“If you work for and eventually lead a company, understand that companies have multiple stakeholders including employees, customers, business partners and the communities within which they operate.” IfsCommunityCompanyIncludingCustomersPartnersEmployeeMultipleStakeholderBusiness Partners Author:Don Tapscott
“There is no progress without risk, and in an environment where change is accelerating, risks are multiplying and businesses are increasingly complex, companies need strong, innovative partners to help manage their risk. Our brand clearly sets XL apart as the strong, innovative partner needed in today's market.” NeedsHelpingTodayStrongCompanyEnvironmentProgressRiskNeededComplexesPartnersManageBrandsInnovativeMultiplying Author:Mike McGavick
“The Apple iPad is not going to be the company's next runaway best seller. Not if the industry can help it... With the iPad, Apple may have irked it's somewhat new partner Intel Corp. Intel gets spanked by nobody.” IfsMayHelpingNextCompanyIndustryPartnersApplesSellersIpadsRunawayBest Sellers Author:John C. Dvorak
“An eternal marriage is eternal. Eternal implies continuing growth and improvement. It signifies that love will grow stronger with time and that it extends beyond the grave. It means that each partner will be blessed with the company of the other partner forever. Eternal signifies repentance, forgiveness, long-suffering, patience, hope, charity, love, and humility. All of these things are involved in anything that is eternal, and surely we must learn and practice them if we intend to claim an eternal marriage.” IfsMeanLongSufferingGrowsGrowthCompanyPracticeForeverHumilityInvolvedEternalClaimsStrongerBlessedCharityPartnersImprovementGravesRepentanceContinuingBeing BlessedLong SufferingEternal Marriage Author:F. Burton Howard
“The most important thing you can learn as CEO- one of the hardest things to do is, you have to discipline yourself to see your company... through the eyes of the people that you're working through. Through the eyes of the employees, through the eyes of your partners... through the eyes of the people who you're not talking to and who are not in the room.” PeopleImportantEyeRoomsCompanyTalkingDisciplineManagementImportant ThingsPartnersHardestThings To DoEmployeeCeoHardest ThingNot TalkingThrough The EyesHardest Thing To Do Author:Ben Horowitz
“The biggest influence in my life has been by husband, who is also my partner in the business. We started our companies together, and he's always been there encouraging me to take on new challenges in my life. And when I do take them on, he's right beside me supporting and helping me through all the difficult time.” Has BeensHelpingTogetherDifficultChallengesCompanyInfluenceHusbandPartnersDifficult TimesNew Challenges Author:Anousheh Ansari
“We welcome private investment, but any company or national firm will be a partner of a venture where the result will go mainly to the Bolivian people. Of course, any investor is entitled to recover their investment and take profits. But be assured that these new functions with our partners will also be reinvested in our country for the benefit of the Bolivian people.” PeopleCountryCoursesResultsCompanyBenefitsFunctionInvestmentProfitPartnersWelcomeOur CountryFirmInvestorsEntitledVentureAssured Author:Evo Morales
“The directors of such companies, however, being the managers rather of other people's money than of their own, it cannot well be expected, that they should watch over it with the same anxious vigilance with which the partners in a private copartnery frequently watch over their own.... Negligence and profusion, therefore, must always prevail, more or less, in the management of the affairs of such a company.” PeopleShouldWellsCompanyWatchesDirectorsManagementAffairExpectedPartnersManagersOver ItAnxiousVigilanceNegligence Author:Adam Smith
“As luck would have (it was) in God's hands. It was me...The billionaire (part) was a stretch but I thought the almighty dollar was the way to be happy...and I woke up one morning and I had three retail establishments and a full-blown construction company with partners making great money and I was miserable.” WayHandsThreeCompanyMorningLuckDollarsPartnersMiserableConstructionEstablishmentAlmightyBillionaireRetailGreat MoneyConstruction Company Author:Drew Waters
“I talked to my partners (about) the decision I wanted to do and we all wished each other good luck. My partners have been very successful in the companies that we've created. They're very happy about it and have the mindset to run them and do well with them.” WellsHas BeensRunningWantedDecisionCompanySuccessfulLuckMindsetPartnersVery HappyGood Luck Author:Drew Waters