“Now you have to ask a question - is that really, is capitalism really about the ability of a handful of rich people to manipulate the lives of thousands of other people and walk off with the money? Or is that in fact somehow a little bit of a flawed system? And so I do draw distinction between looting a company, leaving behind broken families and broken neighborhoods and then leaving a factory that should be there.” PeopleShouldLittlesFactsAsksBitsAbilityWalksBehindsCompanyRichBrokenRepublicanLittle BitDrawsCapitalismLeavingDistinctionNeighborhoodFactoriesManipulateFlawedHandfulRich PeopleLootingBroken Family Author:Newt Gingrich
“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.” PeopleI CanFeelingsAsksCompanyGrowingOfficeFingersPracticalsPulseCubicles Author:Kevin P. Ryan
“Ideas are somewhat like babies - they are born small, immature, and shapeless. They are promise rather than fulfillment. In the innovative company executives do not say, "This is a damn-fool idea." Instead they ask, "What would be needed to make this embryonic, half-baked, foolish idea into something that makes sense, that is an opportunity for us?"” IdeasWould BeAsksOpportunityBornHalfCompanyBabyFoolNeededPromiseFoolishMake SenseFulfillmentDamnExecutivesInnovativeImmature Author:Peter Drucker
“We cannot embrace His cross, and yet refuse our own. We cannot raise the cup of His remembrance to our lips, without a secret pledge to Him, to one another, to the great company of the faithful in every age that we, too, hold ourselves at God's disposal, that we will ask nothing on our own account, that we will pass simply into the Divine hand to take us whither it will.” HandsAgeAsksSecretCompanyDivineCrossesAccountsRaisesEmbraceLipsRefuseCupsFaithfulRemembrancePledgeGreat Company Book:Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons Source: Hours of thought on sacred things, sermons
“CEOs resign when the internal dynamics of the company and the external dynamics of the company actually come together to say it is appropriate. When the internal dynamics ask you whether you have a replacement. I think the transition from CEOships have also become cartoonish.” ThinkingTogetherAsksCompanyAppropriateInternalsTransitionCeoDynamicsReplacements Author:Ursula Burns
“Golf asks something of a man. It makes one loathe mediocrity. It seems to say, "If you are going to keep company with me, don't embarrass me.” IfsMenSeemsAsksCompanyGolfMediocrityLoathe Author:Gary Player
“The industry has changed. Two years ago I could tell a company I've got Russell Crowe and that would get the film made. Now they'd ask 'And who's the girl?' Just one famous face isn't enough any more.” YearsMadeTwoEnoughFilmFacesGirlAsksCompanyChangedIndustryYears AgoJust OneTwo YearsTwo Years Ago Author:Gary Oldman
“Someone in the society has to deal with the reality that there are finite resources and we're making trade-offs, and be explicit about that. When the car companies were found to have a memo that actually said, "This safety feature costs X and saved Y lives," the very existence of that memo was considered damning. Or when you made it reimbursable for a doctor to ask, "Do you want heroic care at the end-of-life," that was a death panel. No, it wasn't a death panel! It was asking somebody to make a decision.” WantMadeSaidEndsRealityCareAsksFoundDecisionDealsExistenceCompanyCarCostResourcesDoctorsAskingSafetyTradeSavedMade ItFeaturesHeroicFiniteEnd Of LifeExplicitTrade OffsMemos Author:Bill Gates
“When private industry makes a mistake, it gets corrected and goes away. As governments make mistakes, it gets bigger, bigger and bigger and they make more, more and more because as they run out of money, they just ask for more and so they get rewarded for making mistakes. In the meantime that is exactly what we are doing by subsidizing companies which are failing, we have a reverse Darwinism, we've got survival of the unfittest, the companies and people that have made terrible mistakes are being rewarded and other people are being punished and being taxed.” PeopleMadeGovernmentRunningAsksMistakeCompanyFailingIndustryTerribleSurvivalBiggerMaking MistakesReverseDarwinism Author:Peter Schiff
“To achieve consistently terrific customer service, you must hire wonderful people who believe in your company's goals, habitually do better than the norm and who will love their jobs; make sure that their ideas and opinions are heard and respected; then give them the freedom to help and solve problems for your customers. Rather than providing rules or scripts, you should ask them to treat the customer as they themselves would like to be treated - which is surely the highest standard.” PeopleGivingShouldBelieveIdeasHelpingProblemJobsAsksGoalCompanyOpinionWonderfulHeardAchieveHighestStandardsTreatsScriptsSolveCustomersTreatedProvidingConsistentlyBelieve In YouNormTerrific Author:Richard Branson
“I wish people were more like animals. Animals don't try to change you or make you fit in. They just enjoy the pleasure of your company. Animals aren't conditional about friendships. Animals like you just the way you are. They listen to your problems, they comfort you when you're sad, and all they ask in return is a little kindness.” PeopleWayTryingLittlesProblemAsksWishEnjoyPleasureAnimalCompanyKindnessLike YouReturnFitComfortAbout FriendshipConditional Author:Bill Watterson
“I'd crack up without my music. It's the best company you can have, really. It don't say 'no' or 'maybe,' or ask no questions.” AsksCompanyMusicCracksBest Company Book:Disappearing Acts Source: Disappearing Acts
“I hope more people will ask diamond companies to continue changing the way they do business in Africa.” PeopleWayAsksCompanyDiamond Author:Djimon Hounsou
“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.” PeopleGivingYearsAsksCompanyBlowCreditRidiculousCeoSalaryHornsYacht Author:Adora Svitak
“When you go to make a purchase, take a look at the product and ask yourself: 'am I being cheated?' If a product from a 'fast fashion' chain is falling apart before you've even bought it, it's not a deal. It's the fast-fashion company trying to get you to buy something that is quick on trend but slow on quality.” IfsTryingLooksFallAsksDealsQualityCompanyFashionProductsChainsTrendsFalling ApartCheated Author:Maxine
“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
“The fact that used cars is our largest category is a good example. We would not have sat in a conference room and said, "Hey, how about used cars?" So what can be learned that is extensible to other companies is to ask what are your customers doing with your products that maybe you didn't anticipate that they would do? How do you think of your customers as your research and development lab, as opposed to having an R&D lab at headquarters?” ThinkingSaidFactsUsedAsksRoomsBusinessCompanyCarExampleProductsDevelopmentResearchCustomersHeySatCategoriesConferencesAnticipateThink Of YouLabsGood ExamplesResearch And DevelopmentHeadquartersUsed Car Author:Meg Whitman
“My visitors say they noticed perfumes from different companies in my fridge, and ask what I need these for. I explain that they are mainly there as historical benchmarks of quality, below which I must not and would not want to fall.” WantNeedsDifferentFallAsksQualityCompanyHistoricalPerfumeFragranceVisitorsFridges Author:Jean-Claude Ellena
“If I taught a class, on my final exam I would take an Internet company and ask, 'How much is this company worth?' Anyone who would answer, I would flunk.” IfsAsksAnswersCompanyClassTaughtInternetFinalsExamFinal Exams Author:Warren Buffett
“So when this opportunity came up through Elisabeth Murdoch and her company Shine, to be an executive producer and actually be part of the show, I liked the idea because I like the word mentor. I don't want to judge someone. I like sharing my knowledge with my girls, and anything they ask me I'll try to do to help them. Any of my real friends who know me, know that's how I really am.” KnowsWantTryingIdeasRealHelpingShowsGirlAsksOpportunityCompanyJudgingShiningProducersAsk MeExecutivesMentorKnow MeReal FriendsMy Girl Author:Naomi Campbell
“I'm not sure how it is in America, but for what I can say about Germany, most people give their information willingly to anyone who asks for it such as companies like Google. We just don't question it anymore.” PeopleGivingI CanAmericaAsksCompanyInformationNot SureGermanyGoogle Author:Christian Schwochow
“The lobbying over China most favored nation trading status was disgusting. There's no way in hell that MFN would have passed in '95, '96, '97, '98, '99, 2000 if all these companies hadn't come in flooding and making campaign contributions and ask for people's support. That drove the debate. Every year was the allure of corporate dollars flooding into members' bank accounts.” PeopleIfsWayYearsAsksNationsCompanySupportHellMembersAccountsDollarsChinaCampaignsDebateCorporateContributionDisgustingTradingBank AccountsFloodingAllureLobbyingCampaign Contributions Author:Mark Shields
“I imagine you will always be pinched for money, for time, for a place to work. But I think you will do it. And believe me, it is not a new problem. You are in good company...Your touch is the uncommon touch; you will speak only to the thoughtful reader. And more times than once you will ask yourself whether such readers really exist at all and why you should go on projecting your words into silence like an old crazy actor playing the part of himself to an empty theater.” ThinkingShouldBelieveProblemActorsAsksSpeakSilenceCompanyImagineCrazyGoes OnReaderEmptyTheaterThoughtfulMore TimeBelieve In MeUncommonGood Company Author:Wallace Stegner
“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.” MadeAsksCompanyDyingDefinitionsDeath And Dying Book:Looking for a Friend Source: Looking for a Friend