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“I'm not fit company for man or beast.”

Men Company Fit Beast

Author:Billy Strayhorn

“Somebody asked me 'what's the job of a CEO', and there's a number of things a CEO does. What you mostly do is articulate the vision, develop the strategy, and you gotta hire people to fit the culture. If you do those three things, you basically have a company. And that company will hopefully be successful, if you have the right vision, the right strategy, and good people.”

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Author:Brian Chesky

“Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.”

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Author:Alain de Botton

“They that examine into the Nature of Man, abstract from Art and Education, may observe, that what renders him a Sociable Animal, consists not in his desire of Company, Good-nature, Pity, Affability, and other Graces of a fair Outside; but that his vilest and most hateful Qualities are the most necessary Accomplishments to fit him for the largest, and, according to the World, the happiest and most flourishing Societies.”

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Book:The Fable of the Bees

Source: The Fable of the Bees

“Great fit and synergism for both companies and excellent outcome for employees, customers and shareholders.”

Company Fit Customers Excellent Outcomes Employee Shareholders

Author:Philippe Kahn

“If someone doesn't fit in your company, you have an obligation to get rid of them, because you're holding them back from excelling elsewhere.”

Ifs Company Fit Obligation Elsewhere Wise Women

Author:Barbara Corcoran

“I wish people were more like animals. Animals don't try to change you or make you fit in. They just enjoy the pleasure of your company. Animals aren't conditional about friendships. Animals like you just the way you are. They listen to your problems, they comfort you when you're sad, and all they ask in return is a little kindness.”

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Author:Bill Watterson

“The company-as-a-machine model fits how people think about and operate conventional companies. And, of course, it fits how people think about changing conventional companies: You have a broken company, and you need to change it, to fix it.”

People Thinking Needs Courses Company Broken Fit Models Machines Conventional Need A Change You Need To Change

Author:Peter Senge

“CEOs of top companies could probably use a dose of not-asking-for-raise behavior and less self-entitlement, rather than us trying to change girls in order to fit into the common mold of what we think a CEO looks like.”

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Author:Adora Svitak

“He that neither knows himself nor thinks he can learn of others is not fit for company.”

Thinking Knows Self Company Fit

Book:Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter

Source: Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter

“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

“A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.”

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Book:The Beggar's Opera and Polly

Source: The Beggar's Opera and Polly

“When a record company looks at me I'm very hard to market, I don't really fit anywhere, It's hard to get me on the air, and I'm hard to demography, but! because of that I'm not subject to trends like you pointed out.”

Looks Hard Company Records Air Subjects Like You Fit Trends Look At Me Record Companies Demography

Author:Leo Kottke

“Strategy is all about combining choices of what to do and what not to do into a system that creates the requisite fit between what the environment needs and what the company does.”

Needs Doe Choices Company Environment Fit Strategy Combining

Author:Constantinos C. Markides

“Often they [writers on the study of management] have a point of view based upon intuition and experience. They then offer a cadence of two-paragraph examples carefully selected to "prove" their theory, and then they write "one size fits all" books. The message is, "If you'd do what these companies did, you'd be successful too."”

“This is the entertainment industry, so game designers have to have a creative mind and also have to be able to stand up against the marketing people at their company - otherwise they cannot be creative. There are not that many people who fit that description.”

People Mind Able Games Company Creative Industry Fit Marketing Entertainment Designer Description Be Creative Entertainment Industry Creative Mind

Author:Shigeru Miyamoto

“The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve.”

People World Matter Company Study Like You Fit Standards Tests Performances Population Employee Score Classroom Bells Curves Deviation Test Scores Really Like You

Author:Simon Sinek

“Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer.”

Way Needs May Company Fit Sells Buyers

Author:Margaret Heffernan