“I'd like the people teaching my kids to be good enough that they could get a job at the company I work for, making a hundred thousand dollars a year. Why should they work at a school for thirty-five to forty thousand dollars if they could get a job here at a hundred thousand dollars a year?” PeopleIfsShouldYearsEnoughKidsSchoolJobsCompanyFiveTeachingThousandHundredDollarsBe GoodThirtyFortyGood Enough Author:Steve Jobs
“Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you.” WellsCompanySolitudeBe Good Book:Aphorisms Source: Aphorisms
“A young financial writer once brought ridicule upon himself by stating that a certain company had nothing to commend it except excellent earnings. Well, there are companies whose earnings are excellent but whose stocks I would never recommend. In selecting investments, I attach prime importance to the men behind them. I'd rather buy brains and character than earnings. Earnings can be good one year and poor the next. But if you put your money into securities run by men combining conspicuous brains and unimpeachable character, the likelihood is that the financial results will prove satisfactory.” IfsMenYearsWellsCharacterRunningYoungCertainNextWealthPoorResultsBehindsBrainCompanySecurityHe ManProveImportanceInvestmentFinancialBe GoodExcellentPrimeEarningRidiculeLikelihoodCombiningFinancial Results Author:B. C. Forbes
“No company in the world would be satisfied with less sales, less customers or less jobs just because it's supposed to be good for the environment.” WorldWould BeJobsCompanyEnvironmentCustomersBe GoodSatisfiedSupposed To Be Author:Karl-Johan Persson
“Trust is a competency. It's something you can get good at. It's a strength you personally, and your team and your company can master. Being good at it will elevate every other strength you have.” CompanyTeamMastersBe GoodCompetencies Author:Stephen Covey
“The thing to remember is that children are temporary. As soon as they develop a sense of humor and get to be good company, maybe even remember to take the trash out and close the refrigerator door, they pack up their electronic equipment and their clothes, and some of your clothes, and leave in a U-Haul, to return only at Thanksgiving.” ChildrenRememberCompanyDoorsReturnClothesBe GoodTemporarySense Of HumorPacksEquipmentTrashRefrigeratorsHaulGood CompanyU Haul Book:One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone Source: One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone