“The Church must be seen as the company of pilgrims on the way to the end of the world and the ends of the earth.” WorldWayEndsEarthChurchCompanyEnd Of The WorldPilgrim Author:Lesslie Newbigin
“I came of age at the end of the 1960s, just when video was also coming into the world. Companies such as Sony and Panasonic were starting to market it and we artists immediately knew how it could be used.” WorldEndsAgeUsedArtistCompanyStartingVideo1960sSony Author:Bill Viola
“It would be nice to make a movie that other people want to make, because every one of these movies, I basically have to find the only company in the world that's willing to make it, and it's always a big challenge. I end up spending a tremendous amount of energy and time trying to get money to make these movies and it's exhausting.” PeopleWorldWantTryingEndsBigsWould BeEnergyChallengesCompanyNiceWillingAmountSpendingBeing NiceExhaustingGet MoneyBig Challenges Author:Darren Aronofsky
“Never work for a company that says people are its most important asset. If you wanted to get a mortgage and you said that your only asset was people you would end up living in a tent.” PeopleIfsSaidImportantEndsWantedCompanyAssetsMortgageTents Author:Guy Browning
“Is there any fairness in a system where a group of people can borrow a bunch of money to buy a company and pay themselves millions of dollars in dividends and fees, while the company itself ends up bankrupt and its employees lose their jobs, health insurance and pensions?” PeopleEndsJobsLosesPayCompanyMillionsGroupsDollarsBunchEmployeeFairnessFeesPensionDividends Author:William D. Cohan
“Many, perhaps most, very learned people prefer the company of their books to sitting in a crowd listening to history and art being mangled; furthermore, it is unlikely that the venerable scholars will stand up afterward to declare, "This lecture was a load of crap." The more profound a professor's distaste with the proceedings, the more likely he is to melt away at the end of the talk.” PeopleArtBookEndsCompanyListeningArt IsSittingProfoundCrowdsProfessorsScholarLoadCrapUnlikelyLecturesProceedingDistasteHistory And Art Author:Camille Paglia
“Someone in the society has to deal with the reality that there are finite resources and we're making trade-offs, and be explicit about that. When the car companies were found to have a memo that actually said, "This safety feature costs X and saved Y lives," the very existence of that memo was considered damning. Or when you made it reimbursable for a doctor to ask, "Do you want heroic care at the end-of-life," that was a death panel. No, it wasn't a death panel! It was asking somebody to make a decision.” WantMadeSaidEndsRealityCareAsksFoundDecisionDealsExistenceCompanyCarCostResourcesDoctorsAskingSafetyTradeSavedMade ItFeaturesHeroicFiniteEnd Of LifeExplicitTrade OffsMemos Author:Bill Gates
“Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!” EndsProcessCompanyDesignFemaleInnovationConsumersEmployeeTargetUsersEmpoweredMarketplaceLikelihoodUtilizing Author:Indra Nooyi
“The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.” FeelsFirstsMayEndsHappinessJoyCompanyFoolLaughterSmileMelancholy Author:Oliver Goldsmith
“The best cover letters I've read are from people who have a passion for my company, and can make that passion come to life on a page. The letters that make me say, 'Yes! This person really gets it.' Because, at the end of the day, I want to hire people who already get it. Most hiring managers do.” PeopleWantPersonsEndsPassionCompanyPagesLettersManagersThe End Of The DayHiring Author:Kathryn Minshew
“I'm more interested in a feminism that ends discrimination for all people. It's not just about a woman becoming the CEO of a company or something. It's connected to racism and classism and gender issues that go beyond the binary.” PeopleEndsCompanyIssuesFeminismBecomingRacismGenderConnectedDiscriminationCeoBinaryClassismGender Issues Author:Kathleen Hanna
“Unfortunately our stock is somehow not well understood by the markets. The market compares us with generic companies. We need to look at Biocon as a bellwether stock. A stock that is differentiated, a stock that is focused on R&D, and a very-very strong balance sheet with huge value drivers at the end of it.” NeedsWellsLooksEndsValuesStrongCompanyHugeBalanceUnderstoodFocusedCompareDriversVery StrongSheetsGenericBalance Sheets Author:Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
“Whether you're moving to a new company or a new department within your current organization, I believe you'll end up miles ahead if you shop for a boss, not a position. You may secure the greatest job in the world, but a miserable boss will turn gold into ashes. ... In many ways, your boss may be more important than the job.” IfsWorldWayBelieveMayImportantEndsJobsMovingTurnsI BelieveWorkCompanyPositionGoldOrganizationCurrentsMilesSecureMiserableDepartmentShopsBossAshesNew Company Author:Pat Heim
“At the (record company) meeting Paul just kept mithering on about what we were going to do, so in the end I just said, 'I think you're daft. I want a divorce.'” ThinkingWantSaidEndsCompanyMusicRecordsMusic IsMeetingsDivorceRecord CompaniesDaft Author:John Lennon
“When a warrior has put an end to his routines, when he doesn't care anymore whether he has company or is alone, because he has heard the silent whisper of the spirit; then you can say that, truly, he has died. From that point on, even the simplest things in life become extraordinary for him.” EndsCareSpiritCompanyHeardDiedSilentExtraordinaryWarriorThings In LifeSimplestHe Doesn't Care Author:Carlos Castaneda
“You'd better have the technology knowledge. I really urge you not to think you can start a whole company and business with just ideas on paper, because you'll end up owning so few of those ideas.” ThinkingIdeasEndsWholeCompanyTechnologyPaperUrges Author:Steve Wozniak
“Italy is famous for fashion, food, Ferrari, and furniture - furniture was a segment where the companies in the high end are all small.” EndsCompanyFashionFurnitureFerrari Author:Luca Cordero di Montezemolo
“We say, 'Shall we meet for a drink?', as though drinking were the main end of the appointment, and the matter of company only incidental, we are so shy about admitting our need for one another.[...]We say, 'Would you like to come for some coffee?', as though it were less frightening to acknowledge that we are heavily dependent on mildly stimulating drinks, than to acknowledge that we are at all dependent on the companionship of other people.” PeopleNeedsEndsMatterCompanyDrinkDrinkingCoffeeAcknowledgeDependentShyFrighteningCompanionshipAppointmentsAdmitting Author:Jonathan Coe
“Companies that model best practices, that model the most upstanding principles, end up as the most profitable. It's not a trade of profits versus principles.” EndsCompanyPrinciplesPracticeModelsTradeProfitVersusProfitableBest Practices Author:Philip Zimbardo
“A corporation is simply a form of organization used by human beings to achieve desired ends... Protecting the free-exercise rights of corporations like Hobby Lobby, Conestoga, and Mardel protects the religious liberty of the humans who own and control those companies.” HumansEndsRealityFormUsedReligionPoliticsChurchReligiousHuman BeingsCompanyLibertyRightsAchievePolicyExerciseProtectOrganizationSeparationIdeologyCorporationsHobbiesChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateReligious Liberty Author:Samuel Alito
“Unlike return, however, risk is no more quantifiable at the end of an investment that it was at its beginning. Risk simply cannot be described by a single number. Intuitively we understand that risk varies from investment to investment: a government bond is not as risky as the stock of a high-technology company. But investments do not provide information about their risks the way food packages provide nutritional data.” WayEndsGovernmentNumbersCompanyTechnologyRiskInformationReturnInvestmentInvestingDataPackagesVaryHigh Technology Author:Seth Klarman
“If you're preparing a dinner for friends or a holiday dinner, make sure to only prepare recipes you are comfortable with and have cooked before. Cooking for others is not the time to try out a recipe for the first time. You end up spending all your time in the kitchen instead of enjoying your company.” IfsTryingFirstsEndsEnjoyCompanyComfortableFirst TimeCookingDinnerSpendingKitchenHolidayPreparingRecipesCooking For Others Author:Rachael Ray
“We've seen a lot of data at YC now, and the most successful companies and the ones where the investors do the best... end up giving a lot of stock out to employees- year after year after year.” GivingYearsEndsCompanySuccessfulDataEmployeeInvestorsDo The BestSuccessful Company Author:Sam Altman
“They can bring the technology in, then you can sell to the enterprise when they want to have better control, better security... you still have the same biz model as a traditional enterprise sw company, but the way to get into the company is through the end user.” WayWantStillsEndsCompanyTechnologySecurityBuildingModelsSellsTraditionalEnterpriseUsers Author:Aaron Levie
“At the end of the day, people (customers) don't necessarily buy into what you do; they buy into why you do it. People buy Apple because they love the Apple brand - what it stands for - they feel proud to be associated with that brand. What makes Google or Virgin or any of these 'superior' brands what they are is that they have a mission to change the world. Those are the kinds of companies that will endure the test of time.” PeopleWorldFeelsKindEndsCompanyProudTestsEndureMissionsCustomersSuperiorsBrandsApplesChanging The WorldThe End Of The DayGoogleVirginsTest Of Time Author:Omar Samra
“There were certainly those who rubbed their eyes in astonishment. But when we held a company discussion forum with Joschka Fischer, interest was high. Six hundred senior managers came to the meeting. In the end, there was tremendous applause for Fischer, because he offered a precise analysis of the challenges our industry faces worldwide.” EndsEyeFacesInterestChallengesCompanyIndustrySixHundredMeetingsManagersDiscussionAnalysisSeniorPreciseApplauseAstonishmentForumsFischer Author:Norbert Reithofer
“Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.” EndsCompanyDictionaryWalt Author:David Lodge
“Faith shall save your Soul from Death. Without Faith, Death is a drowning, the end of ends, and what sane man wouldn't fear that? But with Faith, Death is nothing worse than the end of the voyage we call life, and the beginning of an eternal voyage in a company of our Loved Ones, with griefs and woes smoothed out, and under the capacity of our Creator.” MenLoveSoulEndsAgeGriefCompanyEternalCapacityCreatorYour SoulLoved OnesSaneWoeDrowningVoyages Author:David Mitchell
“I think the consumption of music is at an all-time high. But I think the ways that record companies are trying to monetize it is just all over the place. At the end of the day, music is in the clouds. Before, you could hold it, look at it, turn it around. Now, it's just in the air.” ThinkingWayTryingLooksEndsTurnsCompanyRecordsAirMusic IsCloudsAll TimeThe End Of The DayConsumptionRecord Companies Author:Jay-Z
“When you have the Chief of Staff of the Republican National Committee and the political director of the Romney campaign, and their two companies get $150 million at the end of the campaign for the 'fantastic' get-out-the-vote program... some of this borders on RICO violations.” TwoEndsPoliticalCompanyMillionsRepublicanDirectorsProgramVoteCampaignsChiefsFantasticBordersStaffCommitteesRomneyViolationRicoChief Of Staff Author:Patrick Caddell
“I try getting in front of as many opportunities as possible, but in the late '90s, I had no idea that I'd end up being CFO of a technology company. I'd no idea what venture capital was.” TryingIdeasEndsOpportunityCompanyTechnologyFrontsLateNo IdeaVentureVenture CapitalCfo Author:Roelof Botha
“Having a higher purpose is more than just about profits. You actually end up making more profits in the long run because employees really are a lot more engaged and customers see the higher purpose in the company.” LongEndsRunningPurposeCompanyHigherProfitCustomersEngagedEmployeeLong RunsHigher Purpose Author:Tony Hsieh