“When I hear a company is being run by a team, my heart sinks, because you need to have that leader with a vision and heart that can move things forward.” NeedsHeartRunningMovingCompanyLeaderVisionTeamMy Heart Author:Anna Wintour
“A young financial writer once brought ridicule upon himself by stating that a certain company had nothing to commend it except excellent earnings. Well, there are companies whose earnings are excellent but whose stocks I would never recommend. In selecting investments, I attach prime importance to the men behind them. I'd rather buy brains and character than earnings. Earnings can be good one year and poor the next. But if you put your money into securities run by men combining conspicuous brains and unimpeachable character, the likelihood is that the financial results will prove satisfactory.” IfsMenYearsWellsCharacterRunningYoungCertainNextWealthPoorResultsBehindsBrainCompanySecurityHe ManProveImportanceInvestmentFinancialBe GoodExcellentPrimeEarningRidiculeLikelihoodCombiningFinancial Results Author:B. C. Forbes
“For heaven's sake, this is 2015. I've run the largest technology company in the world. Let me assure you we know how to build an employer verification system that would work. We can solve this. We just need to do it.” KnowsWorldNeedsRunningHeavenCompanyTechnologyKnow HowLet MeSakeSolveEmployersVerification Author:John Kasich
“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.” PeopleYearsBelieveMaySaidRunningWaterLossLevelsCompanyMillionsStudyDollarsEnvironmentalPlanningLakesRegionsFourthEngineersExpandingRestrictionSuburbsShortageWithdrawalIllinoisShippingGreat LakesFourth Year Author:Timothy Egan
“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
“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.” PeopleIfsWantHardWould BeRunningCompanyOilOil Companies Author:Ed Begley, Jr.
“Firing people is one of the worst parts of running a company. Actually in my own experience, I think it is the worst.” PeopleThinkingRunningMy OwnCompanyTeamWorstFiring Author:Sam Altman
“There is an increasing gap between academic research and business application. Sometimes the incentives for success in the academic world are not consistent with what it takes to run a company.” WorldSometimesRunningCompanyResearchConsistentGapsApplicationAcademicIncentivesAcademic Research Author:Dave Ulrich
“I think Google's founders are both a couple of guys with some high ideals which have been to some degree reflected in the way the company has been run in terms of its having a very good workplace and good employee programs, and now that they're going public they want in some ways to be able to ensure that that kind of approach continues. So they've effectively put in place this notion of "Don't Be Evil".” ThinkingWayWantKindHas BeensRunningAbleGuyEvilTermBusinessCompanyCoupleDegreesApproachIdealsProgramNotionVery GoodEmployeeFoundersGoogleGood WorkWorkplace Author:Joel Bakan
“Now, I don't mean to say that being wrong is the same thing as being creative. What we do know is, if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original. If you're not prepared to be wrong. And by the time they get to be adults, most kids have lost that capacity. They have become frightened of being wrong. And we run our companies like this, by the way, we stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make.” IfsKnowsWayMeanRunningKidsLostBusinessMistakeCompanyCreativeWorstAdultsCapacityOriginalsPreparedCome UpFrightenedWorst ThingsBe CreativeEducation SystemBeing Wrong Author:Ken Robinson
“Growth isn't central at all, because I'm trying to run this company as if it's going to be here a hundred years from now. And if you take where we are today and add 15% growth, like public companies need to have for their stock to stay up in value, I'd be a multi-trillion-dollar company in 40 years. Which is impossible, of course.” IfsNeedsTryingYearsRunningTodayValuesCoursesGrowthBusinessCompanyImpossibleHundredDollarsAdd Author:Yvon Chouinard
“But I'm really trying to run this company like it is going to be here a hundred years from now. That's what's important.” TryingYearsImportantRunningBusinessCompanyHundredWhat's Important Author:Yvon Chouinard
“I've been a professional athlete, I've directed films, I've run a company with 150 employees, and nothing compares to writing a screenplay. Just the second I think I know what I'm doing, the rug gets pulled out and I have no idea what I'm doing. Because there are so many problems to solve.” ThinkingKnowsWritingIdeasProblemRunningFilmCompanyAthleteSolveNo IdeaCompareEmployeeScreenplaysProfessional Athlete Author:Stacy Peralta
“Most of my company is run by women. There's a certain sensitivity to what I want to express, so that's what I want around me.” WantRunningCertainCompanySensitivity Author:Pharrell Williams
“I'm not sure I was a typical head of a company. Most people that run big companies come out of sales and they come out of marketing and they're quite serious and they have MBA's from very good schools and things like that. I'm an accidental CEO, thank the Disney Company.” PeopleBigsRunningSchoolCompanySeriousVery GoodMarketingNot SureTypicalCeoBig CompaniesGood SchoolDisney CompanyMba Author:Michael Eisner
“I'm not running a Fortune 500 company here. I'm not a bank controller. I run a gym. You have to expect a certain amount of sex. We're dealing with bodies, and trainers are very into being beautiful, so you're going to have people who are attracted to each other.” PeopleBodyRunningBeautifulCertainSexCompanyAmountFortuneGymTrainersBeing BeautifulControllers Author:Jackie Warner
“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
“Build a company that idiots could run because eventually they will.” RunningCompanyIdiot Author:Keith Rabois
“The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance or stupidity [or racism or poverty! - Draffan] steals in a way that is not customary. He snatches a loaf from the baker's counter and is promptly run into gaol. Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters; and, as likely as not, he is run into Parliament.” KnowsMenWaySoulRunningCompanyPovertyIgnoranceRacismFellowsTablesPrisonStupidityStealingBreadThievesParliamentAnother ManWidowsOrphanBakersPromotersWidows And Orphans Author:George Bernard Shaw
“Intrapreneurs work and lead with the Producer mindset. They run their department, team, or company with an abundance mentality, an attachment to true principles, and a fearless and informed faith in people and quality.” PeopleRunningQualityCompanyPrinciplesTeamMindsetProducersFearlessAbundanceDepartmentAttachmentMentalityAbundance Mentality Author:Oliver DeMille
“I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.” KnowsTryingDifferentPlayRunningCompanyNew YorkDirectTheaterDifferent ThingsEclectic Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman
“A very high fraction of America's economic problems come not from our difficulties with education or globalization or competition with the Chinese or whatever. But they come from the fact that a small number of wealthy and powerful people who run dangerous and/or inefficient companies are able, through the use of money in the political process, to prevent the government from regulating them properly.” PeopleFactsUseProblemGovernmentRunningAbleAmericaPoliticalProcessPowerfulNumbersCompanyEconomicDangerousDifficultyCompetitionChineseWealthyGlobalizationFractionsSmall NumbersEconomic Problems Author:Charles Ferguson
“As a first time director it's interesting, but not all that different from what I did before. A lot of parts of this job seem to be very similar to running a big company.” FirstsDifferentBigsSeemsRunningJobsInterestingCompanyDirectorsFirst TimeBig Companies Author:Timothy Miller
“I start with peoples growth, my own growth included. I dont start with the companys strategy or products. I start with peoples growth because I believe that if the people who are running and participating in a company grow, then the companys growth will in many respects take care of itself.” PeopleIfsBelieveCareRunningI BelieveGrowsGrowthMy OwnCompanyProductsStrategyTake CareParticipating Author:James McNerney
“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
“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
“I have certain beliefs about how people should treat employees and how companies should be run, but I was really surprised though this process to learn that those beliefs are actually good business.” PeopleShouldRunningCertainBeliefProcessCompanyTreatsEmployeeGood Business Author:Adam McKay
“The 2 hardest things you'll have to do when running a company are recruiting and talking people out of leaving.” PeopleRunningCompanyTalkingLeavingHardestHardest Thing Author:Marc Andreessen
“If companies don't know that they can run out of money, they won't be thinking of ways not to run out of money.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayRunningCompany Author:Bill Gross
“I'm a highly, highly, highly creative human being. I write music all the time. I write scripts constantly. I run my own production company. I'm also a very determined businesswoman. I've a town to deal with. I've got a lot of things to do and I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.” WritingHumansCareRunningDifficultMy OwnHuman BeingsDealsCompanyCreativeTownsScriptsProductionsDeterminedThings To Do Author:Kim Basinger