“The insurance companies do not refer to the key policy rate when they send their statements. We can only control that rate. Long-term interest rates are determined largely by global financial markets.” LongTermInterestCompanyPolicyKeysRateFinancialDeterminedStatementsLong TermInterest RateInsurance CompaniesFinancial Markets Author:Mario Draghi
“The climate, financial and national security crises are all connected. They share the same cause: Our [the USA's] absurd dependency on foreign oil. As long as we need to spend billions of dollars each year to buy foreign oil from state-run oil companies in the Persian Gulf, our problems of a trade deficit, a budget deficit and a climate crisis will persist.” NeedsYearsLongStatesProblemRunningCausesCompanyShareSecurityCrisisTradeDollarsClimateFinancialConnectedOilBillionsAbsurdBudgetsUsaPersistNational SecurityDeficitDependencyPersianOil CompaniesForeign OilBudget DeficitPersian Gulf Author:Al Gore
“I have told our senior executives that I will slaughter holy cows if it benefits the company's long-term success. When we asked ourselves whether Formula 1 still matched the concept of a sustainable company, the clear answer was no.” IfsLongStillsTermAnswersCompanyClearHolyBenefitsConceptsLong TermExecutivesFormulasCowsSeniorSlaughterMatchedFormula 1Long Term Success Author:Norbert Reithofer
“There does need to be a speed-up of the process.It takes entirely too long to addres5 some of those concerns and, in the process, it becomes so extremely expensive and cumbersome that it tends to turn away those people and companies that want to provide much needed housing.” PeopleWantNeedsLongDoeTurnsProcessCompanyNeededConcernSpeedExpensiveHousing Author:George Deukmejian
“I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.” LongCompanyLibraryYearningLamps Author:Lord Byron
“Preserve the core, and let the rest flux. In their wonderful bestseller Built to Last, authors James Collins and Jerry Porras make a convincing argument that long-lived companies are able to thrive 50 years or more by retaining a very small heart of unchanging values, and then stimulating progress in everything else. At times "everything" includes changing the business the company operates in, migrating, say, from mining to insurance. Outside the core of values, nothing should be exempt from flux. Nothing.” ShouldYearsHeartLongAbleLastsValuesBusinessCompanyProgressWonderfulBuiltArgumentCorePreservesThriveConvincingJerryMiningFluxUnchangingRetaining Author:Kevin Kelly
“At college, I felt frustrated thinking three years was a long time and I just wanted a job but afterwards I was in employment the whole time. I got into a theatre company and started doing stand-up gigs for cash, so I lived hand-to-mouth, but there was always enough to pay the bills.” ThinkingYearsLongEnoughWholeHandsWantedJobsThreeFeltPayCompanyCollegeLong TimeMouthsBillsTheatreEmploymentThree YearsCashFrustratedGigs Author:Bill Bailey
“I think you're peripatetic when you work in this industry. My husband and I are assuming the role of co-artistic directors at the Sydney Theatre Company in 2008. But as long as the film industry will have me, I will have it.” ThinkingLongFilmCompanyRolesIndustryDirectorsHusbandAssumingTheatreArtisticMy HusbandFilm IndustrySydney Author:Cate Blanchett
“The evidence seems clear that those business which actively serve their many constitutencies in creative, morally thoughtful ways also, over the long run, serve their shareholders best. Companies do, infact, do well by doing good.” WayWellsLongSeemsRunningCompanyCreativeClearEvidenceThoughtfulLong RunsDoing GoodShareholdersBest Company Author:Norman Lear
“There's a long history of subsidized philanthropy - particularly in the USA - and again the public has come to expect corporations to play a role in their social welfare. It's become easy for some companies to profit from citizen goodwill and volunteerism.” LongPlaySocialEasyCompanyRolesCitizensProfitCorporationsWelfareUsaPhilanthropyGoodwillVolunteerismSocial Welfare Author:Ravida Din
“When I started Cove, I spoke to three immigration lawyers who gave me a long checklist of things to do before my company could hire immigrants.” LongThreeCompanyLawyerImmigrationThings To DoImmigrantsSpokesChecklists Author:Ruchi Sanghvi
“The companies I have traditionally seen do best over the long term had lead investors for their seed rounds” LongTermCompanyRoundsSeedsLong TermInvestors Author:Keith Rabois
“The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code for the August 1953 coup] taught tyrants and aspiring tyrants there that the world's most powerful governments were willing to tolerate limitless oppression as long as oppressive regimes were friendly to the West and to Western oil companies. That helped tilt the political balance in a vast region away from freedom and toward dictatorship.” WorldLongGovernmentPoliticalPowerfulCompanyDemocracyMiddleTaughtWillingBalancePaidWestWesternHeavyOilEastOppressionCodeOperationsRegionsFriendlyMost PowerfulTyrantsRegimesMiddle EastDictatorshipTolerateLimitlessCiaAugustCoupsTiltOil CompaniesAjaxPowerful Government Author:Stephen Kinzer
“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
“Roads are long; make them short with a good company!” LongCompanyGood Company Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“War is like a game of chess ... but with this little difference, that in chess you may think over each move as long as you please and are not limited for time, and with this difference too, that a knight is always stronger than a pawn, and two pawns are always stronger than one, while in war a battalion is sometimes stronger than a division and sometimes weaker than a company. The relative strength of bodies of troops can never be known to anyone.... Success never depends, and never will depend, on position, or equipment, or even on numbers, and least of all on position.” ThinkingMayLittlesLongTwoWarSometimesBodyMovingGamesDifferencesNumbersCompanyKnownPositionDependsPleaseStrongerChessDivisionRelativeTroopsEquipmentKnightsPawns Author:Leo Tolstoy
“If Max [Aitken] gets to Heaven he won't last long. He will be chucked out for trying to pull off a merger between Heaven and Hell ... after having secured a controlling interest in key subsidiary companies in both places, of course.” IfsTryingLongLastsCoursesHeavenInterestCompanyHellKeysMaxHeaven And HellSecuredMergers Author:H. G. Wells
“The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld.” LongAbilityCompanySuccessfulProductsAddFunctionalitySuccessful Company Author:Bill Gates