“As one of the first employees at a small cellular phone start-up called Nextel, I gained firsthand experience in how a business grows from an idea to a company that, at its peak, employed many thousands.” FirstsIdeasGrowsCompanyPhonesEmployeeEmployedCellularStarting UpCellular Phones Author:Jack Markell
“There is a very strong linkage between U.S. banks and European banks. There are plenty of European employees that are employed by U.S. companies, and there are plenty of U.S. employees that are employed by European companies.” StrongCompanyPlentyEmployeeVery StrongEmployedLinkages Author:Christine Lagarde
“The company that employed me strived only to serve up the cheapest fare that the customer would tolerate, churn it out as fast as possible, and charge as much as they could get away with. If it were possible to do so, the company would sell what all businesses of its kind dream about selling, creating that which all of our efforts were tacitly supposed to achieve: the ultimate product -- Nothing. And for this product they would command the ultimate price -- Everything.” IfsKindDreamEffortCompanyAchieveProductsCreatingUltimateSellsCustomersSellingCommandGet AwayTolerateEmployed Author:Thomas Ligotti
“Now, if the Standard Oil Company were the only concern in the country guilty of the practices which have given it monopolistic power, this story never would have been written. Were it alone in these methods, public scorn would long ago have made short work of the Standard Oil Company. But it is simply the most conspicuous type of what can be done by these practices. The methods it employs with such acumen, persistency, and secrecy are employed by all sorts of business men, from corner grocers up to bankers. If exposed, they are excused on the ground that this is business.” IfsMenLongHas BeensMadeCountryDoneStoriesGivenBusinessCompanyPracticeWrittenTypeStandardsConcernMethodCornersOilGuiltyExposedLong AgoEmployedScornSecrecyBankersOil CompaniesBusiness ManAcumenGrocersStandard Oil Book:The History of the Standard Oil Company Source: The History of the Standard Oil Company
“If you love music hear it; go to operas, concerts, and pay fiddlers to play to you; but I insist upon your neither piping nor fiddling yourself. It puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light; brings him into a great deal of bad company; and takes up a great deal of time, which might be much better employed.” IfsPlayLightMightDealsPayCompanyMusicGentlemanConcertsOperaEmployedMusic LoveFrivolousBad CompanyFiddlers Author:Lord Chesterfield
“I remember my sense of shock some half-dozen years ago when I read a recommendation to sell shares of a company ... The recommendation was not based on any long-term fundamentals. Rather, it was that over the next six months the funds could be employed more profitably elsewhere.” YearsLongRememberNextTermHalfCompanyShareMonthsSixYears AgoFundamentalsSellsInvestingLong TermShockFundDozenElsewhereEmployedSix MonthsRecommendations Author:Philip Arthur Fisher