“What any manager will try to bring to a company first and foremost is an energy and commitment to the business. To try and really roll your sleeves up.” TryingFirstsEnergyCompanyCommitmentManagersSleeves Author:James Murdoch
“Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.” LongEnergyTermCompanyProduceBuildingPressureFinancialChiefsBoardsLong TermExecutivesExpensesOfficersEarningFinancial MarketsTakeoversChief Executives Author:J. Irwin Miller
“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.” PeopleWorldWantTryingEndsBigsWould BeEnergyChallengesCompanyNiceWillingAmountSpendingBeing NiceExhaustingGet MoneyBig Challenges Author:Darren Aronofsky
“First, the oil and gas business pays its fair share of taxes. Despite the current debate on energy taxes, few businesses pay more in taxes than oil and gas companies. The worldwide effective tax rate for our industry in 2010 was 40 percent. That's higher than the U.S. statutory rate of 35 percent and the rate for manufacturers of 26.5 percent.” FirstsEnergyPayCompanyShareIndustryHigherTaxesPercentFairsRateCurrentsOilDebateDespiteGasFair ShareOil And Gas Author:John S. Watson
“The country that owns green, that dominates that industry, is going to have the most energy security, national security, economic security, competitive companies, healthy population and, most of all, global respect.” CountryEnergyCompanyEconomicSecurityIndustryHealthyGreenPopulationNational SecurityEconomic SecurityEnergy Security Author:Thomas Friedman
“You oil field workers, come and listen to me I'm goin' to tell you a story about old John D. That company union made a fool out of me. That company union don't charge no dues It leaves you a-singing them Rockefeller blues. That company union made a fool out of me. Takes that good ole C.I.O., boys To keep that oil a-rollin', rollin' over the sea. Takes that good ole C.I.O., boys To keep that oil a-rollin' over the sea.” MadeStoriesEnergyCompanyBoysSeaFieldsFoolSingingUnionsWorkersDuesOilAlternativesListen To MeOil Field Author:Woody Guthrie
“I have taken on virtually every element of the big money establishment, whether it's the Koch brothers, and the big energy companies, whether it's the industrial complex, whether it's Wall Street... I have taken on the drug companies. I have taken on the insurance companies.” BigsEnergyCompanyTakenStreetsBrotherWallDrugElementsComplexesEstablishmentInsurance CompaniesDrug Companies Author:Bernie Sanders
“If you wanted to create jobs in a way that has minimal effect on the deficit but has government action, the two best things you could do are the infrastructure bank and a simple SBA-like loan guarantee for all building retrofits, where the contractor or the energy-service company guarantees the savings. So that allows the bank to loan money to let a school or a college or a hospital or a museum or a commercial building unencumbered by debt to loan it on terms that are longer, so you can pay it back only from your utility savings. You could create a million jobs doing that.” IfsWayTwoGovernmentActionWantedSchoolJobsEnergyTermSimplePayCompanyMillionsEffectsBuildingCollegeDebtSavingBest ThingsGuaranteesHospitalsMuseumsInfrastructureDeficitLoanUtilitySavingsContractor Author:William J. Clinton
“Carbon trading engages finance directors. It takes the issue of energy efficiency right to the top of the company.” EnergyCompanyIssuesDirectorsFinanceEfficiencyCarbonTradingEnergy Efficiency Author:Elliot Morley
“Avoid the company of the wicked, those who would do injury to you or to others. Like a disease their energy is something you can catch.” EnergyCompanyBuddhismDiseasePurityWickedInjury Author:Frederick Lenz
“When we think about immigration, we have to understand there are folks all around the world who still see America as the land of promise. And they provide us energy, and they provide us innovation. And they start companies like Intel and Google, and we want to encourage that.” ThinkingWorldWantStillsAmericaEnergyCompanyLandPromiseInnovationFolksImmigrationAround The WorldGoogle Author:Barack Obama
“And our size: The company this year is going to be close to $50 billion, so if that's the case and you can continue to grow that fast, I would rather put my energies to solving customer problems and growing our business than worrying about integrating and laying people off.” PeopleIfsYearsProblemEnergyGrowsCompanyCasesWorryEconomyGrowingSizeCustomersBillionsIntegrating Author:Kevin B. Rollins
“If you work at an insurance company that sells premiums you wouldn't even sell to your mother, how happy would you feel to work there? It's going to eat you up. It might last a few years, but it doesn't attract the best people, and it certainly doesn't create the energy and engagement you need to be a long-term performing company.” PeopleIfsNeedsFeelsYearsLongMightLastsMotherEnergyTermCompanySellsPerformingLong TermEngagementInsurance Companies Author:Paul Polman
“Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.” MenYearsBigsEnergyCompanyTakenHe ManMen And WomenVoteCongressCampaignsDonationSubsidies Author:Bill McKibben
“I can tell you, Massachusetts, fastest growing sector of our economy is clean energy and energy efficiency companies. And they're growing faster than any other sector.” I CanPoliticsEnergyCompanyEconomyGrowingCleanClimate ChangeFasterEfficiencyMassachusettsClean EnergyEnergy Efficiency Author:John F. Kerry
“When a nanotech company matures and becomes a real business, it becomes something else. It becomes a biotech company or a cleantech company or a memory chip company. Nanotechnology has fueled the core innovations in electronics and energy.” RealEnergyMemoriesCompanyInnovationCoreChipsElectronicsNanotechnologyBiotech Author:Steve Jurvetson
“I pick my feature film battles very carefully. They're going to be personal and they're going to take a lot of my energy. I'm not going to be some big production company and be Jerry Bruckheimer or something like that. It doesn't interest me.” BigsFilmEnergyInterestCompanyBattlePicksProductionsFeaturesJerry Author:James Cameron