“One of the marked characteristics of the U.K. security industry as compared with defence is the lack of company scale. This can put our firms at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to big contracts.” BigsCompanySecurityIndustryScalesFirmCharacteristicsContractsDefenceDisadvantages Author:Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones
“From coast to coast, the FBI and Securities and Exchange Commission have ensnared people not only at hedge funds, but at technology and pharmaceutical companies, consulting and law firms, government agencies, and even a major stock exchange.” PeopleGovernmentLawCompanyTechnologySecurityMajorsFirmAgencyFundCoastFbiConsultingPharmaceuticalStock ExchangeHedge FundGovernment AgenciesLaw FirmsPharmaceutical Companies Author:Preet Bharara
“The country that owns green, that dominates that industry, is going to have the most energy security, national security, economic security, competitive companies, healthy population and, most of all, global respect.” CountryEnergyCompanyEconomicSecurityIndustryHealthyGreenPopulationNational SecurityEconomic SecurityEnergy Security Author:Thomas Friedman
“In a democracy it is ultimately for us, the citizens, to judge where to place the balance between security and privacy, safety and liberty. It's our lives and liberties that are threatened, not only by terrorism but also by massive depredations of our privacy in the name of counter-terrorism. If those companies from which governments actually take most of our intimate details want to show that they are still on the side of the angels, they had better join this struggle for transparency too.” IfsWantStillsShowsGovernmentNamesSidesCompanyLibertyStruggleDemocracyOur LivesSecurityJudgingBalanceCitizensAngelSafetyDetailsTerrorismIntimatePrivacyMassiveThreatenedTransparencyCounter Terrorism Author:Timothy Garton Ash
“The whole time I was a union leader, we had to put up with John Howard and Tony Abbott attacking workers' conditions. I'm proud of being a moderate trade union official, working co-operatively between employees and employers. I'm interested in better wages for workers, better safety, job security, and, profitable companies, because I understand that if you get co-operation in the workplace, everyone wins.” IfsWholeJobsWinningCompanyLeaderConditionsSecurityProudSafetyTradeUnionsWorkersOperationsOfficialsEmployeeWorkplaceWagesModeratesEmployersAttackingProfitableTrade UnionsEmployees And Employers Author:Bill Shorten
“You don't need to buy a $7 billion company to penetrate maritime security. The Mafia doesn't buy FedEx to smuggle.” NeedsCompanySecurityBillionsPenetrateMafiaMaritime Author:James Carafano
“When the mass of families in a State are without property, then those who were once citizens become virtually slaves. The more the State steps in to enforce conditions of security and sufficiency; the more it regulates wages, provides compulsory insurance, doctoring, education, and in general takes over the lives of the wage-earners, for the benefit of the companies and men employing the wage-earners, the more is this condition of semi-slavery accentuated.” MenStatesWisdomPoliticsCompanyStepsEconomyConditionsSecurityCitizensBenefitsMassSlaveryPropertySlaveLiberalismWagesSufficiencyCompulsoryEmployingDoctoring Author:Hilaire Belloc
“I've had a terrific life, from building one company to be the second largest company in the securities industry and merging that into American Express, and becoming president of that company.” PresidentCompanyEconomySecurityBuildingIndustryBecomingTerrificMergingAmerican ExpressBecoming President Author:Sanford I. Weill
“American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?” IfsMadeWould BeRunningTodayInterestCompanySecurityExampleCrisisFinancialCeoLoanPercentagesMortgageAlignmentFinancial CrisisStanleyAmerican BusinessCitibank Author:Aubrey McClendon
“As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise - security, quality and worms.” KindProblemMovingDifficultQualityCompanySecurityAriseAll KindsManageWormsComputingServer Author:Ben Horowitz
“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
“In order to keep up with the criminals and to protect our national security, the solution is clear: we need legislation to ensure that telephone companies and other carriers provide law enforcement with access to this new technology.” NeedsLawOrderCompanyTechnologyClearSecurityInternetProtectSolutionsCriminalsAccessFree SpeechLegislationNational SecurityLaw EnforcementEnforcementTelephonesNew TechnologyCarrier Author:Louis J. Freeh
“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
“They can bring the technology in, then you can sell to the enterprise when they want to have better control, better security... you still have the same biz model as a traditional enterprise sw company, but the way to get into the company is through the end user.” WayWantStillsEndsCompanyTechnologySecurityBuildingModelsSellsTraditionalEnterpriseUsers Author:Aaron Levie
“MAN is a social animal, gregarious by nature, and finds his greatest sense of security and satisfaction in the company of others who share his interests and attitudes. Of all the many groups into which humans have collected themselves, of all the many tribes, clans, organizations, and societies throughout history, none has been so powerful, so far-reaching, or more universal than the church.” MenHumansHas BeensSocialInterestChurchAnimalPowerfulAttitudeCompanyGroupsShareSecurityHe ManOrganizationUniversalSatisfactionReachingTribesClansGregarious Book:Peace with God: The Secret of Happiness Source: Peace with God: The Secret of Happiness
“Since we can no longer rely on the company for security, it must come from within. For people who know who they are and what they're called to do, it will be a world of great opportunity. For those who continue to define themselves in terms of the expectations and opinions of others, it will be a world of pain and frustration.” PeopleKnowsWorldPainOpportunityTermCompanyOpinionSecurityExpectationsRelyFrustrationGreat Opportunity Book:Personal Best: 1001 Great Ideas for Achieving Success in Your Career Source: Personal Best: 1001 Great Ideas for Achieving Success in Your Career
“Most people don't realize that two-thirds of the federal budget is Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Pentagon. The U.S. government is an insurance company with an Army.” PeopleTwoGovernmentSocialRealizingCompanySecurityThirdsArmyBudgetsSocial SecurityMedicarePentagonInsurance CompaniesMedicaid Author:Scott Pelley