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“The success of the dinner depends as much upon the company as the cook. Discordant elements - people invited alphabetically, or to pay off debts - are fatal.”

People Pay Company Depends Elements Dinner Debt Cooks Invited

Book:Society as I Have Found it

Source: Society as I Have Found it

“A congressman actually apologized to BP's CEO for the way the company has been treated. How stupid are you when the CEO of BP is in the room and people think you're the moron?”

People Thinking Way Has Beens Rooms Company Stupid Treated Ceo Moron Congressman

Author:Jay Leno

“Providing the best photo sharing experience is one reason why so many people love Facebook and we knew it would be worth bringing these two companies together.”

People Two Reason Would Be Together Company Reason Why Providing

Author:Mark Zuckerberg

“There are a handful of companies who understand all successful business operations come down to three basic principles; People---Product---Profit. Without top people, you cannot do much with the other two.”

People Two Three Company Principles Successful Products Profit Operations Handful Successful Business Basic Principles

Author:Malcolm Forbes

“Good presidents, people like George Bush, they SEND people to war. They don't bring them a rescue. This is America. We rescue insurance companies and banks.”

People War America President Company Rescue Insurance Companies

Author:Bill Maher

“The most effective leaders of companies in transition are the quiet, unassuming people whose inner wiring is such that the worst circumstances bring out their best. They're unflappable, they're ready to die if they have to. But you can trust that, when bad things are happening, they will become clearheaded and focused.”

People Ifs Dies Company Leader Worst Ready Circumstances Quiet Happenings Management Focused Bad Things Transition Ready To Die Wiring Unassuming

Author:James C. Collins

“If you manage a team of 10 people, its quite possible to do so with very few mistakes or bad behaviors. If you manage an organization of 1,000 people it is quite impossible. At a certain size, your company will do things that are so bad that you never imagined that youd be associated with that kind of incompetence.”

People Ifs Kind Certain Mistake Company Impossible Team Behavior Organization Size Manage Incompetence Bad Behavior

Author:Ben Horowitz

“Companies don't have ideas; only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds and loyalty and trust they develop between each other. What matters is the mortar, not just the bricks.”

People Ideas Company

Author:Margaret Heffernan

“Take rather than give the tone to the company you are in. If you have parts you will show them more or less upon every subject; and if you have not, you had better talk sillily upon a subject of other people's than of your own choosing.”

People Ifs Giving Shows Company Subjects Tone

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“Talk often, but never long; in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers. Pay your own reckoning, but do not treat the whole company; this being one of the few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay.”

People Ifs Long Whole Care Pay Company Talking Cases Please Treats Convinced Treated Tire Reckoning

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in mixed company; it should only be treated among a very few people of learning, for mutual instruction. It is too awful and respectable a subject to become a familiar one.”

People Should Mean Religion Company Subjects Conversation Treated Familiar Awful Mutual Instruction Respectable Taboo

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“Never yield to that temptation, which, to most young men, is very strong, of exposing other people's weaknesses and infirmities, for the sake either of diverting the company, or of showing your own superiority. You may get the laugh on your side by it for the present; but you will make enemies by it for ever; and even those who laugh with you then, will, upon reflection, fear, and consequently hate you.”

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“Endeavor, as much as you can, to keep company with people above you.... Do not mistake, when I say company above you, and think that I mean with regard to their birth; that is the least consideration; but I mean with regard to their merit, and the light in which the world considers them.”

People Thinking World Mean Light Mistake Company Birth Regard Merit Consideration Endeavor

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“Many people come into company full of what they intend to say in it themselves, without the least regard to others; and thus charged up to the muzzle are resolved to let it off at any rate.”

People Company Regard Rate Egotism Muzzle

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“This idea of anticipation is key to investing and to business generally. You can't wait for an opportunity to become obvious. You have to think, "Here's what other people and companies have done under certain circumstances. Now, under these new circumstances, how is this management likely to behave?"”

People Thinking Ideas Done Certain Opportunity Waiting Company Keys Circumstances Management Investing Obvious Behave Anticipation

Author:Edward Lampert

“Even in those earlier times, finding the really outstanding companies and staying with them through all the fluctuations of a gyrating market proved far more profitable to far more people than did the more colorful practice of trying to buy them cheap and sell them dear.”

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Author:Philip Arthur Fisher

“You know, people tend to like to buy companies that are doing well.”

People Knows Wells Values Company Investing

Author:Walter Schloss

“I'm a passive investor. There are people who are very aggressive; they try to buy companies.”

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Author:Walter Schloss

“While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.”

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Author:Dan Ariely

“People yearn to be in one of the best--a combat marine regiment, an elite college, the executive committee of a company, a religious sect, a fraternity, a garden club--any collectivity that can be compared favorably with other, competing groups.”

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Author:E. O. Wilson

“What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also to make what might later on be a mistake. This is the attitude I want to build within San Francisco - give some time to the tech community.”

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Author:Ed Lee

“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.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“We wield an enormous influence over the world through how we choose to vote and what we choose to buy. Again, it's the power of numbers. If voters hold their leaders responsible for doing something about global warming, it will get done. If most people refuse to buy products from companies that, for example, wrap products in more plastic than necessary, pretty soon the plastic wrapping will stop.”

People Ifs World Done Numbers Company Leader Influence Example Products Vote Responsible Refuse Enormous Global Warming Voters Plastic Wraps Wrapping

Book:Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming

Source: Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming

“It is not fair that people who are born in the UK to parents who are domiciled here, can later in life claim to be non-doms and live here, it is not fair that non-doms with residential property here in the UK can put it in an offshore company and avoid inheritance tax.”

People Life Parent Born Company Taxes Fairs Claims Property Inheritance Not Fair Later In Life Offshore Doms Inheritance Tax

Author:George Osborne

“Here in the Great Lakes region, a fourth year in a row of declining water levels has caused millions of dollars in losses for shipping companies, marinas and other businesses and prompted further restrictions on future water withdrawals for expanding suburbs. "A lot of people just can't believe that we may be running out of water, living this close to the Great Lakes," said Sarah Nerenberg, a water engineer with the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission, which conducted the study on shortages.”

“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.”

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Author:Fujio Mitarai

“Canon is basically a very aggressive company. Our company works on competitive principles. It does not treat people equally, but it does treat them fairly.”

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Author:Fujio Mitarai

“If you look at the world's top 50 drugs being sold today, they are being marketed and sold by companies that did not invent them. I respect patents. I'll pay a royalty. But I shouldn't be denied the right to produce drugs for poor people at reasonable prices.”

People Ifs World Looks Today Poor Pay Company Produce Drug Reasonable Denied Poor People Royalty Patents

Author:Yusuf Hamied

“Can you be alone without being lonely? Can you spend time by yourself without craving noise or company of other people? Have you discovered the glory of quiet time spent alone, time spent listening to your soul? Solitude brings with it gifts that come from nowhere else.”

People Soul Company Listening Solitude Quiet Glory Lonely Noise Your Soul End Times Craving Spend Time Being Lonely Time Spent Alone Time Quiet Time

Author:Steve Goodier

“Eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help. Whether it's going to be a consortium or one entity remains to be seen. I could be wrong. I could be one of the old fogies! Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing. It happens. A company has to be willing to bear the risk of its rocket failing. It's a very large capital investment.”

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Author:Sally Ride

“You're creating music to pull people into a world, whether it be a visual medium where music is just one element, or a purely musical medium. Either way, you're trying to transport people and to create a connection. I've always felt that the best films and the best albums can be the best company. If people feel a little bit less alone because of something I had a hand in creating than I feel like I'm contributing to the world in a positive way.”

“I'm excited that more people, especially men, are understanding that equality is good for them. I don't want men to want equality for women because they're being nice to their colleagues and daughters. I want men to want it because it's better for their companies and their lives.”

People Men Want Understanding Company Nice Daughter Excited Want Me Being Nice Colleagues Women Equality

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“Companies watch what consumers are doing like a hawk. Just as one letter to a politician can signal an insipient problem, for companies, a trend where people are beginning to switch away from one of their key products to a rival offering on the basis of either claims or real improvements on performance, that's significant.”

People Real Problem Company Watches Products Keys Politician Letters Performances Bases Claims Improvement Significant Consumers Trends Offering Signals Rivals Hawks

Author:John Elkington

“The corporations have taken over. Even in the recording studio. Actually, the corporate companies have taken over American life most everywhere. Go coast to coast and you will see people wearing the same clothes, thinking the same thoughts, eating the same food. Everything is processed.”

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Author:Bob Dylan

“Fans decide what pop culture is. We can define ourselves. Music and the presentation of art nowadays is totally in our control, with the Internet specifically. You no longer need record labels. You no longer need movie distribution companies. You can just make it and put it online, and it will distribute itself to millions of people. The borders and everything have been broken down. It really is in the hands of the people.”

People Needs Has Beens Art Hands Culture Company Millions Records Fans Broken Internet Pops Labels Borders Online Distribution Pop Culture Presentation Record Labels Broken Down

Author:Laura Jane Grace

“I had an idea for a medical conspiracy thriller. Since it was non-horror, I didn't want the publishers and editors bringing a lot of baggage - my history as a genre writer in the SF and horror fields, for instance - to the novel when they read it. I wanted them to consider the book solely on its own merits. So I called myself Colin Andrews. I was tired of seeing my books at floor level. Not that Herman Wouk and Phyllis Whitney and William Wharton are bad company, but I wanted to be up at eye level for a change, where people with bad backs could get a chance to see my books.”

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Author:F. Paul Wilson

“People often say to me, "How come you don't want to be CEO of a company?" And I tell them, "I don't want to." I know I can do it, but I don't enjoy it. Why does that have to be the definition of success?”

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Author:Charlene Li

“One of the things I'm real proud of is I just made a deal with 20th Century Fox, and I've got my own production company now. I'm developing some television and movies for other people because I have a lot of fresh new ideas. To write is what I love the most.”

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Author:Dolly Parton

“People get famous now for I-don't-know-what. People have reality shows because they're a Hollywood socialite, and these things become very successful and they generate a shitload of money for the company. And it's multiplying, to where you're literally looking into your next door neighbor's bathroom with reckless abandon. It is like watching a fire. You can't take your eyes off of it.”

People Knows Shows Reality Eye Next Company Successful Fire Doors Hollywood Neighbor Abandon Bathroom Reckless Reality Shows Multiplying Next Door Neighbors Socialites Reckless Abandon

Author:Johnny Depp

“Most companies, 97 percent or more, put all their focus on clever advertising and clever taglines to get people to buy average or mediocre products. You need to back off and offer a really good product or service.”

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Author:Brian Tracy

“It's no longer terribly sexy to own shares in certain companies; it used to be that being a shareholder in a corporation would connect you with it. The result is that people really want to invest in valuable things, and contemporary art has become a very stable material value with great growth potential.”

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Author:Thomas Koerfer

“When the trust is high, you get the trust dividend. Investors invest in brands people trust. Consumers buy more from companies they trust, they spend more with companies they trust, they recommend companies they trust, and they give companies they trust the benefit of the doubt when things go wrong.”

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Author:Stephen Covey

“My company is called Talking Monkey, Inc. It's because that's what I think all people are: talking monkeys.”

People Thinking Company Talking Monkeys

Author:Joe Rogan

“Leadership is a choice. It's not a rank, it's a choice. I know many people who are at the top of their organization who have authority. We have to do what they say because they have authority over us. But they're not leaders. We wouldn't follow them. They may be at the top of the company but they're not leaders.”

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Author:Simon Sinek

“Part of the talent of any company is to surround yourself with people who have good spirit and help you do more and more things.”

People Helping Spirit Company Talent Surround Surround Yourself Surround Yourself With People

Author:Marc Jacobs

“Not everyone can be an astronaut and go into space, some people with sufficient resources can purchase and fly sub-orbitally thanks to various companies and for more money (considerably) fly into orbit.”

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Author:Buzz Aldrin

“The more valuable you become [in your company], the more influence you have, the better communicator you are, you manage your time better, and you recognize people for their contributions. You also become more valuable as a spouse, parent and friend.”

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Author:Jim Rohn

“Why is it that private insurance companies are not in trouble because people are getting older? Aren't they subject to the same demographics? The difference is that they've accumulated a fund, not a pay-in, pay-out system.”

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Author:Milton Friedman

“People don't realize how much the food industry has infiltrated all aspects of our children's lived experience, including their experience at school. There are sponsored curricula by food companies, they're also in our schools with logos sponsoring sports teams.”

People Children School Sports Realizing Company Team Industry Aspect Our Children Including Logos Sports Team Food Industry

Author:Anna Lappe

“People don't want to change. It's hard for people to change and it's hard for businesses to change. If I was running an oil company, I would be resistant to change too.”

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Author:Ed Begley, Jr.

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