“I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.” Can DoCompanyTroubleComputer Author:Eckhard Pfeiffer
“Having a clear mission and making sure you know that mission and making sure that mission comes through the company is probably the most important thing you can do for both culture and values.” KnowsImportantValuesCultureCan DoCompanyClearImportant ThingsMissions Author:Brian Chesky
“I'm sure a lot of you had this experience when you're changing. You're growing as a person and people tend to treat you like you were 18 months ago, and it's really frustrating sometimes when you're growing up and you're more capable. It's the same thing with a company and the press. The press is going to have a lag time. The best thing we can do about the press is embrace them and do the best thing we can to educate them about our strategy. But to keep our eye on the prize, that is turning out some great products. the press and the stock prize will take care of themselves.” PeopleInspirationalPersonsSometimesEyeCareCan DoCompanyGrowing UpGrowingProductsLike YouMonthsCapableTreatsStrategyPressesEmbraceTake CareBest ThingsPrizeEducateFrustratingDo The BestLagEye On The PrizeGrowing As A Person Author:Steve Jobs
“It pains me to see my old company, which has meant so much to America, on the ropes. But Chrysler has been in trouble before, and we got through it, and I believe they can do it again... Let's face it, if your car breaks down, you're not going to take it to the White House to get fixed. But, if your company breaks down, you've got to go to the experts on the ground, not the bureaucrats.” IfsBelieveHas BeensPainAmericaFacesHouseI BelieveCan DoWhiteCompanyBreakTroubleCarFixedExpertsWhite HouseBreaking DownRopeBureaucratsChrysler Author:Lee Iacocca
“All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable to perpetrate upon myself the joke of a self. What I have instead is a variety of impersonations I can do, and not only of myself - a troupe of players that I have internalised, a permanent company of actors that I can call upon when a self is required. I am a theater and nothing more than a theater.” I CanSelfActorsCan DoCompanyPlayerIdentityJokesTheaterCertaintyVarietyPermanentUnwillingTroupe Author:Philip Roth
“You can't always do that which you can do in your sleep. That doesn't fulfill an artist. You're looking for places where you can grow, in some way, whether it's a large way or a small way. I want to grow as an artist, as a person and as a woman. I want to enjoy myself and my life and the company that I'm keeping. I want to bring something to the table that's different than anything else would bring, but that has its place and value, and then keep moving.” WayWantPersonsDifferentMovingArtistValuesGrowsEnjoyCan DoSleepCompanyTablesKeep Moving Author:Angela Bassett
“As the owner of the company, I'm always focusing on how my company can do more for less. And it's one of the principles of the world.” WorldCan DoCompanyPrinciplesOwners Author:Robert Kiyosaki
“How exciting is it to come to work if the best you can do is trounce some other company that does roughly the same thing?” IfsDoeCan DoCompanyExciting Author:Larry Page
“I want to do more drama. Comedy is the path of least resistance for my company. People know we can do them. People know they get a good response. People want to make them. Who am I to push up against that?” PeopleKnowsWantCan DoCompanyPathComedyDramaResponseResistancePush UpsPath Of Least Resistance Author:Ice Cube
“we have complaints that institutional dominance of the stock market has put 'the small investor at a disadvantage because he can't compete with the trust companies' huge resources, etc. The facts are quite the opposite. It may be that the institutions are better equipped than the individual to speculate in the market.But I am convinced that an individual investor with sound principles, and soundly advised, can do distinctly better over the long pull than large institutions.” MayLongFactsIndividualSoundCan DoCompanyPrinciplesHugeResourcesOppositesInstitutionsConvincedEtcInvestorsComplaintsDisadvantagesDominance Author:Benjamin Graham
“In Silicon Valley, when you're a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.” Can DoCompanyEntrepreneurValleysSiliconSilicon Valley Author:Ben Horowitz
“I think maybe the most important thing that I or anybody at my company and any of my colleagues can do is establish a trusting, productive, collaborative relationship with creative people.” PeopleThinkingImportantCan DoCompanyCreativeImportant ThingsProductiveColleaguesCreative People Author:John Landgraf
“There are areas using what's called the "checkerboard strategy." They are different cities where you can move around the "checkerboard," doing things you can't do in every square, that you can do in some of them, building a mosaic of these kinds of practices. There are about 400 cable television networks, for example, that are publicly owned. That's a big fight for big private companies. In some areas, this is a political struggle, in some it's conventional common sense.” KindDifferentBigsMovingPoliticalFightingCan DoCommonCitiesCompanyPracticeStruggleExampleTelevisionBuildingAreasStrategyCommon SenseSquaresConventionalCablesMosaicsPolitical StruggleCheckerboard Author:Gar Alperovitz
“People often say to me, "How come you don't want to be CEO of a company?" And I tell them, "I don't want to." I know I can do it, but I don't enjoy it. Why does that have to be the definition of success?” PeopleKnowsWantDoeI CanEnjoyCan DoCompanyDefinitionsCeoI Can Do ItDefinition Of Success Author:Charlene Li
“Connecting everyone is going to be something that no single company can do by themselves. So I'm really glad that they and a lot of other companies are working on this.” Can DoCompanyGladConnecting Author:Mark Zuckerberg
“Most people, most great people even are ammunition. But what you need in your company are barrels. You can only shoot through the number of unique barrels you have, so that's how the velocity of your company improves... is by adding barrels, and then you stock them with ammunition and then you can do a lot.” PeopleNeedsCan DoNumbersCompanyUniqueGreat PeopleBarrelsVelocityAmmunition Author:Keith Rabois
“If two parties, instead of being a bank and an individual, were an individual and an individual, they could not inflate the circulating medium by a loan transaction, for the simple reason that the lender could not lend what he didn't have, as banks can do. Only commercial banks and trust companies can lend money that they manufacture by lending it.” IfsTwoReasonIndividualCan DoSimplePartyCompanyMediumsLoanTransactionsLendingLendersCommercial Banks Author:Irving Fisher