are its most important asset. If you wanted to get a mortgage and you said that your only asset was people you would end up living in a tent.”

People Ifs Said Important Ends Wanted Company Assets Mortgage Tents

Author:Guy Browning

“The biggest engineering companies, like Schlumberger, Halliburton and others, have technology they spent billions of dollars developing.”

Company Technology Dollars Billions Developing Engineering

Author:Vagit Alekperov

“In the history of enterprise, most of the protagonists of major new products and companies began their education”

Company Products Majors Capitalism Enterprise Protagonists New Products

Book:The Spirit of Enterprise

Source: The Spirit of Enterprise

“The board is currently undertaking what could be its most important task, ... We are confident that we're going to make a choice that is in the best interest of the company, shareholders and others.”

Important Choices Interest Company Tasks Boards Undertakings Shareholders

Author:George J. Mitchell

“Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place.”

Ideas School Culture Company Creativity Fashion Solitude Achievement Gregarious Groupthink

Author:Susan Cain

“No other technology company other than Apple has successfully transitioned their platform. It's almost never done, and it's way harder than you realise. This transition is where tech companies go to die.”

Way Done Dies Realizing Company Technology Harder Apples Transition Platforms

Author:Jim Balsillie

“Is there any fairness in a system where a group of people can borrow a bunch of money to buy a company and pay themselves millions of dollars in dividends and fees, while the company itself ends up bankrupt and its employees lose their jobs, health insurance and pensions?”

People Ends Jobs Loses Pay Company Millions Groups Dollars Bunch Employee Fairness Fees Pension Dividends

Author:William D. Cohan

“If you voluntarily label a product as being unsuitable for kids and then turn around and market it directly to kids in contradiction of your ratings system, then you should be held accountable just like any other company in America that misleads consumers. That's not censorship. That's common sense.”

Ifs Should Kids America Turns Common Company Products Common Sense Labels Consumers Contradiction Censorship Mislead Rating

Author:Joe Lieberman

“American Eagle can be a selling point for other young, cutting-edge companies to come to Pittsburgh”

Young Company Cutting Edges Selling Eagles Cutting Edge Pittsburgh American Eagle

Author:Ed Rendell

“The IRS says it wants to make sure companies can give their employees a choice between a new cash balance plan and the traditional defined benefit plan. The real question here is whether companies should be required to give their workers that choice.”

Want Giving Should Real Choices Company Plans Balance Benefits Workers Traditional Defined Employee Cash Irs Real Questions

Author:Bernie Sanders

“No other content company has Sony's intuitive grasp of technology and no other company has Sony's intimate understanding of the demands of content.”

Understanding Company Technology Demand Intimate Contentment Intuitive Contention Sony

Author:Howard Stringer

“I don't think there is room for 'artistic temperament.' Professional artists understand art is a business. If businesses ran their companies like many artists do their careers, they would not stay open a year.”

Ifs Thinking Years Art Artist Rooms Business Company Careers Art Is Artistic Ran Temperament Artistic Temperament

Author:Jack White

“Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength.”

Way Individual Company Weakness Crisis Destroyed Good Company Great Company Bad Company

Book:The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

Source: The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

“A real artist may create his picture in a lonely desert... gods look over his shoulder; he creates in their company. What does he care whether or not anybody admires his picture?”

Looks May Doe Real Care Artist Company Solitude Lonely Shoulders Admire Desert Real Artists Does He Care

Book:The arts and their mission

Source: The arts and their mission

“Animals on factory farms and slaughter houses are mutilated, drugged and abused in ways that would be illegal if dogs or cats were treated similarly. The problem is that farm animals are exempted from the Animal Welfare Act. Therefore, companies often act with impunity.”

Ifs Way Problem Would Be House Animal Company Dog Cat Treated Welfare Illegal Farms Factories Slaughter Animal Welfare Impunity

Author:Bruce Friedrich

“We are looking to the FTC to see whether companies that break their promises and collect personal information in an unfair and deceptive manner will be held accountable.”

Company Break Information Promise Unfair Deceptive Personal Information

Author:Marc Rotenberg

“When there is some fear about accounting and growth and the economy, food stocks are a decent place to be, ... This company has been through a bit of a restructuring the last couple of years. Management is doing a great job. The company is improving and people are buying chocolate. So, what a great week to buy it.”

People Years Has Beens Jobs Lasts Bits Growth Company Economy Week Couple Management Decent Buying Chocolate Improving Accounting Great Job Restructuring

Author:Liz Miller

“Companies spend twenty, thirty, forty percent of revenues on advertising to brand their product and to get, essentially, acquire customers cheaply. You get a lot of exposure on something like this.”

Company Products Percent Twenties Customers Advertising Brands Thirty Acquire Forty Revenue Exposure

Author:Bill Wyman

“I think regular Iowans are cynical of this whole idea of corporate welfare, with the biggest awards going to the most profitable companies. It doesn't make sense.”

Thinking Ideas Whole Company Corporate Make Sense Welfare Awards Cynical Profitable

Author:David F. Swensen

“This alliance with Honeywell is a significant step in our strategy to provide remanufacturing services to other companies. We are pleased to build on our relationship with Honeywell through our world-class remanufacturing capabilities.”

World Company Steps Class Strategy Significant Our World Capability Our Relationship Alliances Service To Others World Class

Author:Steve Fisher

“The best companies are able to realize earnings in cash, not through calculations that belong in fantasyland.”

Able Realizing Company Cash Earning Calculations Best Company

Author:David Hawkins

“Another view is Western companies chartered in societies that believe in this kind of censorship shouldn't be carrying water for societies that do.”

Believe Kind Water Views Company Western Censorship

Author:Jonathan Zittrain

“Early in my career when we went to golf tournaments and charity dinners I noticed businessmen and executives would give the players their cards. Well, they're giving you their cards for a reason. I said to my wife, 'All the guys get these cards and then when they get to the parking lot they rip them up or throw them away. It's really weird.' My wife .. said maybe you should just sign a picture and mail it to them. You know, 'Great playing golf with you,' or whatever. So, I did and lo and behold some of those guys I sent pictures to way back then are now CEOs at big companies.”

“There are so many angles to follow up: government incompetence, sophisticated charity scams, how insurance companies treat victims, construction of the levees, who will start ripping off the billions of dollars available in new contracts. Every single one of these stories is going to be a big one.”

Stories Bigs Government Company Treats Victim Dollars Charity Available Billions Contracts Construction Sophisticated Angle Incompetence Insurance Companies Scams Follow Up Levees

Author:Brian Ross

“In developing countries the situation could be even worse because developing countries do not have to count their emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. Private companies from industrialized nations will seek cheap carbon credits for their country in the developing world.”

World Country Nations Company Situation Credit Developing Carbon Emissions Protocol Developing Countries Kyoto Kyoto Protocol

Author:Jennifer Morgan

“Carbon trading engages finance directors. It takes the issue of energy efficiency right to the top of the company.”

Energy Company Issues Directors Finance Efficiency Carbon Trading Energy Efficiency

Author:Elliot Morley

“If anything is going to halt necessary investments in next generation networks it will be Congress dictating business models to companies.”

Ifs Next Company Generations Models Investment Congress Next Generation Halt Business Models Dictating

Author:Claudia Jones

“I have always been an advocate and was, in my last job at M&S, a supporter of the Al Gore dictum that a sustainable business can be a profitable business. We were the first sizeable company in the UK to prove that was the case.”

Firsts Jobs Lasts Company Cases Prove Als Supporter Profitable Gore Profitable Business

Author:Stuart Rose

“Ultimately, growth is essential for increasing a company's value.”

Values Growth Company Essentials

Author:Stuart Rose

“I was actually a fruitarian at that point in time. I ate only fruit. Now I'm a garbage can like everyone else. And we were about three months late in filing a fictitious business name so I threatened to call the company Apple Computer unless someone suggested a more interesting name by five o'clock that day. Hoping to stimulate creativity. And it stuck. And that's why we're called Apple.”

Three Names Interesting Business Company Creativity Five Months Genius Computer Late Fruit Stuck Clock Apples Threatened Garbage Three Months Filing Garbage Cans

Author:Steve Jobs

“I always want to have more dancers in my company.”

Want Company Dance Dancer

Author:Alvin Ailey

“Basically, the UBR is a relic of an earlier vision for UDDI. The original vision for UDDI was as a standard that would help companies conduct business with each other in an automated fashion. The idea was that companies could publish how they wanted to interact, and other companies could find that information and use it to establish a relationship.”

Ideas Helping Use Wanted Company Vision Fashion Information Standards Originals Publish Relics

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“I have huge questions about Vision Appraisal - you bet I do. I'm very worried about what happens when we hand over our destiny to an outside company.”

Hands Happens Company Vision Destiny Huge Worried Our Destiny Appraisal

Author:Robert Falcon Scott

“For there is one thing I can safely say: that those bound by love must obey each other if they are to keep company long. Love will not be constrained by mastery; when mastery comes, the God of love at once beats his wings, and farewell he is gone. Love is a thing as free as any spirit; women naturally desire liberty, and not to be constrained like slaves; and so do men, if I shall tell the truth.”

Ifs Men Love Long I Can Spirit Desire Love Is Company Liberty Gone One Thing Beats Wings Slave Bounds Telling The Truth Inspirational Love Mastery Farewell One Love Long Love Gone Love

Book:The Canterbury tales

Source: The Canterbury tales

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