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“I knew Otto Kahn [According to the Figaro, Mr. Kahn on first going to America was a clerk in the firm of Speyer and Company, and married a grand-daughter of Mr. Wolf, one of the founders of Kuhn, Loeb & Company], the multi-millionaire, for many years. I knew him when he was a patriotic German. I knew him when he was a patriotic American. Naturally, when he wanted to enter the House of Commons, he joined the 'patriotic party.'”

Years Firsts Wanted America House Party Company Married Daughter Jew Firm Patriotic Founders Millionaire Clerks American Patriotic House Of Commons Grand Daughter

Author:Denis Fahey

“What any manager will try to bring to a company first and foremost is an energy and commitment to the business. To try and really roll your sleeves up.”

Trying Firsts Energy Company Commitment Managers Sleeves

Author:James Murdoch

“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.”

Firsts Ideas Grows Company Phones Employee Employed Cellular Starting Up Cellular Phones

Author:Jack Markell

“I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.”

Firsts School Actors Company Needed Theater Expanding New Company

Author:Charles Kimbrough

“It took us 200 years to elect the first Democratic woman to the Senate in her own right, and that's Barbara Mikulski. Six years later, we had a grand slam: We elected four new Democratic women to the Senate. Sen. Mikulski now has some company.”

Years Firsts Company Four Six Democratic Senate Slam Barbara

Author:Ellen Malcolm

“First, the oil and gas business pays its fair share of taxes. Despite the current debate on energy taxes, few businesses pay more in taxes than oil and gas companies. The worldwide effective tax rate for our industry in 2010 was 40 percent. That's higher than the U.S. statutory rate of 35 percent and the rate for manufacturers of 26.5 percent.”

Firsts Energy Pay Company Share Industry Higher Taxes Percent Fairs Rate Currents Oil Debate Despite Gas Fair Share Oil And Gas

Author:John S. Watson

“I have always been an advocate and was, in my last job at M&S, a supporter of the Al Gore dictum that a sustainable business can be a profitable business. We were the first sizeable company in the UK to prove that was the case.”

Firsts Jobs Lasts Company Cases Prove Als Supporter Profitable Gore Profitable Business

Author:Stuart Rose

“When you’re in a startup, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not.”

People Firsts Company Succeed Ten Determine

Author:Steve Jobs

“The act of faith, which separates us from all men, unites us for the first time in real brotherhood; and they who, one by one, come to Jesus and meet Him alone, next find that they are come to the city of God "and to an innumerable company.”

Men Firsts Real Next Jesus Cities Company First Time Brotherhood City Of God

Book:MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

Source: MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

“Bill Gore from Goretex was a very strong influence because he was one of the first larger companies to experiment with freedom in the workplace.”

Firsts Strong Company Influence Bills Experiments Very Strong Workplace Gore

Author:Ricardo Semler

“For example: (1) As if governed by Newton's First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction; (2) Just as work expands to fill available time, corporate projects or acquisitions will materialize to soak up available funds; (3) Any business craving of the leader, however foolish, will be quickly supported by detailed rate-of-return and strategic studies prepared by his troops; and (4) The behavior of peer companies, whether they are expanding, acquiring, setting executive compensation or whatever, will be mindlessly imitated.”

Source: Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha

“Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.”

Firsts Would Be Together Lasts Sin Company Shame

Book:The Works of Anne Bradstreet

Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet

“The first American insurance company was the Friendly Society for the Mutual Insurance of Houses Against Fire, founded in Charles Town in South Carolina, in 1735.”

Firsts House Company Fire Towns South Friendly Mutual Carolina Insurance Companies South Carolina

Author:Andrew Tobias

“The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.”

Feels Firsts May Ends Happiness Joy Company Fool Laughter Smile Melancholy

Author:Oliver Goldsmith

“It's the first company to build the mental position that has the upper hand, not the first company to make the product. IBM didn't invent the computer; Sperry Rand did. But IBM was the first to build the computer position in the prospect's mind.”

Mind Firsts Hands Company Position Products Computer Ibm Upper Hand

Author:Al Ries

“For a company to excel, employees must be reassured that self-interest, not the company's, is their foremost priority. We believe an employee who puts himself first will be motivated to perform.”

Firsts Believe Self Interest Company Priorities Employee Motivated Self Interest

Book:The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works

Source: The Seven-Day Weekend: Changing the Way Work Works

“To survive in modern times, a company must have an organizational structure that accepts change as its basic premise, lets tribal customs thrive, and fosters a power that is derived from respect, not rules. In other words, the successful companies will be the ones that put quality of life first. Do this and the rest - quality of product, productivity of workers, profits for all - will follow.”

“The Da Vinci Code may well be the only novel ever written that begins with the word 'renowned'... I think what enabled the first word to tip me off that I was about to spend a number of hours in the company of one of the worst prose stylists in the history of literature was this. Putting curriculum vitae details into complex modifiers on proper names or definite descriptions is what you do in journalistic stories about deaths; you just don't do it in describing an event in a narrative... Why did I keep reading? Because London Heathrow is a long way from San Francisco International.”

“I never learned the rules in the first place. To change the game is at the heart of what Virgin stands for, so the company culture has always been: "Don't sweat it: rules were meant to be broken."”

Firsts Heart Culture Games Company Broken Meant To Be Sweat Virgins Were Meant To Be Company Culture

Author:Richard Branson

“I was kind of amazed because I first found out about blue boxes in an article in Esquire magazine labeled fiction. That article was the most truthful article I've ever read in my life... That article was so truthful, and it told about a mistake in the phone company that let you dial phone calls anywhere in the world. What an amazing thing to discover.”

World Firsts Kind Found Mistake Fiction Company Blue Phones Boxes Magazines Articles Truthful Amazed Amazing Things Phone Calls

Author:Steve Wozniak

“The spiritual man habitually makes eternity-judgments instead of time-judgments. By faith he rises above the tug of earth and the flow of time and learns to think and feel as one who has already left the world and gone to join the innumerable company of angels and the general assembly and Church of the First-born which are written in heaven. Such a man would rather be useful than famous and would rather serve than be served. And all this must be by the operation of the Holy Spirit within him. No man can become spiritual by himself. Only the free Spirit can make a man spiritual.”

“How friendly are your companies' first words? Just try this...start all conversations with customers using one of the following words or phrases: 'great!' 'no problem', 'you're in luck', 'that's my favorite problem'.”

Trying Firsts Problem Company Conversation Luck My Favorite Following Customers Phrases Friendly No Problem

Author:Jeffrey Gitomer

“The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to leapfrog when it finds itself behind.”

Knows Firsts Ideas Behinds Company Know How Mark Come Up New Ideas Innovative

Author:Steve Jobs

“The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.”

Firsts Play America Company Five Twenties London Adapted Twenty Five Dublin

Book:Seven short plays

Source: Seven short plays

“Companies like Nike already use Graffiti as a standard variety in their marketing campaigns and the first people who read Naomi Klein's 'No Logo' were marketing gurus who wanted to know what they shouldn't do.”

People Knows Firsts Use Wanted Company Standards Marketing Campaigns Variety Guru Graffiti Logos Nike Marketing Campaigns

Author:Johannes Grenzfurthner

“In his first speech as Speaker, Boehner thanked his loved ones - tobacco lobbyists, the oil companies, the CEOs.”

Firsts Company Speech Oil Loved Ones Speakers Ceo Tobacco Lobbyists Oil Companies

Author:Jay Leno

“Despite the fact that Starbucks has grown to be a large company. We've always played music in our stores and has always acted as an opportunity to create a mood in our stores. And customers started asking, "What song are you playing and can I buy that?" . And we said "No." And that was kind of the catalyst for beginning to look at music. We started out with our own compilations and after the success of that. We had the courage to say, "Let's produce our own record." and the first record was with Ray Charles before he unfortunately passed away.”

Firsts Looks Kind Said Facts Song Opportunity Company Records Produce Asking Customers Stores Mood Despite Rays Catalyst Passed Away Starbucks Compilation Large Companies

Author:Howard Schultz

“The script for 'In Good Company' was the first one I ever showed my dad.”

Firsts Company Dad My Dad Scripts Good Company

Author:Topher Grace

“My mother was a secretary that elevated herself to having her own international company, my father elevated himself to an NBA player and perennial all-star. So I learned from my parents that it's about hard work, about both of them getting their education, putting people first and leading a life of integrity.”

People Firsts Hard Mother Father Stars Parent Company Player Hard Work Integrity International Nba Secretary Nba Player All Stars

Author:Brian J. White

“I did my first show when I was five and I was the King of the Oompa Loompas in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The kids theater company, I was the youngest one, so there wasnt a part for me, so they made me the king of the Oompa Loompas.”

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Author:Max Schneider

“What you do is ultimately pointless. You could be replaced any day of the week with the first moron who walks in the door. So work as little as possible, and spend a little time (not too much, though) 'selling yourself' and 'networking' so that you will have backup and will be untouchable (and untouched) the next time the company is restructured.”

Firsts Littles Next Work Walks Business Company Too Much Doors Week Selling Replaced Next Time Networking Pointless Little Time Moron Untouchables Days Of The Week Backup Selling Yourself

Author:Corinne Maier

“Microsoft is the productivity and platform company for the mobile-first and cloud-first world.”

World Firsts Company Clouds Productivity Platforms Mobile Microsoft

Author:Satya Nadella

“I learned my first lesson at the Walt Disney Company about not being able to trust my associates.”

Firsts Able Company Lessons Associates Walt Disney Company Walt Disney Company

Author:Michael Ovitz

“I realized that performing was what I wanted to do when I did my first professional gig as a dancer with my company Synergy in Canada. I was overwhelmed with how it felt to perform in front of an audience.”

Firsts Wanted Felt Company Audience Fronts I Realized Performing Dancer Canada Overwhelmed Gigs Synergy

Author:Catherine Mary Stewart

“By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company.”

Firsts Long Company Fate Worst Position Drawing Employment Chiefs Hated Irony Telephones Secured Annoyance Electrician

Author:Nikola Tesla

“I don't think our fiduciary duty is to put shareholders first. I say the opposite. What we firmly believe is that if we focus our company on improving the lives of the world's citizens and come up with genuine sustainable solutions, we are more in synch with consumers and society and ultimately this will result in good shareholder returns.”

Ifs Thinking World Firsts Believe Results Company Focus Duty Return Citizens Solutions Opposites Come Up Genuine Consumers Improving Shareholders Fiduciary

Author:Paul Polman

“My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from the street. He was homeless, but eventually he got a car so he could sell from the boot. And by the 1980s, he was a millionaire wholesaling to companies like Topshop. So in a way, fashion put me in England.”

Way Firsts Persons Company Streets Fashion Car England Sells Brown Boots Homeless Uncles 1960s Millionaire Lanes Topshop

Author:M.I.A.

“Some of the biggest bores I've ever known are men who have been highly successful in business, particularly self-made heads of big companies. Before the first olive has settled into the first martini, they pour the stories of their lives into the nearest and sometimes the remotest ears capturable.... These men have indeed paid the price of success. To rise to the top of a big company often takes a totality of effort, concentration and dedication. Others, too, have to pay part of the price. Wife and children are out of mind even when in sight.”

“It is not done to let anybody be too happy. The moment two people seem to be enjoying one another's company, a good hostess introduces a third element or removes the first.”

People Firsts Two Done Moments Seems Enjoy Company Elements Thirds Remove Introducing Hostesses

Author:Virginia Graham

“When I was in high school, I was the guy directing plays after class. I started my first theater company at 19, and my second theater company at 21. I've always been a guy who doesn't do well with the passive nature of being an actor.”

Firsts Wells Play School Guy Actors Company Class High School Theater Passive

Author:Matthew Lillard

“Quality. That's the first word, the one word that comes to mind when I think of the books published by Abrams. In a world where so many companies are willing to cut corners, to do things the easy way in order to enhance the bottom line, it's gratifying to know that there's one company that obviously takes such pride in its finished product, one company that can always be counted on to design and produce a book that is, itself, as much a work of art as the illustrations on its pages.”

“The funding of mobile first companies will increase significantly.”

Firsts Company Increase Mobile Funding

Author:Keith Teare

“With more and more states legalizing marijuana, companies are lining up to create the first marijuana breathalyzer. Officials say the toughest part is getting stoners to stop trying to inhale off the breathalyzer.”

Trying Firsts States Company Officials Marijuana Stop Trying Inhale Stoners Lining Up Legalizing Marijuana

Author:Jimmy Fallon

“I took a job at the Walt Disney Company and after 18 months decided to go to business school at Harvard. I was awestruck by the campus. My first reaction was I dont belong here. Then I said, Im here; lets get on with it.”

Firsts Said School Jobs Company Months Decided Reactions Harvard Campus Walt Business School Disney Company Awestruck Walt Disney Company

Author:Jason Kilar

“Speculation in oil stock companies was another great evil ... From the first, oil men had to contend with wild fluctuations in the price of oil. ... Such fluctuations were the natural element of the speculator, and he came early, buying in quantities and holding in storage tanks for higher prices. If enough oil was held, or if the production fell off, up went the price, only to be knocked down by the throwing of great quantities of stocks on the market.”

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Author:Ida Tarbell

“To suppose that safety-first consists in having a small gamble in a large number of different companies where I have no information to reach a good judgment, as compared with a substantial stake in a company where one's information is adequate, strikes me as a travesty of investment policy.”

“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.”

Ifs Trying Firsts Ends Enjoy Company Comfortable First Time Cooking Dinner Spending Kitchen Holiday Preparing Recipes Cooking For Others

Author:Rachael Ray

“When you're in a start-up, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not. Each is 10 percent of the company. So why wouldn't you take as much time as necessary to find all the A players? If three were not so great, why would you want a company where 30 percent of your people are not so great? A small company depends on great people much more than a big company does.”

People Ifs Want Firsts Doe Bigs Three Company Player Depends Succeed Ten Percent Determine Great People Big Companies

Author:Steve Jobs

“If you watched companies such as Sony and Samsung grow, they focused first on features and then on industrial design, which made their products look and feel better.”

Ifs Feels Firsts Looks Made Grows Company Design Products Focused Features Feel Better Sony Industrial Design Samsung

Author:Jefferson Han

“Japanese tend to put sales and market share first. They make many products with the aim of raising sales. But then profits decline, and companies find themselves falling into debt... I changed the mindset at Canon by getting people to realize that profits come first.”

People Firsts Fall Realizing Company Share Changed Products Aim Profit Debt Mindset Decline Canon

Author:Fujio Mitarai

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