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“As the web becomes more and more of a part of our every day lives, it would be a horrible tragedy if it was locked up inside of companies and proprietary software.”

Ifs Would Be Company Tragedy Horrible Software Locked Locked Up Day Life

Author:Matt Mullenweg

“If we could muster the same determination and sense of responsibility that saves a country like Japan - or a company like Xerox - then investing to save women and children who are dying in the developing world would be very good business.”

Ifs World Children Country Would Be Responsibility Company Dying Determination Investing Very Good Developing Japan Good Business Muster Sense Of Responsibility Xerox

Author:Anne M. Mulcahy

“It would be nice to make a movie that other people want to make, because every one of these movies, I basically have to find the only company in the world that's willing to make it, and it's always a big challenge. I end up spending a tremendous amount of energy and time trying to get money to make these movies and it's exhausting.”

People World Want Trying Ends Bigs Would Be Energy Challenges Company Nice Willing Amount Spending Being Nice Exhausting Get Money Big Challenges

Author:Darren Aronofsky

“I remember when being a 'a company man' was a badge of honor; today in Silicon Valley it may brand you a loser or, in the best case scenario, someone afraid to take risks. Ten years ago, if you saw a resume that had multiple jobs in ten years, you would be worried about the capability of the individual. Not so now.”

“Animals on factory farms and slaughter houses are mutilated, drugged and abused in ways that would be illegal if dogs or cats were treated similarly. The problem is that farm animals are exempted from the Animal Welfare Act. Therefore, companies often act with impunity.”

Ifs Way Problem Would Be House Animal Company Dog Cat Treated Welfare Illegal Farms Factories Slaughter Animal Welfare Impunity

Author:Bruce Friedrich

“If I could get one message to you it would be this: the future of this country and the welfare of the free world depends upon our success in space. There is no room in this country for any but a fully cooperative, urgently motivated all-out effort toward space leadership. No one person, no one company, no one government agency, has a monopoly on the competence, the missions, or the requirements for the space program.”

“Ideas are somewhat like babies - they are born small, immature, and shapeless. They are promise rather than fulfillment. In the innovative company executives do not say, "This is a damn-fool idea." Instead they ask, "What would be needed to make this embryonic, half-baked, foolish idea into something that makes sense, that is an opportunity for us?"”

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Author:Peter Drucker

“There are advantages to being the chairman. One of my favorite perks was picking out an issue and doing what I called a "deep dive." It's spotting a challenge where you think you can make a difference - one that looks like it would be fun - and then throwing the weight of your position behind it. Some might justifiably call it "meddling." I've often done this just about everywhere in the company.”

“Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.”

Firsts Would Be Together Lasts Sin Company Shame

Book:The Works of Anne Bradstreet

Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet

“Well, you have to understand where we came from. We are not here because we decided 10 years ago that we were going to be x-size company, and, oh, yeah, Jackson would be a good headquarters. We work here in Mississippi because we started here, and we are certainly happy here. Those of us working out of Jackson intend to continue working out of Jackson.”

Years Wells Would Be Company Economy Years Ago Decided Yeah Size Work Out Mississippi Headquarters Where We Came

Author:Bernard Ebbers

“What we learned several years ago was that one of our weaknesses would be if we didn't develop enough people with the know-how to run our company, it would come to the point where we would just stop.”

People Ifs Knows Years Enough Would Be Running Company Know How Economy Weakness Years Ago

Author:Kevin B. Rollins

“I had always suspected that trying to play golf in the company of big-time pros and a gallery would be something like walking naked into choir practice.”

Trying Play Bigs Would Be Company Practice Walking Golf Naked Gallery Choir

Book:DOGGED VICTIMS OF INEXORABLE FATE

Source: DOGGED VICTIMS OF INEXORABLE FATE

“One would think that the larger the company is in which we are engaged, the greater variety of thoughts and subjects would be started into discourse; but, instead of this we find that conversation is never so much straightened and confined, as in numerous assemblies.”

Thinking Would Be Company Greater Subjects Conversation Variety Engaged Discourse Confined Assembly

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)

“Every now and again it would be considered wholesome for me to be more with people of my own age. Demotion to such company was a sapless exile. Their inanity was insufferable.”

People Would Be Age My Own Company Exile Insufferable Demotion

Book:Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years

Source: Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years

“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.”

Ifs Enough Would Be Values Fighting Company Support Products Source Add Great Things Insane Good Enough Competing Exploits Disruptive Oracles Open Source

Author:Larry Ellison

“American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?”

Ifs Made Would Be Running Today Interest Company Security Example Crisis Financial Ceo Loan Percentages Mortgage Alignment Financial Crisis Stanley American Business Citibank

Author:Aubrey McClendon

“I have an odd fetish with nails. I was always doing beauty blogs about nails, and it would be on Fridays called Fridays Fingertip Fetish. It became so popular that a nail polish company approached me, and Fingertip Fetish was born.”

Would Be Born Company Odd Nails Friday Polish Blogs Fingertips Fetish Nail Polish

Author:Adrienne Bailon

“Money has to undergo a metamorphosis again, it has to relinquish its role in the market economy and engage in an economy of capacities. Then we would be concerned with human creative productivity. And we would come full circle, since each human being can then act within his company as co-creator of the future, can - in full dignity - contribute to shaping this future.”

Humans Would Be Human Beings Company Roles Economy Creative Capacity Concerned Dignity Creator Productivity Circles Metamorphosis Market Economy Full Circle

Author:Joseph Beuys

“Were the only major company in the U.S. that is solely in the professional beauty industry. We promised hairdressers when we started that we would stay with them. If I went retail tomorrow then we would be four times our size overnight, but Im going to be the one guy who kept his word.”

Ifs Would Be Guy Company Four Industry Tomorrow Majors Size Retail Hairdresser Beauty Industry

Author:John Paul DeJoria

“One thing people underestimate is how markets don't allow anyone to do anything except make better and better products. There's not much leeway. The world is a lot more competitive than most people think, particularly in a high-technology area. If a company takes its eye off improving its products, if it tries to do anything that would be viewed as an exercise of power, it'll be displaced very rapidly.”

People Ifs Thinking World Trying Would Be Eye Company Technology One Thing Products Exercise Areas Improving Underestimate High Technology

Author:Bill Gates

“If we [Microsoft Corporation] weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocre company. Fear should guide you, but it should be latent. I have some latent fear. I consider failure on a regular basis.”

People Ifs Should Stills Would Be Fall Easy Behinds Company Bases Speed Guides Corporations Pushing Mediocre Microsoft Great People Hiring Latent

Author:Bill Gates

“Though the world disregard the society of God's children now, yet there is a time coming in which they would be glad to have the least company with them.”

World Children Would Be Company Glad Disregard

Book:Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)

“Providing the best photo sharing experience is one reason why so many people love Facebook and we knew it would be worth bringing these two companies together.”

People Two Reason Would Be Together Company Reason Why Providing

Author:Mark Zuckerberg

“Henry Ford has several times sneered at unproductive stockholders.... Well, now. Let's see. Who made Henry Ford's own automobile company possible? The stockholders who originally advanced money to him. Who makes it possible for you and me to be carried to and from business by train or street car? Stockholders.... Who made our vast telephone and telegraph service possible? Stockholders.... Were stockholders all over the country to withdraw their capital from the enterprises in which they are invested, there would be a panic ... on a scale never before known.”

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Author:B. C. Forbes

“You can picture pretty easily if there were a paying passenger aboard a rocket that failed, like Challenger failed. Certainly it would be a tragedy, and a tragedy for the company. They would have a hard time recovering from it.”

Ifs Hard Would Be Company Tragedy Hard Times Rockets Passengers Recovering

Author:Sally Ride

“No company in the world would be satisfied with less sales, less customers or less jobs just because it's supposed to be good for the environment.”

World Would Be Jobs Company Environment Customers Be Good Satisfied Supposed To Be

Author:Karl-Johan Persson

“We [H&M] believe that growth, profit and sustainability are not contradictory. Our ambition is to be a fair and profitable company, because otherwise we couldn't open any new stores, we couldn't produce new designs and no new jobs would be created. H&M would soon cease to exist.”

Believe Would Be Jobs Growth Company Design Produce Ambition Fairs Profit Stores Cease Sustainability Profitable Contradictory New Job

Author:Karl-Johan Persson

“People don't want to change. It's hard for people to change and it's hard for businesses to change. If I was running an oil company, I would be resistant to change too.”

People Ifs Want Hard Would Be Running Company Oil Oil Companies

Author:Ed Begley, Jr.

“Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“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

“I made very sure that I did not get involved with any of the commercial Linux companies, exactly so that I would be neutral and not ever seen as "working for the competition".”

Made Would Be Company Involved Competition Get Involved Linux

Author:Linus Torvalds

“We are highly committed to international cooperation, development of public-private partnerships. To use the potential of large companies that have already been through the steps that we are taking now would be beneficial for the development of the country's healthcare system”

Country Use Would Be Company Steps Development International Committed Cooperation Healthcare Partnership Beneficial Large Companies International Cooperation

Author:Veronika Skvortsova

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