“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.” WantGivingYearsWellsI CanEnjoyAttentionCompanyKnownOne ThingEntrepreneurInitialsSerialsOne Thing At A Time Author:Silvio Scaglia
“I think there's been this long cycle of the big companies making a lot of money by underestimating people's intelligence and people are used to it now. So, they're so used to having their intelligence underestimated that, for most of them, it really isn't worth the bother of paying a little more attention to something that might hit them on a deeper level. But you can't really read people's minds.” PeopleThinkingMindLittlesLongBigsMightUsedLevelsAttentionCompanyDeeperBotherCyclesLots Of MoneyUnderestimateUnderestimatedBig Companies Author:J. Robbins
“Apple has some tremendous assets, but I believe without some attention, the company could, could, could - I'm searching for the right word - could, could die.” LifeBelieveDiesI BelieveAttentionCompanyApplesAssetsRight Words Author:Steve Jobs
“Entertainment companies always have to stay on the edge of trying to catch that certain thing that will grab people's attention. And that thing is always changing. Nintendo has been doing this for a long, long time. Originally, we weren't even a video game company, but we were still an entertainment company. So I can't say what that next thing is, but I can say, at Nintendo we're trying to create new ways to play.” PeopleWayTryingLongHas BeensStillsI CanPlayCertainNextGamesAttentionCompanyLong TimeEdgesEntertainmentVideoNew WaysNintendo Author:Shigeru Miyamoto
“The attention toward me is basically because of what we've built as a company. If we built a pile of crap then nobody would care what I ate for lunch.” IfsCareAttentionCompanyBuiltLunchCrap Author:Marc Jacobs
“Do not ... hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.” MindReasonDeathDiesHopeWishSinAttentionCompanyBreakTroubleSunshineIntervals Book:The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II: 1773-1776 Source: The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II: 1773-1776
“Women of fashion and character--I do not mean absolutely unblemished--are a necessary ingredient in the composition of good company; the attention which they require, and which is always paid them by well-bred men, keeps up politeness, and gives a habit of good-breeding; whereas men, when they live together without the lenitive of women in company, are apt to grow careless, negligent, and rough among one another.” MenGivingWellsMeanCharacterTogetherGrowsAttentionCompanyFashionHabitMen And WomenPaidRoughIngredientsCompositionCarelessPolitenessBreedingGood CompanyGood Breeding Author:Lord Chesterfield
“The thing that I have been emphasizing in my own work for the last few years has been the group approach. To try to buy groups of stocks that meet some simple criterion for being undervalued-regardless of the industry and with very little attention to the individual company.” TryingYearsLittlesHas BeensLastsIndividualMy OwnSimpleAttentionCompanyGroupsIndustryApproachInvestingCriteriaUndervalued Author:Benjamin Graham
“The true investor... will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to the operation results of his companies.” IfsForgetResultsPayAttentionCompanyReturnInvestingPay AttentionOperationsInvestorsDividends Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel
“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
“But just [proposing the standard] puts companies on notice that if you're looking to construct a new natural-gas or coal facility, you really need to pay attention to these. This is what they should be designing new facilities toward as soon as this proposal hits the streets.” IfsNeedsShouldNaturalPayAttentionCompanyStreetsDesignStandardsPay AttentionGasCoalConstructsProposalFacilityNatural Gas Author:Gina McCarthy