“The full history of the interlocking participation of the Imperial German Government and international finance in the destruction of the Russian Empire is not yet written...It is not a mere coincidence that at the notorious meeting held at Stockholm in 1916, between the former Russian Minister of the Interior, Protopopoff, and the German Agents, the German Foreign Office was represented by Mr. Warburg, whose two brothers were members of the international banking firm, Kuhn, Loeb and Company, of which the late Mr. Jacob Schiff was a senior member.” TwoGovernmentCompanyWrittenBrotherMembersOfficeLateDestructionMeetingsMereInternationalJewFinanceAgentsFormerFirmMinistersEmpiresCoincidenceSeniorParticipationInteriorsBankingJacobNotoriousTwo BrothersStockholm Author:Boris Brasol
“The chairmen of the largest companies in the world can cancel an appointment or move a board meeting; a manager cannot change the date of a game. In the combined 42 years that Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger have managed in English football, I can only remember one occasion when Sir Alex did not attend a Manchester United game.” WorldYearsI CanRememberMovingGamesUnitedCompanyFootballMeetingsManagersOccasionsBoardsChairmanAlexManchesterAppointmentsManchester UnitedFergusonBoard MeetingsEnglish FootballWengerSir Alex Ferguson Author:Howard Wilkinson
“The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient ... But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem. It's ad hoc meetings of six people called by someone who thinks he has figured out the coolest new thing ever and who wants to know what other people think of his idea.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantMeanIdeasProblemNightProcessCompanyCallingSixInnovationMeetingsHolesApplesAdsEfficientNew ThingsNew IdeasBest JobHallwaysInnovation And BusinessReal Jobs Author:Steve Jobs
“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
“Every person - whether Greek or Barbarian - who is in training for wisdom, leading a blameless, irreproachable life, chooses neither to commit injustice nor return it unto others, but to avoid the company of busybodies, and hold in contempt the places where they spend their time - courts, councils, marketplaces, assemblies - in short, every kind of meeting or reunion of thoughtless people. ... People such as these, who find their joy in virtue, celebrate a festival their whole life long.” PeopleKindPersonsLongWholeJoyCompanyVirtueReturnTrainingCourtMeetingsInjusticeWhole LifeCommitCelebrateGreekContemptCouncilFestivalsLong LifeMarketplaceAssemblyBarbariansReunionBlamelessBusybodies Author:Pierre Hadot
“I gave a talk on gender stuff at Facebook one morning and a man didn't come. It was optional; he didn't have to come. But he sent a note saying, "I missed your meeting because I drove my kids to school so my wife could do something else. Thank you for making that possible." I think that employee is a loyal employee for Facebook and I think more companies should want that kind of loyalty.” ThinkingMenWantShouldKindKidsSchoolStuffCompanyMorningWifeMeetingsNotesGenderMy WifeLoyaltyEmployeeLoyalOptionalMissed YouI Missed You Author:Sheryl Sandberg
“You cannot do anything without rousing the masses to action. A plenary meeting of the Soviet must be called to decide on mass searches in Petrograd and the goods stations. To carry out these searches, each factory and company must form contingents, not on a voluntary basis: it must be the duty of everyone to take part in these searches under the threat of being deprived of his bread card. We can't expect to get anywhere unless we resort to terrorism: speculators must be shot on the spot. Moreover, bandits must be dealt with just as resolutely: they must be shot on the spot.” ActionFormCompanyDutyMassShotsBasesThreatMeetingsTerrorismBreadCardsSpotsGoodsStationsSovietFactoriesResortsDeprivedSpeculatorsBandits Author:Vladimir Lenin
“As the company scales, everybody is not going to get invited to every single meeting, but they're gonna want to go to every meeting.” WantCompanyMeetingsScalesInvited Author:Keith Rabois
“The way you scale that is you create notes for every meeting and send it to the entire company.” WayCompanyMeetingsNotesScales Author:Keith Rabois
“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
“He who walks in the company of fools suffers much. Company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful. Company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinfolk.” SufferingWalksPleasureCompanyEnemyWiseFoolMeetingsPainfulBuddhistKinfolk Author:Gautama Buddha
“When this crisis began, crucial decisions about what would happen to some of the world's biggest companies - companies employing tens of thousands of people and holding trillions of dollars in assets - took place in hurried discussions in the middle of the night. We should not be forced to choose between allowing a company to fall into a rapid and chaotic dissolution or forcing taxpayers to foot the bill.” PeopleWorldShouldHappensNightFallDecisionCompanySupportMiddleCrisisDollarsMeetingsAllowingAssetsCrucialEmergenciesRapidsTaxpayersChaoticMiddle Of The NightDissolutionEmploying Author:Barack Obama
“I ended up meeting this guy Stefan Simchowitz, who produced Requiem for a Dream and also went to AFI. I randomly met him in Cannes. By September of 2000, we had made a deal with this company that he was working with. They merged with us and in January of 2001, we opened WireImage. It was pretty crazy because I only started shooting celebrity stuff in 1998 - literally two and a half years later, I'm opening this company.” YearsMadeTwoDreamGuyStuffDealsHalfCompanyCrazyMetsMeetingsOpeningShootingSeptemberThis GuyJanuaryHalf A YearCannesRequiemRequiem For A Dream Author:Jeff Vespa