“I've always said I'm not the kind of designer who likes to lock himself away in a studio and let the rest of the company deal with it. I work very closely with everyone on the team.” KindSaidDealsCompanyTeamStudiosLikesDesignerLocks Author:Alexander Wang
“Never work for a company that says people are its most important asset. If you wanted to get a mortgage and you said that your only asset was people you would end up living in a tent.” PeopleIfsSaidImportantEndsWantedCompanyAssetsMortgageTents Author:Guy Browning
“Early in my career when we went to golf tournaments and charity dinners I noticed businessmen and executives would give the players their cards. Well, they're giving you their cards for a reason. I said to my wife, 'All the guys get these cards and then when they get to the parking lot they rip them up or throw them away. It's really weird.' My wife .. said maybe you should just sign a picture and mail it to them. You know, 'Great playing golf with you,' or whatever. So, I did and lo and behold some of those guys I sent pictures to way back then are now CEOs at big companies.” KnowsWayGivingShouldWellsSaidReasonBigsGuyCompanyCareersWifePlayerGolfCharityDinnerMy WifeCardsExecutivesMailCeoBusinessmanRipTournamentsParkingPlaying GolfReally WeirdParking LotBig CompaniesGolf Tournaments Author:Tie Domi
“People look at me in many ways. They've said, 'The guy has no regard for money.' That is not true. I have had regard for money. It depends on who's saying that. Some people worship money as something you've got to have piled up in a big pile somewhere. I've only thought about money in one way, and that is to do something with it. I don't think there's a thing I own that I will ever get the benefit of except through doing things with it. I don't even want the dividends from the stock in the studio, because the government's going to take it away. I'd rather have that in (the company) working.” PeopleThinkingWayWantLooksSaidBigsGovernmentGuyCompanyDependsBenefitsWorshipRegardStudiosOne WayLook At MeDividends Author:Walt Disney
“I enjoyed learning the poems, but I didn't understand of what use they might possibly be. ‘They'll keep you company on the day you have no books to read,' my teacher said.” SaidBookUseMightCompanyTeacherEnjoyed Author:Alberto Manguel
“The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master. . . . The politicians said we suffered from overproduction. Overproduction, when 10,000 little children, so statistics tell us, starve to death every year in the United States. . . . We will stand by our homes and stay by our fireside by force if necessary, and we will not pay our debts to the loan-shark companies until the government pays its debts to us.” PeopleIfsYearsChildrenLittlesSaidCountryStatesHomeGovernmentForceUnitedCommonPayCompanyUnited StatesMastersPoliticianSlaveDebtStatisticsLoanMonopolySharks Author:Mary Elizabeth Lease
“I was always told that I was too strange or that I was too cheesy by different groups of people, like the record companies said I was way too weird and the indie people wouldn't even let me in their band.” PeopleWaySaidDifferentCompanyRecordsGroupsStrangeBandLet MeCheesyRecord Companies Author:Mika
“56,000 companies have already benefited from the schemes that we have brought in. If we have taken the advice of the Conservative Party, no money would have been used. As Barack Obama said only yesterday, doing nothing is not an option.” IfsHas BeensSaidUsedPartyCompanyTakenAdviceConservativeYesterdayBarackSchemesDoing NothingNo MoneyConservative Party Author:Gordon Brown
“Someone in the society has to deal with the reality that there are finite resources and we're making trade-offs, and be explicit about that. When the car companies were found to have a memo that actually said, "This safety feature costs X and saved Y lives," the very existence of that memo was considered damning. Or when you made it reimbursable for a doctor to ask, "Do you want heroic care at the end-of-life," that was a death panel. No, it wasn't a death panel! It was asking somebody to make a decision.” WantMadeSaidEndsRealityCareAsksFoundDecisionDealsExistenceCompanyCarCostResourcesDoctorsAskingSafetyTradeSavedMade ItFeaturesHeroicFiniteEnd Of LifeExplicitTrade OffsMemos Author:Bill Gates
“I always knew I wanted to be a performer, and my mother started taking me to dance classes when I was five. My mother is a teacher, my father works at an insurance company. When I said I wanted to be a performer, people went, "Yeah, right." You don't do that where I come from.” PeopleSaidWantedMotherFatherCompanyClassFiveTeacherYeahPerformersInsurance CompaniesDance Class Author:Jennifer Lopez
“The way music reflects real life, the way that painstakingly, over the years, what I have said is really a metaphor for what's happening to America. It used to be about, or tried to be at the very beginning, about what was right. It has stopped being what was right for America; it started being about what was right for companies that are in control.” WayYearsSaidRealAmericaUsedCompanyHappeningsMetaphorReal LifeUsed To Be Author:Immortal Technique
“Warren Buffett's company reportedly owes the IRS a billion dollars in back taxes. When he said he wasn't paying enough taxes, he wasn't kidding.” SaidEnoughCompanyTaxesDollarsBillionsIrsBuffettWarren Buffet Author:Jay Leno
“I wanted to do the comic strip. I tried to get it syndicated, and I sent some examples to a syndication company, and they sent me a rejection letter! I wasn't smart enough at the time to realize you shouldn't let rejection letters stop you. I thought that rejection letter meant I was not allowed to be a cartoonist in this world, so I put the rejection letter down and said, well, I'll be a stand-up comedian.” WorldWellsSaidEnoughWantedRealizingCompanyExampleThis WorldSmartLettersDown AndComicComedianRejectionCartoonistComic StripsStand Up ComedianRejection Letters Author:Brian Regan
“Despite the fact that Starbucks has grown to be a large company. We've always played music in our stores and has always acted as an opportunity to create a mood in our stores. And customers started asking, "What song are you playing and can I buy that?" . And we said "No." And that was kind of the catalyst for beginning to look at music. We started out with our own compilations and after the success of that. We had the courage to say, "Let's produce our own record." and the first record was with Ray Charles before he unfortunately passed away.” FirstsLooksKindSaidFactsSongOpportunityCompanyRecordsProduceAskingCustomersStoresMoodDespiteRaysCatalystPassed AwayStarbucksCompilationLarge Companies Author:Howard Schultz
“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
“This group came on stage, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and this whirling dervish, this electrifying white soul singer was so riveting. And I'm seeing this and I said, 'My God, this is a musical revolution.'” SaidSoulBigsWhiteCompanySeeingGroupsStageBrotherRevolutionMusicalSingersWhirling Dervish Author:Clive Davis
“You will never ever, in any circumstance, win any struggle at any time. That being said, we have a long way to go. At the moment, the battle over network neutrality is not to completely eliminate the telephone and cable companies. We are not at that point yet. But the ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control.” WayLongSaidMomentsWinningGoalCompanyStruggleMediaCircumstancesBattleUltimatePhonesCapitalistTelephonesLong WayCablesUltimate GoalNeutralityLong Way To Go Author:Robert Waterman McChesney
“I called a company and asked to speak to Bob. The person who answered said, "Bob is on vacation. Would you like to hold?” PersonsSaidGodSpeakCompanyStupidityVacationBob Author:Dave Barry
“The BP president said yesterday that the company would survive. That's like someone running over your dog and saying, 'Don't worry, my car is fine.'” SaidRunningPresidentCompanyWorryDogCarFineYesterdayOver You Author:Jimmy Fallon
“I took a job at the Walt Disney Company and after 18 months decided to go to business school at Harvard. I was awestruck by the campus. My first reaction was I dont belong here. Then I said, Im here; lets get on with it.” FirstsSaidSchoolJobsCompanyMonthsDecidedReactionsHarvardCampusWaltBusiness SchoolDisney CompanyAwestruckWalt Disney Company Author:Jason Kilar
“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
“I think Pringles initial intention was to make tennis balls. But on the day that the rubber was supposed to show up, a big truckload of potatoes arrived. But Pringles is a laid back company. They said, "Screw it. Cut 'em up!"” ThinkingSaidShowsHumorBigsFunnyCompanyCuttingBallsIntentionTennisEmsThey SaidScrewsPotatoesInitialsRubberLaid BackTennis BallsPringles Author:Mitch Hedberg
“The fact that used cars is our largest category is a good example. We would not have sat in a conference room and said, "Hey, how about used cars?" So what can be learned that is extensible to other companies is to ask what are your customers doing with your products that maybe you didn't anticipate that they would do? How do you think of your customers as your research and development lab, as opposed to having an R&D lab at headquarters?” ThinkingSaidFactsUsedAsksRoomsBusinessCompanyCarExampleProductsDevelopmentResearchCustomersHeySatCategoriesConferencesAnticipateThink Of YouLabsGood ExamplesResearch And DevelopmentHeadquartersUsed Car Author:Meg Whitman
“I was having tea with a guy I was introduced to, about the possibility of working with him at his production company. He asked me if I'd written anything, and I said yes. Then he said 'why don't you just shoot it'? And I thought, "duh!" Best advice I ever got.” IfsSaidGuyCompanyWrittenAdvicePossibilityProductionsTeaBest AdviceDuh Author:Chika Anadu
“I was very inventive. I lived in my own world - my dad said I was a loner. Not lonely, just happy in my own company. It's the same now. I need time alone, which is maybe why I love to write. Having said that, I love the sociability of telly. It's a nice contrast.” WorldNeedsWritingSaidMy OwnCompanyNiceDadLonelyMy DadContrastMe AloneLonerTime Of NeedAlone TimeSociabilityMy Own WorldI Need Time Author:Alan Titchmarsh
“People from my first home say I'm brave. They tell me I'm strong. They pat me on the back and say, 'Way to go. Good job.' But the truth is, I am not really very brave; I am not really very strong; and I am not doing anything spectacular. I am simply doing what God has called me to do as a person who follows Him. He said to feed His sheep and He said to care for 'the least of these,' so that's what I'm doing, with the help of a lot people who make it possible and in the company of those who make my life worth living” PeopleWayFirstsPersonsSaidHelpingHomeCareJobsStrongCompanyTruth IsBraveVery StrongSheepGood JobSpectacularWorth LivingLife Worth LivingFirst Home Author:Katie Davis
“I don't get particularly precious about things like this, though. Like the record company said, "We need a radio edit that delivers the hook" - I don't even know what they consider the hook in that song ["Oh No"] - "that delivers the hook sooner." So I'm like, "Okay. I see that." And they were all walking on eggshells, like is this going to be sacrilegious to me or something, to mess with this art I've created? And I'm like, "Great. I get to tinker with it, I get to mess with my song some more."” KnowsNeedsArtSaidSongCompanyRecordsWalkingOkayRadioMessHookEditsRecord CompaniesSacrilegiousEggshellsWalking On Eggshells Author:Andrew Bird
“Many years ago, a large American shoe company sent two sales reps to different parts of the Australian outback. A while later, the company received a telegram from each. The first said, 'No business here - the natives don't wear shoes.' The second said, 'Great opportunity here - the natives don't wear shoes.'” YearsFirstsSaidTwoDifferentOpportunityCompanyYears AgoShoesAustralianGreat OpportunityTelegrams Author:John Capozzi
“There were a couple of companies that wanted to put me with a producer, and I said, "Well, I just produced my last album," and I wasn't about to go backwards.” WellsSaidWantedLastsCompanyCoupleAlbumsProducersBackwards Author:Shuggie Otis