“For corporations to be bedfellows with the arts is good business for both. The architecture that houses a company is a more visible statement than the president's in the annual report. Ditto interiors, particularly of offices and sometimes, dramatically, in plants. For solvent businesses, support of community cultural undertakings in music, drama, dance creates great goodwill. Also, the existence of such activities is often important to the executives and their families that companies want to keep or attract to keep.” WantArtImportantSometimesCultureHousePresidentCommunityExistenceCompanySupportDramaActivityOfficeArt IsPlantArchitectureStatementsCorporationsVisibleReportsExecutivesInteriorsGoodwillUndertakingsAnnualsGood BusinessBedfellowsAnnual Reports Author:Malcolm Forbes
“Of one thing the investor can be certain: A large company's need to bring in a new chief executive from the outside is a damning sign of something basically wrong with the existing management - no matter how good the surface signs may have been as indicated by the most recent earnings statement.” NeedsMayHas BeensMatterCertainCompanyOne ThingManagementInvestingSurfaceStatementsChiefsExecutivesInvestorsEarningChief ExecutivesLarge Companies Author:Philip Arthur Fisher
“This is an opportunity, I believe, for the Port and all of us to make a bold statement about how oil companies contribute to climate change, oil spills and other environmental disasters and reject this short-term lease.” OpportunityTermChangeCompanyClimateEnvironmentalClimate ChangeOilDisasterStatementsRejectsShort TermPortSpillsOil CompaniesLeaseOil Spill Author:Ed Murray
“The insurance companies do not refer to the key policy rate when they send their statements. We can only control that rate. Long-term interest rates are determined largely by global financial markets.” LongTermInterestCompanyPolicyKeysRateFinancialDeterminedStatementsLong TermInterest RateInsurance CompaniesFinancial Markets Author:Mario Draghi
“If we took the mission statements of 100 large industrial companies, mixed them up while everyone was asleep, and reassigned them at random, would anyone wake up tomorrow and cry, 'My gosh, where has our mission statement gone?'” IfsCompanyGoneCryTomorrowWake UpMissionsStatementsMission Statement Book:Competing for the Future Source: Competing for the Future
“Too many companies these days can't tell the difference between good profits and bad.... By now you're probably wondering how in heaven's name profit, that holy grail of the business enterprise, can ever be bad. Short of outright fraud, isn't one dollar of earnings as good as another? Certainly, accountants can't tell the difference between good and bad profits. They all look the same on an income statement. While bad profits don't show up on the books, they are easy to recognize. They're profits earned at the expense of customer relationships.” LooksBookShowsNamesHeavenEasyDifferencesCompanyWonderHolyDollarsProfitCustomersIncomeStatementsThese DaysEnterpriseExpensesFraudEarningGood And BadAccountantsHoly GrailCustomer Relationship Author:Fred Reichheld
“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.” PeopleShouldUseCompanyCriticalStatementsScareAttackingMaliciousLegal System Author:Lawrence Lessig