“The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world. We clump into families, associations, and companies.” WorldGoalExistenceCompanySupportUltimateAssociationUltimate Goal Author:Tim Berners-Lee
“Northleaf is delighted to have been chosen to manage the new fund. We look forward to implementing the fund's long-term strategy of constructing a portfolio of high-potential venture capital funds with the scale and resources to execute their plans, support successful high-growth companies and deliver world-class returns.” WorldLooksLongHas BeensGrowthTermCompanyClassSupportSuccessfulPlansReturnResourcesStrategyScalesChosenManageLong TermFundVentureDelightedPortfoliosWorld ClassVenture CapitalImplementing Author:Jeff Pentland
“Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it generally fails; it is a sort of insult on the company, and a restraint upon the speaker.” DoneCharacterCompanySupportFailingConversationWitInsultSpeakersPerpetualRestraint Author:Jonathan Swift
“It is really sad for the new artists. Where's the next Elvis, where's the next Beatles, where's the Zeppelin? They're out there but they don't have a chance because once upon a time we [musicians of the 60s] had record companies, and they would support you and have point of purchase material and they would give you advances. In other words, they gave you the air to breathe to find yourself and spend the time to learn how to run.” GivingRunningArtistNextChanceCompanySupportRecordsAirMaterialsMusicianBreatheFinding YourselfOnce Upon A TimeRecord CompaniesSupport YouZeppelinsReally SadNew Artists Author:Gene Simmons
“If an open source product gets good enough, we'll simply take it. So the great thing about open source is nobody owns it - a company like Oracle is free to take it for nothing, include it in our products and charge for support, and that's what we'll do. So it is not disruptive at all - you have to find places to add value. Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane. We don't have to fight open source, we have to exploit open source.” IfsEnoughWould BeValuesFightingCompanySupportProductsSourceAddGreat ThingsInsaneGood EnoughCompetingExploitsDisruptiveOraclesOpen Source Author:Larry Ellison
“if networks of women are formed, they should be job related and task related rather than female-concerns related. Personal networks for sociability in the context of a work organization would tend to promote the image of women contained in the temperamental model - that companies must compensate for women's deficiencies and bring them together for support because they could not make it on their own. But job-related task forces serve the social-psychological functions while reinforcing a more positive image of women.” IfsShouldTogetherJobsForceSocialCompanySupportModelsConcernFemaleTasksOrganizationFunctionPsychologicalRelatedDeficiencySociabilityTask ForcesPositive Image Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter
“There are a lot of people, especially the younger generation who don't feel that they need to support the artists by buying their music because they grew up learning that record companies are evil.” PeopleNeedsFeelsArtistEvilCompanySupportRecordsGenerationsGrewGrew UpMusic IsBuyingRecord CompaniesYounger Generation Author:Bob Mould
“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
“Truth be told, there are lots of companies that provide exemplary phone support. DirecTV, Virgin America and Apple are a few that regularly exceed my expectations.” AmericaCompanySupportTruth IsExpectationsPhonesApplesVirginsExceedExemplaryTruth Be Told Author:Gary Hamel
“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.” IfsWantShouldCompanySupportAmountDrugMarketingProfitSavingTreatmentImprovingReapUnreasonableLife SavingDrug Companies Author:Hillary Clinton
“The Chinese government does not engage in theft of commercial secrets in any form, nor does it encourage or support Chinese companies to engage in such practices in any way.” WayDoeGovernmentFormSecretCompanyPracticeSupportChineseTheftChinese Government Author:Xi Jinping
“During the last five years, those four advantages-costs, products, people, goodwill-have been the salvation of Interface during a recession that saw our primary marketplace shrink by 38% from peak to trough-38%! As a heavily leveraged company with over $400 million in debt, we might not have made it without the sustainability initiative and, especially, the support of our customers. This revised definition of success-this new paradigm-has a name: "Doing well by doing good". It is a better way to bigger profits.” PeopleWayYearsWellsHas BeensMadeMightLastsNamesBusinessCompanyMillionsSupportFiveSawsFourProductsCostAdvantageBiggerSalvationDefinitionsProfitDebtCustomersMade ItPrimariesFive YearsSustainabilityInitiativeShrinksMarketplaceParadigmDoing GoodBetter WaysGoodwillRecessionsInterfacesDefinition Of SuccessLast Five YearsTrough Author:Ray Anderson
“Government support is not only investing in upstream areas like basic research, but also in downstream areas like applied research and early-stage financing for the companies themselves. This means there are great risks.” MeanGovernmentCompanySupportRiskStageResearchAreasInvestingFinancingGreat RiskBasic Research Author:Mariana Mazzucato
“Most of the female-directed films, if they got distribution, would have fewer dollars to support the film and play in fewer theaters than the men. Because the female-directed films go to smaller companies. So the gap starts widening.” IfsMenPlayFilmCompanySupportHe ManFemaleTheaterDollarsGapsFewerDistribution Author:Catherine Hardwicke
“The lobbying over China most favored nation trading status was disgusting. There's no way in hell that MFN would have passed in '95, '96, '97, '98, '99, 2000 if all these companies hadn't come in flooding and making campaign contributions and ask for people's support. That drove the debate. Every year was the allure of corporate dollars flooding into members' bank accounts.” PeopleIfsWayYearsAsksNationsCompanySupportHellMembersAccountsDollarsChinaCampaignsDebateCorporateContributionDisgustingTradingBank AccountsFloodingAllureLobbyingCampaign Contributions Author:Mark Shields
“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.” PeopleWorldShouldHappensNightFallDecisionCompanySupportMiddleCrisisDollarsMeetingsAllowingAssetsCrucialEmergenciesRapidsTaxpayersChaoticMiddle Of The NightDissolutionEmploying Author:Barack Obama
“Competitiveness is defined as the ability of companies to compete while maintaining or improving the average standard of living. If you are cutting wages to become more competitive, that's not really more competitive. It's raising the skill and the efficiency of those workers so that they can support and sustain that higher wage.” IfsAbilityCompanySupportCuttingHigherSkillsStandardsWorkersAverageDefinedEfficiencyImprovingWagesMaintainingStandards Of LivingCompetitiveness Author:Michael Porter