“Jay-Z ain't a manager; he owns a management company. He been through this, he been through the game for a long time so he knows tactics in taking artists in certain directions we need to go in.” KnowsNeedsLongArtistCertainGamesCompanyLong TimeManagementManagersTactics Author:Meek Mill
“The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.” PeopleMayCertainCompanyEnvyGenerositySensitivityCompetitiveness Author:Alain de Botton
“Will it be a great source of comfort to certain Canadian boys to know that the bullet that maimed them for life was made from Canadian nickel sold by the International Nickel Company?” KnowsMadeCertainCompanyBoysSourceComfortInternationalBulletsNickels Author:Tommy Douglas
“When a company is fairly certain of a profit margin that is substantial, it can assume responsibility for the clinical trials to develop a blockbuster drug.” CertainResponsibilityCompanyDrugAssumingProfitTrialsMarginsClinicalsBlockbusterProfit MarginClinical Trials Author:Anthony S. Fauci
“A certain degree of solitude seems necessary to the full growth and spread of the highest mind; and therefore must a very extensive intercourse with men stifle many a holy germ, and scare away the gods, who shun the restless tumult of noisy companies and the discussion of petty interests.” MenMindSeemsCertainGrowthInterestCompanyHolySolitudeDegreesHighestSpreadDiscussionScarePettyRestlessIntercourseNoisyGermsTumult Author:Novalis
“A discursive student is almost certain to fall into bad company. Ten minutes with a French novel or a German rationalist have sent a reader away with a fever for life.” CertainFallReadingCompanyNovelMinutesStudentsReaderTenFeverBad Company Book:Pleasures of Literature Source: Pleasures of Literature
“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
“If you are a big company, a big website, and lots of users come to your website, you will have attacks, and you have to deal with that. It just cannot be a reason to take actions to exit certain markets.” IfsReasonBigsActionCertainDealsCompanyUsersWebsiteExitBig Companies Author:Robin Li
“If you manage a team of 10 people, its quite possible to do so with very few mistakes or bad behaviors. If you manage an organization of 1,000 people it is quite impossible. At a certain size, your company will do things that are so bad that you never imagined that youd be associated with that kind of incompetence.” PeopleIfsKindCertainMistakeCompanyImpossibleTeamBehaviorOrganizationSizeManageIncompetenceBad Behavior Author:Ben Horowitz
“There is a certain jargon, which, in French, I should call un Persiflage d'Affaires, that a foreign Minister ought to be perfectlymaster of, and may be used very advantageously at great entertainments, in mixed companies, and in all occasions where he must speak, and should say nothing. Well turned and well spoken, it seems to mean something, though in truth it means nothing. It is a kind of political badinage, which prevents or removes a thousand difficulties, to which a foreign Minister is exposed in mixed conversations.” ShouldWellsKindMayMeanSeemsPoliticalUsedCertainSpeakCompanyOughtThousandConversationDifficultyEntertainmentOccasionsMinistersRemoveExposedJargonAll Occasions Author:Lord Chesterfield
“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
“This idea of anticipation is key to investing and to business generally. You can't wait for an opportunity to become obvious. You have to think, "Here's what other people and companies have done under certain circumstances. Now, under these new circumstances, how is this management likely to behave?"” PeopleThinkingIdeasDoneCertainOpportunityWaitingCompanyKeysCircumstancesManagementInvestingObviousBehaveAnticipation Author:Edward Lampert
“Of one thing the investor can be certain: A large company's need to bring in a new chief executive from the outside is a damning sign of something basically wrong with the existing management - no matter how good the surface signs may have been as indicated by the most recent earnings statement.” NeedsMayHas BeensMatterCertainCompanyOne ThingManagementInvestingSurfaceStatementsChiefsExecutivesInvestorsEarningChief ExecutivesLarge Companies Author:Philip Arthur Fisher
“It's no longer terribly sexy to own shares in certain companies; it used to be that being a shareholder in a corporation would connect you with it. The result is that people really want to invest in valuable things, and contemporary art has become a very stable material value with great growth potential.” PeopleWantArtUsedCertainValuesGrowthResultsCompanyShareMaterialsValuableSexyContemporaryUsed To BeCorporationsStableShareholdersContemporary ArtValuable Things Author:Thomas Koerfer
“One of the things that really gets me excited and makes me start up companies is the fact that you can basically build something new, try to introduce a change in a way that people are used to doing certain activities, and basically create something out of scratch that doesn't exist and would revolutionize whatever it is that you are trying to do with it. So that's part of the reason I love being able to be a technologist.” PeopleWayTryingReasonFactsAbleUsedCertainLove IsCompanyActivityExcitedSomething NewIntroducingScratches Author:Anousheh Ansari
“Most of my company is run by women. There's a certain sensitivity to what I want to express, so that's what I want around me.” WantRunningCertainCompanySensitivity Author:Pharrell Williams
“I'm not running a Fortune 500 company here. I'm not a bank controller. I run a gym. You have to expect a certain amount of sex. We're dealing with bodies, and trainers are very into being beautiful, so you're going to have people who are attracted to each other.” PeopleBodyRunningBeautifulCertainSexCompanyAmountFortuneGymTrainersBeing BeautifulControllers Author:Jackie Warner
“Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.” PeopleKnowsSchoolCertainCommunityCompanyHigh SchoolTownsInstitutionsPublishingSmall Town Author:Alice Hoffman
“I am certain that we do not need quotas for women, especially not in a time when we have a growing shortage of qualified workers. Companies are already asking head hunters to find women for top positions.” NeedsCertainCompanyGrowingPositionAskingWorkersHuntersQualifiedShortageQuota Author:Kristina Schroder
“Generally speaking, you only put someone on paid leave if you're pretty certain that they might be terminated from the company once you do your investigation.” IfsMightCertainCompanyPaidInvestigationYou Re Pretty Author:Kris Dunn
“Some of the largest companies are now using brain scans to study how we react neurologically to certain foods, especially to sugar. They've discovered that the brain lights up for sugar the same way it does for cocaine...” WayDoeLightCertainBrainCompanyStudySugarCocaineLight Up Author:Michael Moss
“We were young. We were 23. I was a kid, growing up, that would burn and fry. I didn't understand why. We did all this study and research and learned so much about skin cells and rejuvenation and how the body works and (how) everybody is different. (We) learned what doctors do for treatment of certain things and so I changed my direction and opened up a skin-care company - healthy tanning, skin-care products and rejuvenation and all of that and it took off.” DifferentBodyCareKidsYoungCertainCompanyGrowing UpStudyGrowingChangedProductsHealthyResearchDoctorsSkinsCellsTreatmentKids Growing UpSkin CareRejuvenationTanningBody Work Author:Drew Waters
“I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.” PeopleShouldRunningCertainBeliefProcessCompanyTreatsEmployeeGood Business Author:Adam McKay
“People are conditioned to believe that error is inevitable.... However, we do not accept the same standard when it comes to our personal life. If we did, we would resign ourselves to being shortchanged now and then when we cash our paychecks. We would expect hospital nurses to drop a certain percentage of all newborn babies. We would expect to go home to the wrong house periodically. As individuals we do not tolerate these things. Thus we have a double standard, one for ourselves, one for the company.” PeopleIfsBelieveHomeCertainHouseIndividualCompanyAcceptingBabyStandardsErrorsInevitableHospitalsNurseCashNow And ThenToleratePersonal LifePercentagesPaychecksNewbornDouble StandardNewborn Baby Author:Phil Crosby
“While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible. Once a company that produces a certain product goes out of business, it has no simple way to uncover how its product encoded data. The code is thus lost, and the software is inaccessible. Knowledge has been destroyed.” WayHas BeensStillsUsedCertainLostSimpleCompanyCreativeCenturyProduceProductsProgramDestroyedDataCodeSoftwareCreative WorkInaccessibleSimple Ways Author:Lawrence Lessig
“Now it's of peculiar interest to an Arab country that there is a company and a certain set of bankers who also finance the World Federation of Mental Health. ...and we see that although the KGB and so forth seems to be associated with the World Federation of Mental Health, their other organization in action seems to go back to Jewish Bankers.” WorldCountrySeemsActionCertainInterestCompanyOrganizationMental HealthFinancePeculiarBankersFederationKgb Author:L. Ron Hubbard