“In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they only do things together.” PeopleTogetherSocialCompanyTalkingSocial LifeGet TogetherEvasion Author:Louis Kronenberger
“In talking to founder after founder; I've heard almost visceral reactions to working for companies, even very cool ones with great things to work on and lots of opportunity, like Facebook, Google, or consulting firms.” OpportunityCompanyTalkingHeardReactionsGreat ThingsFirmFoundersGoogleVisceralConsultingVery CoolLike Facebook Author:Maynard Webb
“Men who have a tempestuous inner life and do not seek to give vent to it by talking or writing are simply men who have no tempestuous inner life. Give company to a lonely man and he will talk more than anyone.” MenGivingWritingCompanyTalkingLonelyInner LifeLonely Man Book:This Business of Living Source: This Business of Living
“I learned a lot of things about literature talking to people at the publishing company. Did you know that about 90 percent of celebrity autobiographies are ghostwritten?” PeopleKnowsLiteratureCompanyTalkingPercentPublishingAutobiographyDid You Know Author:John Cleese
“I don't think I was talking specifically about Steve Jobs. It was just a general philosophy about one person grows up and he's kind of managing companies and every day he's working making sure this is in place and that's in place.” ThinkingKindPersonsPhilosophyJobsGrowsCompanyTalkingGrowing Up Author:Steve Wozniak
“It was in Warwick Castle that I came across the curious stranger whom I am going to talk about. He attracted me by three things: his candid simplicity, his marvelous familiarity with ancient armor, and the restfulness of his company--for he did all the talking.” BookThreeCompanyTalkingSimplicityAncientStrangerCuriousMarvelousCastlesThree ThingsFamiliarityArmorCandid Book:10 Books in 1 Source: 10 Books in 1
“Resolution Trust Company was set up to liquidate a bunch of assets that the government had inherited because the savings and loans went broke. So the savings and loans went broke, the government stepped in, paid off depositors, and now they're left with this mass of assets to sell. We're not talking about selling here, we're talking about buying intelligently. They were selling what they got handed to them by a bunch of savings and loan operators that had in many cases had done some very dumb thing. But their job was to liquidate it. And they liquidated.” DoneGovernmentJobsLeftCompanyTalkingCasesMassPaidSellsBunchSellingSavingBrokeDumbBuyingResolutionAssetsLoanSavingsNot TalkingOperatorsPaid OffDumb Things Author:Howard Warren Buffett
“There is yet another kind of matrimonial dialect (which naturally succeeds this of talking at each other), which may very properlybe styled The Language Contradictory.... In the former, however plain the object of satire may be exhibited to the whole company, yet there always remains some little covering.... But in this last method, the defiance becomes more open and the impetuosity with which these contradictions are uttered (although the subjects of them are often of the most indifferent nature) evidently prove that they arise from passion.” KindMayLittlesWholeLastsPassionLanguageCompanyTalkingMarriageSubjectsObjectsSucceedProveMethodRemainsAriseFormerContradictionSatireIntoleranceIndifferentContradictoryCoveringDefianceDialect Author:Sarah Fielding
“Talk often, but never long; in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers. Pay your own reckoning, but do not treat the whole company; this being one of the few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay.” PeopleIfsLongWholeCarePayCompanyTalkingCasesPleaseTreatsConvincedTreatedTireReckoning Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“The business model piece is we're always talking about competing more effectively. If you're starting a company or career you don't want to compete. You want to create a monopoly. We want to invest in a company that has a good plan to create a monopoly.” IfsWantCompanyTalkingCareersPiecesPlansModelsInvestingStartingCompetingMonopolyBusiness Models Author:Peter Thiel
“They who are great talkers in company have never been any talkers by themselves, nor used to private discussions of our home regimen.” HomeUsedCompanyTalkingDiscussionTalkers Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
“My company is called Talking Monkey, Inc. It's because that's what I think all people are: talking monkeys.” PeopleThinkingCompanyTalkingMonkeys Author:Joe Rogan
“The most important thing you can learn as CEO- one of the hardest things to do is, you have to discipline yourself to see your company... through the eyes of the people that you're working through. Through the eyes of the employees, through the eyes of your partners... through the eyes of the people who you're not talking to and who are not in the room.” PeopleImportantEyeRoomsCompanyTalkingDisciplineManagementImportant ThingsPartnersHardestThings To DoEmployeeCeoHardest ThingNot TalkingThrough The EyesHardest Thing To Do Author:Ben Horowitz
“...one of the most inventive forms of creative capitalism involves someone we all know very well. A few years ago, I was sitting in a bar here in Davos with Bono. Late at night, after a few drinks, he was on fire, talking about how we could get a percentage of each purchase from civic-minded companies to help change the world. He kept calling people, waking them up, and handing me the phone to show me the interest.” PeopleKnowsWorldYearsWellsHelpingShowsFormNightInterestBusinessCompanyTalkingCreativeFireDrinkCallingLateSittingCapitalismYears AgoPhonesBarsChanging The WorldWakingShow MePercentagesCivicsDavosCivic Minded Author:Bill Gates
“One of the biggest challenges in the past for me in working on the networks was that audiences have grown accustomed to television being something that keeps you company-background music, something that you have on while you're flipping through a magazine, cooking dinner, talking on the phone, putting the kids to bed.” KidsPastChallengesCompanyTalkingAudienceTelevisionBedCookingPhonesDinnerBackgroundsMagazinesAccustomedBackground MusicTalking On The PhoneCooking Dinner Author:Aaron Sorkin
“The 2 hardest things you'll have to do when running a company are recruiting and talking people out of leaving.” PeopleRunningCompanyTalkingLeavingHardestHardest Thing Author:Marc Andreessen