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“I have no use whatsoever for projections or forecasts. They create an illusion of apparent precision. The more meticulous they are, the more concerned you should be. We never look at projections, but we care very much about, and look very deeply at, track records. If a company has a lousy track record, but a very bright future, we will miss the opportunity.”

Ifs Should Looks Use Care Opportunity Company Records Missing Illusion Concerned Investing Track Projection Precision Very Deep Forecasts Track Record Bright Future Meticulous

Author:Warren Buffett

“One of the ironies of the stock market is the emphasis on activity. Brokers, using terms such as 'marketability' and 'liquidity,' sing the praises of companies with high share turnover... but investors should understand that what is good for the croupier is not good for the customer. A hyperactive stock market is the pick pocket of enterprise.”

Should Term Company Share Activity Picks Praise Investing Customers Irony Enterprise Pockets Investors Emphasis Brokers Liquidity Turnover Marketability

Author:Warren Buffett

“You are the hip-hop violinist, the creator, the visionaire, ... and therefore you should do whatever the hell you wanna do because whatever you do is right. They're not gonna have like 20 hip-hop violinists in the company. I know what to do.”

Knows Should Company Hell Hip Hop Creator Hips Hops Violinist

Author:Miri Ben-Ari

“A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.”

Should Shows Company Advantage Graves Lively Blockheads

Book:Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

Source: Characteristics: in the manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims [by W. Hazlitt].

“Undoubtedly Internet has reduced the possibilities of taxation. Why should I buy something here if I can buy it from a company in Japan or England or Brazil with a lower tax?”

Ifs Should I Can Company Possibility Internet Taxes England Japan Should I Taxation Brazil

Author:Milton Friedman

“Later, you should learn to hire fast and scale up the company, but in the early days the goal should be not to hire. Not to hire.”

Should Goal Company Team Scales

Author:Sam Altman

“I think as a rough estimate, you should aim to give about 10% of the company to the first 10 employees.”

Thinking Giving Should Firsts Company Team Aim Employee Rough

Author:Sam Altman

“You should think about for the next 10 years, you're going to be giving out 3-5% of the company every year.”

Thinking Giving Should Years Next Company

Author:Sam Altman

“At first when you start a company, everything's gonna feel like a mess and it really should. It should feel like everyday there's a new problem, and what you're doing is fundamentally triaging.”

Feels Should Firsts Problem Company Everyday Mess

Author:Keith Rabois

“Drug companies should not be allowed to reap excessive profits or spend unreasonable amounts on marketing if they want to receive support that is designed to encourage life- saving and health-improving treatments.”

Ifs Want Should Company Support Amount Drug Marketing Profit Saving Treatment Improving Reap Unreasonable Life Saving Drug Companies

Author:Hillary Clinton

“Chinese companies may well be competitive on their domestic market, but it will be another 6 to 8 years before they become serious competitors internationally. We should not be afraid of China, but should learn from them instead.”

Should Years Wells May Company Serious China Chinese Competitors

Author:Tulsi Tanti

“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.”

People Should Wells Company Watches Directors Management Affair Expected Partners Managers Over It Anxious Vigilance Negligence

Author:Adam Smith

“Twenty times, in the course of my late reading, have I been on the point of breaking out, 'this would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it!' But in this exclamation, I should have been as fanatical as Bryant or Cleverly. Without religion, this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in public company-I mean hell.”

Source: John Adams: a biography in his own words

“Preserve the core, and let the rest flux. In their wonderful bestseller Built to Last, authors James Collins and Jerry Porras make a convincing argument that long-lived companies are able to thrive 50 years or more by retaining a very small heart of unchanging values, and then stimulating progress in everything else. At times "everything" includes changing the business the company operates in, migrating, say, from mining to insurance. Outside the core of values, nothing should be exempt from flux. Nothing.”

Should Years Heart Long Able Lasts Values Business Company Progress Wonderful Built Argument Core Preserves Thrive Convincing Jerry Mining Flux Unchanging Retaining

Author:Kevin Kelly

“Profanity is filthiness. A person is known as much by his language as he is by the company he keeps...Filthiness in any form is degrading and soul-destroying and should be avoided.”

Should Persons Soul Form Language Company Known Destroying Avoided Degrading Profanity

Author:Joseph Fielding Smith

“Maybe we should be directing our anger elsewhere - like toward Wall Street. Why is it we never think of Big Business when we think of welfare recipients? Companies take more of our tax dollars, and in much more questionable ways, than do those who are trying to heat their apartments with a kerosene stove.”

Thinking Way Should Trying Bigs Business Company Streets Wall Taxes Dollars Welfare Heat Elsewhere Apartment Big Business Questionable Stoves Tax Dollars Welfare Recipients

Author:Michael Moore

“Tobacco companies are legally operating entities in Australia. If the Government thinks that they should not make donations to political parties, well then they should ban them operating as legally structured entities in Australia.”

Ifs Thinking Should Wells Government Political Party Company Australia Entity Political Parties Tobacco Bans Donation

Author:Julie Bishop

“Pay-TV companies that built their businesses on the backs of local and network broadcast signals should pay a fair price for access to that high-value programming.”

Should Values Pay Company Tvs Built Fairs Access Locals Programming Signals

Author:Gordon Smith

“That a joint stock company should be able to carry on successfully any branch of foreign trade, when private adventurers can come into any sort of open and fair competition with them, seems contrary to all experience.”

Should Seems Able Company Fairs Trade Competition Contrary Branches Joints Adventurer Foreign Trade Joint Stock Company

Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

“Digital technology has eaten classic radio as we know it. Independent stations with disc jockeys who chose their own music have all gone; it's these huge parent companies that own a hundred stations and then decide what we should hear.”

Knows Should Parent Company Technology Gone Huge Hundred Independent Radio Classic Digital Stations Discs Jockeys Digital Technology

Author:Joe Walsh

“You know you're ready to write a book when you have a feeling that you should do it, no matter what anybody says. It's like falling in love or starting a company. When you're still wondering if you should get married or you're still wondering whether you should start a company that might be not the right person or the right idea. And writing is the same way. When you've locked on to the topic, you'll just write it.”

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Author:Guy Kawasaki

“Companies should always want to delight their customers.”

Want Should Company Delight Customers

Author:Guy Kawasaki

“An MBA is a great degree for career paths like investment banking, finance, consulting, and large companies. An MBA is not necessarily the right path for starting a tech company. You should be building a prototype, not getting an MBA in that case.”

Should Company Careers Cases Path Building Degrees Investment Starting Finance Banking Right Path Consulting Career Path Prototype Mba Large Companies Investment Banking

Author:Guy Kawasaki

“I think the leadership of a company should encourage the next generation not just to follow, but to overtake. The duty of leadership is to put forward ideas, symbols, metaphors of the way it should be done, so that the next generation can work out new and better ways of doing the job. The complaint Gordon and I have is that we are not being overtaken by our staff. We would like to be able to say, "We can't keep up with you guys", but, it is not happening.”

Thinking Way Should Ideas Done Able Jobs Guy Next Company Generations Duty Happenings Metaphor Work Out Symbols Staff Complaints Next Generation Better Ways

Author:Anita Roddick

“... Our first priority should be the people who work for the companies, then the customers, then the shareholders. Because if the staff are motivated then the customers will be happy, and the shareholders will then benefit through the company's success.”

People Ifs Should Firsts Company Benefits Customers Priorities Motivated Staff Shareholders

Author:Richard Branson

“When you start a company everything is going to feel like a mess. And it really should. If you have too much process, too much predictability, you are probably not innovating fast enough and creatively enough.”

Ifs Feels Should Enough Process Company Too Much Mess Predictability

Author:Keith Rabois

“But just [proposing the standard] puts companies on notice that if you're looking to construct a new natural-gas or coal facility, you really need to pay attention to these. This is what they should be designing new facilities toward as soon as this proposal hits the streets.”

Ifs Needs Should Natural Pay Attention Company Streets Design Standards Pay Attention Gas Coal Constructs Proposal Facility Natural Gas

Author:Gina McCarthy

“Saturday mornings in spring should always start with a jolt of dance by Paul Taylor performed by Taylor 2. The touring ensemble, an adjunct of the Paul Taylor Dance Company, offered a rare New York performance... It was an impressive event, presented by a group of highly individualistic dancers.”

Should Company Morning Groups Events New York Spring Performances Dancer Saturday Impressive Touring Ensemble Individualistic Saturday Morning

Author:Jennifer Dunning

“Yes, virus companies are playing on your fears to try to sell you bs protection software for Android, RIM and IOS. They are charlatans and scammers. IF you work for a company selling virus protection for android, rim or IOS you should be ashamed of yourself.”

Ifs Should Trying Company Sells Protection Selling Ashamed Software Viruses Rims Charlatans Androids Ios

Author:Chris DiBona

“Founders should think of their company as a product and build it and shape it with the same passion and care.”

Thinking Should Care Passion Company Products Shapes Founders

Author:Roelof Botha

“Russia has to have a technology company of global meaning sooner or later. We should take the depth of technical culture we have here and make it available worldwide.”

Should Culture Company Technology Depth Available Russia Sooner Or Later

Author:Arkady Volozh

“When this crisis began, crucial decisions about what would happen to some of the world's biggest companies - companies employing tens of thousands of people and holding trillions of dollars in assets - took place in hurried discussions in the middle of the night. We should not be forced to choose between allowing a company to fall into a rapid and chaotic dissolution or forcing taxpayers to foot the bill.”

“I imagine you will always be pinched for money, for time, for a place to work. But I think you will do it. And believe me, it is not a new problem. You are in good company...Your touch is the uncommon touch; you will speak only to the thoughtful reader. And more times than once you will ask yourself whether such readers really exist at all and why you should go on projecting your words into silence like an old crazy actor playing the part of himself to an empty theater.”

Thinking Should Believe Problem Actors Asks Speak Silence Company Imagine Crazy Goes On Reader Empty Theater Thoughtful More Time Believe In Me Uncommon Good Company

Author:Wallace Stegner

“Government should have drones. Industries, companies can have drones. Everyone else doesn't need drones. It's just going to create mischief. They are going to be crashing the planes, they're going to be spying on neighbors. People don't need drones.”

People Needs Should Government Company Industry Should Have Neighbor Planes Mischief Drones

Author:Gary B Smith

“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.”

People Should Running Certain Belief Process Company Treats Employee Good Business

Author:Adam McKay

“We exist to build the business of our clients. The recommendations we make to them should be the recommendations we would make if we owned their companies, without regard to our own short-term interest. This earns their respect, which is the greatest asset we can have.”

Ifs Should Term Interest Company Regard Assets Clients Short Term Recommendations

Author:David Ogilvy

“I can help the next generation remember the lineage of great companies here and how to continue the tradition. The Valley has been very supportive of me. I should do my best to repay.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die.”

Want Should Dies Company Wanting To Die

Author:Frank Herbert

“...countries don't create economies. It is entrepreneurs and companies that create and revitalize economies. The role of the governments should be to create a nourishing environment for entrepreneurs and companies to flourish, not to get in the way of economic development.”

Way Should Country Government Company Roles Economy Environment Economic Development Entrepreneur Economic Development

Author:John Naisbitt

“Companies will often use the legal system to scare people away from attacking them. But we all should be free to make critical statements about anybody, unless those statements are malicious.”

People Should Use Company Critical Statements Scare Attacking Malicious Legal System

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“Good advertising should give the reader essential facts about the product or company advertised and should do so engagingly without trickery or hogwash.”

Giving Should Facts Company Products Reader Essentials Advertising Trickery Hogwash

Author:Leo Burnett

“As I have indicated some time ago, I intend to divest my shareholding when I leave the Club. In doing so, my overriding principle is that I shall do what I believe is best for the future of Celtic. I have also indicated my intention that my shareholding will be made available to be held broadly amongst the supporters and existing shareholders of the Club. I believe that this should produce the best structure of ownership for the Club and the Company.”

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Author:Fergus McCann

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