“Society has to be structured such that there are checks and balances, so that it can't be manipulated, for instance, for the profit of just some multinational company who's going to get rich on trying to legislate the environment.” TryingCompanyRichEnvironmentBalanceProfitChecksInstanceGet RichMultinationals Author:Greg Graffin
“It's unreasonable to expect medical doctors and pharmaceutical companies to tell you how to avoid their services by trying the alternatives.” TryingCompanyDoctorsMedicalAlternativesUnreasonablePharmaceuticalPharmaceutical CompaniesMedical Doctor Book:Doctor Yourself: Natural Healing That Works: Easyread Edition Source: Doctor Yourself: Natural Healing That Works: Easyread Edition
“Governments can can send inspectors to companies. Governments can put legal requirements in place to disclose information that consumers and workers and other interested people need. Non-governmental organizations don't have that legal power and to me, that's what imposes substantial limitiations on how far we can go with trying to keep corporations accountable though non-governmental measures.” PeopleNeedsTryingGovernmentBusinessCompanyInformationOrganizationWorkersConsumersCorporationsRequirementsInspectors Author:Joel Bakan
“Growth isn't central at all, because I'm trying to run this company as if it's going to be here a hundred years from now. And if you take where we are today and add 15% growth, like public companies need to have for their stock to stay up in value, I'd be a multi-trillion-dollar company in 40 years. Which is impossible, of course.” IfsNeedsTryingYearsRunningTodayValuesCoursesGrowthBusinessCompanyImpossibleHundredDollarsAdd Author:Yvon Chouinard
“But I'm really trying to run this company like it is going to be here a hundred years from now. That's what's important.” TryingYearsImportantRunningBusinessCompanyHundredWhat's Important Author:Yvon Chouinard
“What they don't realize is that I'm not in the business to make clothes. I'm not in the business to make more money for myself, for Christ's sake. This is the reason Patagonia exists - to put into action the recommendations I read about in books to avoid environmental collapse. That's the reason I'm in business - to try to clean up our own act, and try to influence other companies to do the right thing, and try to influence our customers to do the right thing. So we're not going to change.” TryingBookReasonActionChristRealizingBusinessCompanyInfluenceClothesCleanEnvironmentalSakeCustomersRight ThingCollapseMore MoneyRecommendationsPatagonia Author:Yvon Chouinard
“One of the things that really gets me excited and makes me start up companies is the fact that you can basically build something new, try to introduce a change in a way that people are used to doing certain activities, and basically create something out of scratch that doesn't exist and would revolutionize whatever it is that you are trying to do with it. So that's part of the reason I love being able to be a technologist.” PeopleWayTryingReasonFactsAbleUsedCertainLove IsCompanyActivityExcitedSomething NewIntroducingScratches Author:Anousheh Ansari
“While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.” NeedsFeelsTryingCompanyStageMy TimeMakersInvestorsCapitalistVentureConferencesVenture CapitalistsConference Calls Author:Brad Feld
“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.” ThinkingWayShouldTryingBigsBusinessCompanyStreetsWallTaxesDollarsWelfareHeatElsewhereApartmentBig BusinessQuestionableStovesTax DollarsWelfare Recipients Author:Michael Moore
“I would gladly say 'Heil Hitler!' and at once part company with him, realizing what a pitiable insult it is to such a great man to try to flatter him with such an imitation which he has always disdained. His way is for Germany, ours is for Britain; let us tread our paths with mutual respect, which is rarely increased by borrowing.” MenWayTryingRealizingCompanyPathGermanyBritainInsultGreat MenMutualImitationBorrowingMutual Respect Author:William Joyce
“I think the consumption of music is at an all-time high. But I think the ways that record companies are trying to monetize it is just all over the place. At the end of the day, music is in the clouds. Before, you could hold it, look at it, turn it around. Now, it's just in the air.” ThinkingWayTryingLooksEndsTurnsCompanyRecordsAirMusic IsCloudsAll TimeThe End Of The DayConsumptionRecord Companies Author:Jay-Z
“When companies get bigger they try to replicate their success. But they assume their magic came from process. They try to use processes to substitute content.” TryingUseProcessCompanyMagicBiggerAssumingSubstitutesReplicate Author:Steve Jobs
“So when this opportunity came up through Elisabeth Murdoch and her company Shine, to be an executive producer and actually be part of the show, I liked the idea because I like the word mentor. I don't want to judge someone. I like sharing my knowledge with my girls, and anything they ask me I'll try to do to help them. Any of my real friends who know me, know that's how I really am.” KnowsWantTryingIdeasRealHelpingShowsGirlAsksOpportunityCompanyJudgingShiningProducersAsk MeExecutivesMentorKnow MeReal FriendsMy Girl Author:Naomi Campbell
“I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.” KnowsTryingDifferentPlayRunningCompanyNew YorkDirectTheaterDifferent ThingsEclectic Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman
“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.” IfsShouldTryingCompanySellsProtectionSellingAshamedSoftwareVirusesRimsCharlatansAndroidsIos Author:Chris DiBona
“I try getting in front of as many opportunities as possible, but in the late '90s, I had no idea that I'd end up being CFO of a technology company. I'd no idea what venture capital was.” TryingIdeasEndsOpportunityCompanyTechnologyFrontsLateNo IdeaVentureVenture CapitalCfo Author:Roelof Botha
“We start from the presumption that our people are talented and want to contribute. We accept that, without meaning to, our company is stifling that talent in myriad unseen ways. Finally, we try to identify those impediments and fix them.” PeopleWayWantTryingCompanyAcceptingTalentUnseenPresumptionImpedimentsStifling Author:Edwin Catmull
“I'm speaking to you from Silicon Valley, where some of the most prominent and successful companies have built their businesses by lulling their customers into complacency about their personal information. They're gobbling up everything they can learn about you and trying to monetize it. We think that's wrong. And it's not the kind of company that Apple wants to be.” ThinkingWantTryingKindCompanySuccessfulInformationBuiltCustomersApplesValleysComplacencyProminentSiliconSilicon ValleySuccessful CompanyPersonal Information Author:Tim Cook
“If Max [Aitken] gets to Heaven he won't last long. He will be chucked out for trying to pull off a merger between Heaven and Hell ... after having secured a controlling interest in key subsidiary companies in both places, of course.” IfsTryingLongLastsCoursesHeavenInterestCompanyHellKeysMaxHeaven And HellSecuredMergers Author:H. G. Wells